Kensho Godchaser has done it again. It seems there is always a posting over there that talks directly to me. Today’s is This Day Our Daily Goddess, which is full of suggestions for connecting with the Goddess everyday, not just once or twice a month. In a similar vein, I recently read Dianne Sylvan’s The Circle Within: Creating a Wiccan Spiritual Tradition, an excellent book about creating a daily spiritual practice. This is something I would dearly love to do, and about which I have been thinking about more and more. But… (and there is always a but) I keep…
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I’ve had a sort of epiphany today. I’ve sort of been working on two tracks lately (well, actually more, but only these two apply here). First, like everyone, I’m working to know myself better. It is sort of the whole simple abundance, authenticity sort of thing. I haven’t been particularly successful, but I’m making headway. The second track is studying Crowley, the Thoth Tarot, and the Qabalah. It is a little bit heavy, and I don’t really understand everything, but things are starting to fall into place. Well, this morning as I am reading Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self…
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I’m very sad and disappointed today. Kaatryn MacMorgan, the head of Universal Eclectic Wicca (UEW) and the Coven of the Far Flung Net (CFFN) has decided to shut down CFFN. In her email to the members of CFFN, she seemed to me to say that she didn’t like that the teaching covens of CFFN were being used to create families and support groups. I can see how this is a problem if carried to an extreme, but in my Clan the family atmosphere helped us to learn more from each other. Quite frankly, I think I learned just as much…
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I think to be a really spiritual person that one needs to engage in a certain amount of self-discovery. But when does it turn from healthily introspection to unhealthy navel gazing? A myriad of books are dedicated to helping the reader discover their true selves, their full potential, and their true calling. But while we are sitting in our living room reading these books, how much are we really doing? I also wonder about the methods presented in these books. Sure, they may have worked for the author, but who is to say they will work for us. I think…
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I recently was introduced to Raven Grimassi’s The 13 Goals of a Wiccan by a friend. To say I was amused is putting it lightly. Here I thought that my goals as a Wiccan were to honour nature, the divine and myself. I guess I was wrong. According to Mr. Grimassi, I’m supposed to be curing disease, speaking with spirits, and having power over wild beasts. I must be a pretty sad Wiccan then, since I can’t even get my cat to obey me. Why would anyone consider these things goals of a Wiccan? Since when is our religion about…
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Not to long ago, I watched all fourteen episode of Dead Like Me in the span of a couple of days. (For those who don’t know what Dead Like Me is, it is a show about a girl who dies and becomes a reaper. It’s great black humour.) I really enjoyed the show. The episodes were funny, but they were also touching. And they made me think… mostly about death. I have always been a little afraid of death. My maternal grandmother died when I was three. When I was nine, my friend Andrew Warburton got lost in the woods…
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I had an interesting conversation with an online friend this weekend. He said, more or less, that I intimidated him because I seemed so deep and spiritual. Boy was I shocked. Those are not two worlds I would use to describe myself. Spiritual people, to me, don’t get bogged down in daily life like I do. I see them as being above all those little daily disappointments. Spiritual people are also able to make their desires and goals come true, or at least develop and implement plans that will lead the fulfillment of those goals. I would like to be…
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I’ve been at total lose ends lately because I haven’t had a project to work on. Actually, now that I think about it, that isn’t really true. I’ve had a lot of projects (cross stitch database, studying Tarot, my main site, etc.) but they were all for me, so they just don’t seem all that important. (Now that’s something to think about…) Anyway, I have finally found a project to work on! During a rather lengthy chat with a leadership member of CFFN, we got to talking about the lack of depth in some of the lessons. The lessons themselves…
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I’ve always wished I was really good at something. I guess everyone has. I just can’t figure out what it is that I want to be good at, or that I can be good at. On some level, I’d like my skill to be something I can use to make money. I think it is reasonable to want to be able to support myself with a talent… that, or wishful thinking. But, on the other hand, I’d like it to be something neat, like being really good at Flight Sim, or reading Tarot cards exceptionally well, or something like that.…
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I’ve been meaning to comment on this article since I first read it. In a nut shell, the author says that if someone isn’t out of the broom closet and in the public eye, then they are a “fair weather witch.” I am somewhat offend that the author feels she can judge other people in this way. If she feels that she can best express her faith by being an activist, then that is wonderful. But that does not mean that is the best way for you or me to express our faith. There can be many reasons a person…