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Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.
Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.

Totems I have known

It’s a day of contrasts and promises. Even as winter is at it’s greatest, light is born again.

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Holiday breakfast hit

I do use some Yule traditions. This year I have family obligations which will cut those short a bit. But greeting the dawn all three days is definitely one I keep.

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Fireplace

I joke about it, but that is the heart of it. Or maybe the hearth. It’s the center.

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Midwinter

More and more I think I was wise to separate my pagan blogging from my political blogging.

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Starwell - Solar Festival

I think that a Greater Pagan Community™ for the sake of the institution is a extraordinarily Bad Idea®.
— NeoWayland
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Aside for polyamory - revised

Winter-born that I am, I always like a desert snowfall

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Earth centered

You can see that politics corrupts pretty much any religion, faith, or path you’d care to name.

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A dangerous pagan

No, I am not quite foolish enough to do it on my own. I don’t know enough about explosives and I don’t own an anvil.

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Dusting of Snow

Thinking by blogging

I am a sensualist. I’m telling you this because all too often pagans forget we’re supposed to bridge worlds.

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Political pagans

Usually when ravens group together, it’s up on fences or power lines or rooftops

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Wayland's Feast Day

Sometimes it doesn’t work

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This is the world

Fire good, I grunt only half aloud.

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Unusual Unkindness

Usually when ravens group together, it’s up on fences or power lines or rooftops

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Take the power

Her expression is what sells it.

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One less candle on the mantel

This is not the first controversy with Mr. Day. I do not expect it to be the last. Frankly I don’t care if he is innocent or not. He disrupts.

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Hearthside

After dinner, we move to the kitchen. Easier to sweep up the hair, you see.

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Winter

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season

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Caution - Watch Out

It’s a subtle touch that sets me apart. And yes, it’s a matter of vanity.

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Double Teamed

Rain in the desert is a wonderous thing

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Before the Gate of Winter

But kids (especially BRIGHT teens) know when you’re different. They like different, they’re attracted to it.

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Negative whiskers

Pagans do not “get nekkid” so you can get your jollies.

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The hard rain

They want flashy cheap answers to their problems. In easy to swallow pill form if possible.

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Bend the brains

I have on occasion wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers. Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now to prevent disaster later.
— NeoWayland
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Naked pagans & sex - updated

☓ autumn begins ♁ cross quarter

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Do you know what I get asked about the most?

Going beyond the 101 and even beyond the tradition

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Truthful answers - new site slogan

Construction starts next week

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Autumn

Feeding my tool and pattern obsessions

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Another place I talk Christianity

The cowards do not deserve to be remembered.

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Lughnasadh

I think too many people are into religion for the politics.

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Letter & Spirit

I look into the bowl and wait.

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Outstanding

Have I mentioned that I have a calendar obsession?

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Religion

I think too many people are into religion for the politics.

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Time to scry

NO SOLICITORS
NO RELIGIOUS GROUPS
(This Means You Everyone)
NO PEDDLERS
NO PROBLEMS!
HAVE A SUPER FANTASTIC DAY!
— three minutes and fifteen seconds into the movie Growing Op
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Flexing your calendar

Today is the first day of The Lady in the Court of Stars.

One of these days I really should tell that story. But not today.


No, today I’m going to talk about calendars.

This is a partial list of dates from my Lore and Wyrd calendars. The exact dates don’t matter in this example.

Pay attention to the symbols before the title in each listing.

The
ankh symbol is my shorthand for a Before. Before are those who’ve inspired me and those who I choose to honor by living their example.

The
shadowed star is my shorthand for a pagan.

The
inverted triangle is a symbol for philosophy, I use this to designate philosophers.

The ≠ not equals sign means that I acknowledge but do not celebrate (ABNC). Just because the day is important to other people doesn’t mean that I have to celebrate it. And if you think I have a lot of these days in my Lore and Wyrd calendars, you should see the birthdays and anniversaries in my Kinship calendar.

The
solid star shows that this day that while not distinctively pagan is still important to my practice.

Okay, the
circled times symbol. I don’t want to use the circled cross because of it’s association with the KKK (and yes, my feelings on that go back years). This is a good alternative that maintains the same elemental associations. Of course someone who takes a title based on Wayland is going to celebrate The Firing of the Anvil. Especially someone with strong ties to the American South.

Let’s see how that actually works. As you can see, this is an event from 1971.

The ankh and the inverted triangle tell us that this man is one of my Befores and he’s a philosopher. I’ve used the location field to give more expand the information a bit. This field will also show in the day list view of the iOS calendar or in my preferred option Fantastical.

I’ve included a quick URL so I can call up in-depth information.

I’ve unchecked the “Busy” box so I still show available.

My notes show his lifespan and how old he was when he died.

And I’ve listed some of the things he was known for WITHOUT giving specific works. Otherwise the entry would be way too long and clunky.

The whole purpose of this exercise is that I have a calendar in the palm of my hand that will quickly show me what I need to know for that day.

