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erverFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
From a distance, it seems magical, as if those mighty fish are flying, conquering their element. In actuality, they are deeply at one with their element
This is from yesterday, (Sunday), but I didn't get a chance to type it up, I was too engrossed in reading and typing, and when I looked at the clock, it had already gone midnight, so I decided to wait until today to type it up.
I think this is going to be a short entry – just a few observations to make and such like, but every time before that I say such a thing I run off at the 'mouth' and the entry somehow becomes long.
I've come to the conclusion, in making the first steps to reconnect with Wicca as an integral part of me, that I'm a very 'old fashioned' Wiccan. I found myself horrified today when noticing a pagan group reminding people that their open circle for Samhain was tonight (30th October). Instantly the big shaky finger in my head was dancing up and down, and I'm trembling at the thought of never on a rising tide - that is, you don't celebrate something before it's time… only on or after. It's what I was always taught. You never can be quite sure what the incoming tide will bring, and so… awaiting its arrival is right and proper. Of course that becomes problematical unless one is mathematically minded enough, and knows enough about astronomy to discard the Gregorian calendar altogether – which in case you wondered… I'm not. LOL I make light of it, but… it disturbed me a little bit that I should seem so inflexible and 'traditional/old school/whatever you want to call it.'
The other observation to share and continue to consider, is one that I made, and was then affirmed by Mir as she showered the other day (see… I think showers are great places for thinking), is the thought that maybe in 'abandoning' my faith, I somehow shut off to the part of me I've been searching for for years… like it abandoned me in some way. I will consider this as I begin my babystep journey back to The Mother and the Old Ones.
What people have forgotten
is what every salmon knows.
--Robert Clark
From a distance, it seems magical, as if those mighty fish are flying, conquering their element. In actuality, they are deeply at one with their element
This is from yesterday, (Sunday), but I didn't get a chance to type it up, I was too engrossed in reading and typing, and when I looked at the clock, it had already gone midnight, so I decided to wait until today to type it up.
I think this is going to be a short entry – just a few observations to make and such like, but every time before that I say such a thing I run off at the 'mouth' and the entry somehow becomes long.
I've come to the conclusion, in making the first steps to reconnect with Wicca as an integral part of me, that I'm a very 'old fashioned' Wiccan. I found myself horrified today when noticing a pagan group reminding people that their open circle for Samhain was tonight (30th October). Instantly the big shaky finger in my head was dancing up and down, and I'm trembling at the thought of never on a rising tide - that is, you don't celebrate something before it's time… only on or after. It's what I was always taught. You never can be quite sure what the incoming tide will bring, and so… awaiting its arrival is right and proper. Of course that becomes problematical unless one is mathematically minded enough, and knows enough about astronomy to discard the Gregorian calendar altogether – which in case you wondered… I'm not. LOL I make light of it, but… it disturbed me a little bit that I should seem so inflexible and 'traditional/old school/whatever you want to call it.'
The other observation to share and continue to consider, is one that I made, and was then affirmed by Mir as she showered the other day (see… I think showers are great places for thinking), is the thought that maybe in 'abandoning' my faith, I somehow shut off to the part of me I've been searching for for years… like it abandoned me in some way. I will consider this as I begin my babystep journey back to The Mother and the Old Ones.
