I wasn’t expecting it to hurt. After totality, after the Diamond Ring dazzled us, after the first light began to fade back in … it was just the same, sorry old world it was before, and it felt kind of awful, to be honest. Like … we saw this amazing thing, and everyone cheered and […]
Silvering light surrounds usas we wait for the momentEach subtle movement softly encroachingLike tentative loversreaching for each otherSun and moon one fleshfor this short whileSuddenly there’s OtherWorldly twilightSuddenly night drops like a stoneThere’s a ring in the sky, signaling silenceBringing the heart-light homeThe towering trees quakingalmost lit from withinas the fading sun beginsto soften for
There’s a beautiful tradition about the Goddess Brighid (Celtic Minerva) that I try to observe as often as I can. On the night before Imbolc, which is generally observed on February 1 so the night of January 31, she walks the land, spreading her blessing over the fields and through the homes, touching all the
My inbox overfloweth with promotions for dealing with holiday stress and depression. Again. Covid may have done us a few favors, really. Maybe what it did was help us, by forcing us to stay the hell home for a year, to learn that the holidays, as celebrated in Materialist-Dominator Culture, are really not all they
It’s the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Autumnal Equinox for our friends in the Southern. Happy Equality Day, everybody! There, I fixed it. I have been ranting for … a couple years now about this whole Equinox binary story, and I just realized this morning that this holiday has been celebrated
What would happen if, instead of a boy, the Earth-Mother’s Solstice birthing produced a girl? I have a fuzzy idea of where that thought came from, but I don’t think it really matters. What matters is, what would happen if we ran the cycle of the year through cooperative, feminine power instead of dominating male
I am so thankful that I get to decide how I’m going to observe the holidays. So many people are at the mercy of family. “You have to come, it’s Thanksgiving/Christmas/birthday/whatever! How can you even think of not showing up for this?” Or litany of your choice, really. We are cajoled, bullied, guilt-tripped, emotionally blackmailed,
If you have been following this blog a bit, you will probably have noticed that I’m not a fan of the binary. But Midsummer Solstice is about duality, in the coolest way. I love the Yin-Yang symbol, partly because it’s such a graceful image, but also because of what it represents. There’s no straight line
For years now, I have been reposting what I wrote years ago for the Solar Holiday Cycle instead of writing anything new, but those of you who have been following this blog know that I am starting to have a bit of a re-think on all of that stuff. We’re not in the Mesolithic anymore,
As a genderqueer person, I have been struggling for several years with the strong binary of the Pagan holidays. Yes, I tell myself, they are about fertility and making food (and making people) and one needs both ends of the spectrum to do that. Absolutely. It’s not like none of the Celtic gods and goddesses
