Blessings Darlings!
Today’s installment in my series on ‘oft bandied about Wiccan/Neopagan sayings’ is “Wicca/witchcraft/paganism is a path of personal responsibility.” Oh, you’ll find that all sorts of folks mention that it’s part of the path, investing one line or two – maybe even one paragraph! – to the concept, but then you look at what happens in almost every online esoteric group …
Blessings Darlings!
Maybe I should blog on some of these, maybe not. So I’m just giving short work on these topics right now:
Blessings Darlings!
You KNOW it’s true: damn near every online Pagan group has constant posts of animals and people claiming that the animals/pets are their familiars. Such posts take up a huge amount of bandwidth (I’m so old that I remember when that mattered). So let’s start with what a familiar spirit is and what its traditional functions are.
Blessings Darlings!
The oft-bandied about Wiccan phrase we’re looking at today is “Perfect Love and Perfect Trust”.
Can imperfect people do anything perfectly? And … love and trust in who or what?
Let’s start with an easier part of this.
John Beckett recently wrote a blog which tangentially touched on two things I want to expand on here: the way neopagans Romanticize the world of Fairy and experiencing a place in Fairy that seemed much like modern America. I think that both of these points deserve some discussion and that they tie together so it makes sense to tackle them together. I do want to preface this by saying that while I…
Today I am going to offer a translation piece I did from the Ulster Cycle, a look at Scathach’s words to Cu Chulainn when he left her training to return to Ireland.
Incipiunt uerba Scathaige fri Con Culainn oc scarad doib isna rannuib tair. Ro scaith do Choin Culainn lanfogluim in milti la Scaithaigh. Do aurchechain Scathach do iarum ind ni arad m-biad, con-eipirt friss tria imbass for ossna….
Blessings Darlings!
Alternative title: Have you paid your debts?
Today I’m looking at another phrase commonly quoted at folks in the NeoPagan community. “The Three Fold Law.” Which folks tend to think of as a bean counter computer in the sky that automatically returns to you what you send back, three times over. In fact, tho’…
I may be cynical
but I have earned it
so I laugh
I do
when I hear people
talking about
the Good People
being drawn by wind chimes
and shiny baubles
although I probably said
much the same once myself.
I shake my head
at the idea
that They wish us
nothing but well.
Cynical, yes
sharp as a thorn prick
coated in blood
sharp as salt heavy…
Blessings Darlings!
Since I am dreading and thus putting off blogging about the Wiccan Rede … this seems like a great time to talk about the Vice of Malkuth “Inertia”, since I’m experiencing it. But as long as I’m here, I’ll look at the other vice of Malkuth as well.
You might not know …
Blessings Darlings!
This is the first in what will be (I hope) a multi-post series on phrases from Wicca bandied about in the neopagan community.
While Wicca is primarily an orthopraxic mystery religion, it has a few phrases that are quoted y some as orthodoxy. One of them …