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. …..
When a new ProtoGrove is formed, one of their tasks is to come up with a name that will represent them and become their identity. Read their stories
How do we actually create the cosmos for use in ritual that describes the process of creation through sacrifice? Make a giant gingerbread man cookie, of course!
This song started with a moment of insight about how, in the unfortunately many memorials I’ve attended, the living become stories of our friends, and those stories can gain mythic quality the further from directly being there they get.
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Communication with the deities is a constant among all societies and religions. How we establish that communication, though, can be radically different between cultures and religions, or it can be remarkably similar. The Hittites both understood and expected that their deities would speak with them on a regular basis. Revelation and divination were not uncommon, and this forms the basis of this article.
Traditional Pagan ritual was/is centered on the making of material offerings to the Gods and Spirits. The business of pouring flammables or food into the fire, of dropping silver into the earth forever, of viewing incense as a burnt offering and not just a way to perfume the space were not a part of early Neopagan ritual, though they were central to ancient Pagan ways.
By keeping a garden and small homestead, I’ve finally developed an understanding of the three harvest festivals. Whereas early on in my pagan path the Summer Cross Quarter, Autumn Equinox, and Autumn Cross Quarter all seemed to blend together, and be arbitrarily designated as “harvest festivals,” now I’ve learned to see and honor their differences.