Pagan Corner

[curious2c]

Just a note...my family, while not being or following my path, have been quite...patient with me. Last night I was talking to my youngest son...and he is now wanting to know more about my belief's and how I apply them to my daily life.

This is the first any of them have shown an interest beyond basic things. He sounds like he wants to follow a path similar to mine now. Considering he wants to be so different from me most of the time...I am a bit surprised by his need to know.


Merry meet all...happy Yule to one and all as well.

 

[Guest]

Just a note...my family, while not being or following my path, have been quite...patient with me. Last night I was talking to my youngest son...and he is now wanting to know more about my belief's and how I apply them to my daily life.

This is the first any of them have shown an interest beyond basic things. He sounds like he wants to follow a path similar to mine now. Considering he wants to be so different from me most of the time...I am a bit surprised by his need to know.


Merry meet all...happy Yule to one and all as well.

That's so great. To know your beliefs are embraced by a child of yours particularly if he's been pulling away.

I don't know much about Paganism - I'm atheist - but it's what I myself would embrace if I had to choose. A gentle and peaceful belief.

 

[Grizzman]

Here's one Grizz. Basically it states that the Earth is single living Organism. And while humans are tearing Her to shreds at an alarming rate, she will not be destroyed but instead continue to adapt just like She has been for billions of years before we were around.

We will never kill the Earth, we will only kill ourselves. Sooner or later we'll just cease to exist but the earth will go on


http://www.oceansonline.com/gaiaho.htm

Thanks for the link
While I'm not sold on the single living organism thing, I totally believe that we'll all be gone before the earth is.
Let me read what's there so I can better understand.

 

[Mae13]

How wonderful c2c! It must be the season. While I have never been one to hide my faith, it seems like recently quite a few of my friends "just figured it out" and have been asking me about it. I guess I'm the first pagan out of the broom closet they've met, so I get all the questions! It's fun though, and I am glad to realize that those I have entrusted true friendship to don't hold a different spiritual path against anyone.

I loved your story about giving your daughter away, btw!

*hugs*

 

[curious2c]

That's so great. To know your beliefs are embraced by a child of yours particularly if he's been pulling away.

I don't know much about Paganism - I'm atheist - but it's what I myself would embrace if I had to choose. A gentle and peaceful belief.

I have been reading quite a bit...and Paganism has not always been gentle and peaceful. However, it had the makings to be such, and over time it has followed through on those makings.

I embrace it for several reasons, but one of the most was a belief that a singular male God...just doesn't fit...why create man, then a woman...in his image? If there had to be a woman...then where is Mrs. God?

Nature...circle complete...male and female. It's the way it is.
That my son is asking and trying to learn...warms my heart. I try to be careful to not imply anything against other religions too. It is for him to decide his path. All my children must do that on their own.

 

[curious2c]

How wonderful c2c! It must be the season. While I have never been one to hide my faith, it seems like recently quite a few of my friends "just figured it out" and have been asking me about it. I guess I'm the first pagan out of the broom closet they've met, so I get all the questions! It's fun though, and I am glad to realize that those I have entrusted true friendship to don't hold a different spiritual path against anyone.

I loved your story about giving your daughter away, btw!

*hugs*

Thank you Mae...I too have been getting asked questions at work and by aqauintences as well. It seems that the curiousity is not only with me.

 

[gypsywitch]

The wheel is turnin and it can't slow down

you can't let go and you can't hold on

you can't go back and you can't stand still

if the thunder don't get ya then the loghtning will

 

[dragonhearted]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[gypsywitch]

round round robin run around

gotta get back to where you belong

a little bit farther, just a little bit more

a little bit further than you've gone before

 

[Grizzman]

round round robin run around

gotta get back to where you belong

a little bit farther, just a little bit more

a little bit further than you've gone before

I was thinkin' more along the lines of
nine hundred thousand tons of steel, out of control.
she's more a roller coaster than the train I used to know.

 

[gypsywitch]

awww... we miss Brent, good memories


Its has been quite a year hasn't it grizzman.

 

[Grizzman]

awww... we miss Brent, good memories


Its has been quite a year hasn't it grizzman.

And no signs of slowing down.
This tunnels so long you wonder if there's light at the end or if it just ends.

