Somehow over the past year this has changed from a blog about my life and my spiritual pursuits to a blog about my knitting, cross stitch and crochet. See, the sad thing is I’m not sure I have much in the way of spiritual pursuits any more. Between watching/changing/playing with/teaching animal sounds to Baby Man, occasionally knitting or cross stitching to remain sane, doing some work for my old-but-still-current job, and general household things, there is really only time left for sleep. And as important as spiritual pursuits are, when you have a toddler, sleep is more important. Does this…
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The Seeker’s Guide by Elizabeth Lesser is one of the myriad of books that I am currently reading. I read it several years ago when I lived in a different city and was a different person. Now that I am married and have a young child, I’m finding that other parts of the book make sens to me. One of the first chapters discusses spirituality and states that we don’t need to be part of a religion, or to be religious, to be spiritual. I’m not sure if the younger me would have agreed with that, but this older me…
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With the Easter holiday finishing up in most of the Christian world, I decided to ask my family members a couple of questions this weekend. A bit of background first, though. I was raised Christian by parents who are believers but not strong church goers. My maternal grandfather, on the other hand, was a very dedicated Christian; almost a Canadian version of the Fundamentalists that the Americans have. My husband is essentially a lapsed Catholic, and I’m me: mostly Wiccan, and maybe a little bit Agnostic. Anyway, this weekend I asked my family if they believed in the literal divinity…
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I have written in the past about my concerns about channelled books and about information passed on by those who have left the path, but now I’m wondering about those works which clearly contain “bad history” and other things that are widely known to have been disproved. Examples that come to mind here are Margaret Murray‘s works or that good old Ancient Potato Goddess featured in a book on Celtic spirituality published (and obviously not fact-checked) by everyone’s favourite new age publisher. Right now I’m reading The Sacred Tarot, a book published by The Church of Light (an occult organization…
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Over the years that I have been aware of the greater Pagan community, I have seen some relatively well known spokespeople step away from Paganism and declare that their beliefs now lie in another direction. Some do this vocally, and insult Paganism on their way out the door, others do it quietly, making us wonder what caused them to change their minds. When the reason for leaving the community is because the person found a new faith, I am a bit surprised. I think that to be a spokesperson, either through teaching, writing or producing a podcast, one must be…