I haven’t even mentioned my Sky calendar with the astronomical events and symbols.

Have I mentioned that I have a calendar obsession?

Here’s the most important bit.

After the initial setup (and the once a year update on my Sky calendar), I don’t have to worry about it. It’s there. If I absolutely have to I can print it up (and I still do for some events and rituals).

A little bit of work, a little bit of planning, and I’m ready.

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Impress Me

Sun tea

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❝NO PROBLEMS!❞

Suncrest starts tomorrow, it’s my version of midsummer.

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❝A new dogma❞

The secret of watching a solstice sunrise is not to watch the East

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In which I indulge my Southern ancestors

You shouldn’t listen to the folks in the weird clothes and making the loudest noises.

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Suncrest

You take a plot of land. Now you can grow flowers or vegetables or both. You choose.

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Greet the dawn

So Rhyd just made the entry tier of my Watch List.

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Hermit and the noise

It’s like everything Glows Slightly Peach.

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The grand cause

That’s what those trees are for.

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No dissent, or The content of his character

A real man loves strong women, whether as lovers or just as friends, because weak ones are boring, often parasitical, and make the worst exes.
— Isaac Bonewits
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Peachy

I would no more solicit your opinion and approval about that than I would about the color of the trashcan by my clothes dryer.

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Twenty-seven

Dad had hidden talents that would pop up every once in a while.

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❝A real man…❞

My pendants change depending on the moon phase

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Labeling

Summer begins

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Hidden heart of a poet

Time for this semi-hermit to have a party.

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Praxis

It started simply. I wanted a wizard’s hat.

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Shapes in the Moon

This one’s a lusty lass, and not just because she’s nude and very pregnant.

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Summergate

Inspire, don’t require.
     — NeoWayland
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Unbearable fun

It’s not your faith that matters, it’s how you live it.

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Gaia

I mentioned some of my concerns, but their future is full of utopia and collective effort.

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Earth Day & politics

And part of it is just because three is a magick number.

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Hatband experiment

We're made of stars

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Statement on the Environment

The universe is written in mathematics. The Mystery is written in poetry. We're born where the two meet.

At the crossroads.
— NeoWayland, Kissed by the Lady Moon
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Rules of Three

You don’t have to use the Bestest as long as you can just do

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Written at the crossroads

Bright and Dark Blessings to you all

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Bestest

Speaking of the way that one idea links to another, I can’t help but notice a conflict. And a song.

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Convergence

Could it be the biology?

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Do Be Do Be Do

From classic philosophy to classic virtue, Paganism's best hope depends on what we choose to put out in the World - updated

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❝Everything else in the universe❞

Pagan isn't the important part

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Voices

I first started keeping notes in a three ring binder. It worked, sort of, as long as I kept the index up to date.

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Tying thoughts to emotions

I want my blue sky

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Gods make you stretch

Almost four years on this blog and I hadn't answered these questions yet - UPDATED

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Struggle Nobly…

I can't be the white knight. I can only be a friend. I can't be a savior, but I can lend a shoulder and an ear. I can't shield anyone from the cold darkness, but I can share a little body heat under the blanket. I can't bring joy, but I can give a smile.
— NeoWayland
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Keeping notes

You have to believe in dreams, because sometimes they believe in you.
— Simon R. Green, Something From the Nightside
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Sky

And yes, that is a phallus between his legs

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I can't be the white knight

There is an advantage to insomnia.

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❝You have to believe in dreams…❞

People so disconnected from reality that a movie depresses them

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Wild spring

I know what to call Book People now

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Soft snow

If the real difference in people is choosing between the Journey and the Story, does the Journey have to be religious or even spiritual?

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Drop down menus and transferring old content

“”The

Thoughts and feelings

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❝As long as we lie to ourselves…❞

“”The

Yes, it's short. And yes, it's free.

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Four-foot

My friends have always been the best of me.
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Unsent note to a Christian

Check out the new pages at the top.

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Don't mix religion with politics

Just how well did that ritual work?

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Better

A little piece of me - Updated

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New pages

Ready for your homework assignment?

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❝At the end of the day…❞

In the dark and early, I woke my companion with hot chocolate…

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Would you know?

A place among friends

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Feelings

tek NO paa gan TEK no PAA gan

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Experience & Art

Morality ought to be filed under Philosophy, not Religion.
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Spark

“Do you believe, you believe in magic, 'cos I believe, I believe that I do”

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Homework assignment

A little updating

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Glimpse

I'm willing to start at mutual respect. Not everyone is. That creates a problem.

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“But you’re so rational!”

Build them up

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Tuesday

My answer to certain Christian fundys who just happen to be blood relations. Things have gotten better since then. We even talk most of the time.

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Prep Work

I have this thing for snow.

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Seven days

Not official but important

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Semi-hermit

I keep my politics separate from my faith

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Snow Day

Twenty or thirty per minute per tree

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