Doreen Valiente
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Thursday, 15Nov2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Six new pages
Friday, 17Aug2018 Filed in: site news⭐︎ beliefs⭐︎ celebrations & passages⭐︎ philosophy⭐︎ rite & ritual⭐︎ sex⭐︎ studies
❝I learned a long time ago that it's worth the trouble to make sure she's got at least two climaxes for every one of mine.
Keeps her smiling too.❞
A book fell on my head
“Thou shalt mind thine own damn business.”— David Weber, Torch of Freedom
Encyclopædia Brittanica gets it wrong
Not once, but twice.
I've been working on version 3 of my lexicon. It's steady work, and helps calm me. I don't write all the definitions, I take clips if I can find well written ones.
So I was looking at Brittanica's Quarter Day page, which actually refers to the Lammas page.
The second mistake is about May Day, and I am pretty sure it's a translation error and misunderstanding about agriculture. I'll just quote my own note here.
I've been working on version 3 of my lexicon. It's steady work, and helps calm me. I don't write all the definitions, I take clips if I can find well written ones.
So I was looking at Brittanica's Quarter Day page, which actually refers to the Lammas page.
““The Quarter Days—Candlemas (February 2), May Day (May 1), Lammas, and All Saints’ Day (November 1)—marked the four quarters of the calendar as observed in the British Isles and elsewhere in northern Europe. ””Every single reference I've ever seen from Valiente forward calls these the cross quarter days, they mark the transitions between the season. The actual quarter days are the solstices and the equinoxes. It helps if you visualize the year as a wheel.
— Encyclopædia Brittanica, Lammas
The second mistake is about May Day, and I am pretty sure it's a translation error and misunderstanding about agriculture. I'll just quote my own note here.
❝Enclyclopædia Britannica has it wrong here, it's a very common mistake. In some European countries especially further north, there were two seasons, winter and summer. May Day traditionally marks the beginning of the growing season, not the beginning of spring. If the summer solstice is midsummer, that makes May Day the beginning of summer.❞I doubt that anyone except a calendar geek or a pagan would have caught it. But when you're both at once, you have to tell people.— NeoWayland, May Day
The magic circle
I've had three deaths in the past month. One a friend, one an uncle, and one person who I did not get along with.
Read More...Cauldron
“The cauldron in fact represented a great step forward in civilization. Before men were able to make metal cooking pots, which would withstand fire, they had to be content with thick earthenware pots, which were heated by the laborious process of dropping very hot stones into them. The metal cauldron, over which the woman as head of the household presided, gave men better cooked food, more plentiful hot water to cleanse themselves, and herbal medicines which could be decocted by boiling or infused in boiling water. Hence the cauldron became an instrument of magic, and especially of women’s magic.”— Doreen Valiente, “Cauldron”, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present
Disconnect
I don't suppose it's really important in the overall scheme of things, but I find it unnerving.
Read More...NeoNotes — A long hard look
❝Sending kids to "get religion" instead of practicing it with them is one of the surest setups for failure I know.❞
Today
Thursday, 04Jan2018 Filed in: celebrations & passages⭐︎ Befores
Seek
Wednesday, 13Dec2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝The question is not which religion or belief set is mainstream, authentic, or even legitimate. Define your faith in those terms and you concede the war.❞— NeoWayland, Faith worthy of freedom
Allowing harm
Wednesday, 28Jun2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“They might add that monotheism is a political and psychological ideology as well as a religious one, and that the old economic lesson that one-crop economies generally fare poorly also applies to the spiritual realm.”— Margot Adler
Sex magick
“Pagan temples are timeworn forests, secluded gardens, sun-kissed seashores and emerald pastures.”— Amelia Dashwood
❝All acts of love and pleasure…❞
Thursday, 17Nov2016 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
“Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.”— Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess
