By Dusty Dionne There is a Goddess of America and her name is Columbia. This is not a witty line portraying a concept. I am not using an analogy to liken the capital to a Divine Mother Figure. I am…
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116 Something I Learned at SMF
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by Mark B. 7/17/2011 This year’s Spring Mysteries Festival was my first SMF, and was as joyous, effortful, transforming, interesting, occasionally traumatic, and fun as I’d hoped. SMF is a large and complex festival, and as such requires each…
116 The Rebels Picnic
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In 1980, the relatively small community of Witches (the term, ‘Wiccan,’ was almost never heard back then) in the greater Seattle area was not just in the closet; it was hiding behind the mops, brooms, piles of rags, and…
116 Musings from the Mother Superior
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Recently I read an interesting statement. In an article about how we as Americans and Westerners obsess about the smallest imperfections in our faces and bodies, the author mentioned how we have learned to focus on bits as opposed…
SpiralScouts Celebrates Ten Years
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2001. A year forever tainted by violence and fear, especially in the United States, but with repercussions felt the world over. But not everything coming out of that year had negative associations. This same year the Aquarian Tabernacle Church decided…
Io Eleusis! Reflections from Spring Mysteries
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By Jamie Freeman This extended Easter weekend, instead of eating a ham dinner with my family, I spent my time at Ft. Flagler on the tip of the Washington peninsula near the San Juan Islands, where we re-enacted and re-interpreted…
Words to the Wise
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I have watched Wicca face many challenges over the years. We have accomplished much. We have received recognition as a valid religion. The IRS has granted church status to some Wiccan groups. We have festivals all over the US—traveling far…
Ostara Words to the Wise
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As I look around me at the awakening earth, I see signs of change. I watch the news and there is change. We all wonder what is coming. We know that things are different on the earth today than they…
Ostara The Laughing Fox
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by: Shawna Jacques (permission granted to print my name as credited) First version originally published at <http://foxipher.livejournal.com> on February 8, 2011 ===================== Internal Rites of Passage Rites of passage seem to be something that much of modern Western society does…