 

[dragonhearted]

gypsy...why do I hear music in the rhymes you have posted? I have never heard the words before...*scratches her head*

 

[Grizzman]

gypsy...why do I hear music in the rhymes you have posted? I have never heard the words before...*scratches her head*

Too much radio has that effect.

 

[gypsywitch]

Deadhead central

big wheel turns by the fire and rod

big wheel turns by the grace of God

every time that wheel turns 'round

you're bound to cover just a little more ground

BOUND to cover...

just a little more ground

 

[Grizzman]

Chorus:
The wheel is turnin and it can't slow down

you can't let go and you can't hold on

you can't go back and you can't stand still

if the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will

 

[gypsywitch]

goin' 'round n' 'round

so on a different note ~

when designing costumes we have the choice of silver or gold when it comes to metals

gold being masculine, the sun, energy, and wealth

silver is more feminine, the moon, receptivity, and just getting by without being poor

of course I'm speaking of tones more than the actual pure metals, especially since its pressed into fabrics

my real coin jewelry headpiece, neckpiece and belt are a blend of tones with coins from a variety of countries

anything that is desert or lower-class is strictly silver, but with a stronger tendancy towards embroidery and interesting fabrics as the wealth

when in temple proestess mode its gold all the way

 

[Grizzman]

Never thought of it that way. I like silver tones better personally, but then I am a virgo. It tends to agree with my pale demeanor better. Plus, it highlights jewels more accurately (when talking jewelry)

 

[dragonhearted]

Re: goin' 'round n' 'round

gold being masculine, the sun, energy, and wealth

silver is more feminine, the moon, receptivity, and just getting by without being poor

*wonders what copper stands for*

 

[gypsywitch]

Because Copper is one of the oldest metals used by humans, it has played an important role in mythology. Its primary use has been as a specified metal in rituals, but it has also represented the Greek God Venus and to the Greeks, it could protect against evil and attract love.

http://www.jewelrysupplier.com/2_copper/copper_mythology.htm

 

[ExistentialLuv]

Walt Whitman~ A Woman Waits For Me

A Woman waits for me—she contains all, nothing
is lacking,
Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the
moisture of the right man were lacking.


Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery,
the semitic milk,
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,
All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the
earth,
All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of
the earth,
These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and
justifications of itself.

Without shame the man I like knows and avows the
deliciousness of his sex,
Without shame the woman I like knows and avows
hers.

 

[ExistentialLuv]

Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with
those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me:

I see that they understand me, and do not deny me:
I see that they are worthy of me—I will be the robust
husband of those women.

They are not one jot less than I am,
They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and
blowing winds,

Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,

They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run,
strike, retreat, advance, resist,defend themselves,

They are ultimate in their own right—they are calm,
clear, well-possess'd of themselves.

I draw you close to me, you women!
I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our
own sake, but for others' sakes;

Evelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me:

It is I, you women—I make my way,
I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but I love you,
I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for
These States—I press with slow rude muscle,

I brace myself effectually—I listen to no entreaties,
I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long
accumulated within me.

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me
and America,

The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and ath-
letic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,

The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in
their turn,

I shall demand perfect men and women out of my
love-spendings,

I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I
and you interpenetrate now,

I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of
them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing
showers I give now,

I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death,
immortality, I plant so lovingly now.

 

[dragonhearted]

Because Copper is one of the oldest metals used by humans, it has played an important role in mythology. Its primary use has been as a specified metal in rituals, but it has also represented the Greek God Venus and to the Greeks, it could protect against evil and attract love.

hmmmmmmmmmmm....every zodiac sign has it's own metal. Cancer has silver, Gemini has mercury....and Libra has copper (I am a Libra).

 

[Spirit Guide]

hmmmmmmmmmmm....every zodiac sign has it's own metal. Cancer has silver, Gemini has mercury....and Libra has copper (I am a Libra).

I wonder if that's why I find copper so fascinating

 

[dragonhearted]

I wonder if that's why I find copper so fascinating

absolutely! when I was an adolescent I began my fascination with it. Mom had copper wire and made me a ring with abalone shell glued on it...she made jewelry at that time. I also began loving opals (my birthstone)

I have had a fascination with silver for the last few years, but I will always be drawn to copper.