I often find myself at odds over what to do with the winter solstice. A lot of my fellow pagans are really, really jazzed about the narrative of the light triumphant returning after the longest night, but it just doesn’t do much for me. I get it, of course — the Triumph of the Light is a wide-ranging cultural trope, so I feel a little surge of excited joy when listening to songs about it, or ritual that use the narrative structurally — and I certainly mean no disrespect to anyone for whom the return of the light is a meaningful narrative: I’m very glad for you! But it doesn’t do as much for me, and I think I figured out why.
Rev. Dangler has released a full Class & Study Guide for Magic for Priests from the CTP. Learn along with him in this series.
Join in the yearly practice of the “Twelve Nights of Yule”
Rev. Dangler has released a full Class & Study Guide for Magic for Priests from the CTP. Learn along with him in this series.
Lots of schools are talking about winter holidays with students. Each year I’ve emailed my kids’ teachers with some info about Winter Solstice so that they can include it in their “Winter Holiday Unit” and my kids can feel included. I thought it may be useful to share my email so that others can just steal it, modify it to fit their situation, and send it to their kids’ teachers.
Rev. Dangler has released a full Class & Study Guide for Magic for Priests from the CTP. Learn along with him in this series.
Many end their gardening season at Samhain and leave the land to the Cailleach for the winter. This is a valid approach that likely suits all parties. But for me, In the time between Samhain and Yule, I collect seeds.
Rev. Dangler has released a full Class & Study Guide for Magic for Priests from the CTP. Learn along with him in this series.
The virtuous cycle of *ghosti, the dance of a reciprocity that is not transactional but arises from the relationships that form our context and, in a very real way, our selfhood, applies to all of our relationships.
Greetings! Welcome to the first of a series of twelve “ADF 40th Anniversary Year” activities. For the next 12 months, we would like to engage the membership in producing creative activities around ADF’s 40th Anniversary. …..