Changing Paths blogging challenge 2023
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Where I am now
Read more: Where I am nowChanging Paths challenge day 31 — where I am now Nowadays I am fairly and squarely a Pagan and an inclusive polytheist Wiccan, but one who has been enriched by my wobble. I gained many good friends, sorted out my anger and fears, and learned new spiritual techniques and concepts. I’ve written four books (All…
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Reflections
Read more: ReflectionsChanging Paths challenge day 30 — reflections. The most amazing autobiography I have ever read was Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung. It discusses how he arrived at his psychoanalytical theory — but the bits I found most fascinating were about his childhood and his occult experiences.
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Memories
Read more: MemoriesChanging Paths challenge day 29—memories. One of my earliest memories is looking up at the constellation of Orion. I’ve always loved it. This amazing photo of Orion is from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. In the early days of the internet I used to visit this site every day. I should get back into…
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At the crossroads
Read more: At the crossroadsChanging Paths challenge day 28 — the crossroads “Only one heart had to find its true position and travel on from there and all the rest would follow, for no matter how isolated the one felt itself to be, in the deeps of all life all were united and no one could move accurately without…
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Change
Read more: ChangeChanging Paths challenge day 27: change My favourite times of year are the transitional seasons of spring and autumn, when everything is changing rapidly. In spring there are new blossoms and new leaves emerging, and the days lengthen rapidly. In autumn, the leaves turn red and yellow and orange and are blown away in the…
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Wobbling
Read more: WobblingChanging Paths challenge day 26 — wobbling Spiritual wobbles can happen when your spiritual path becomes out of synch with your religious community. They can be dry spells, when it feels as if the source of your spiritual life has dried up, or the wobble can propel you out of your old path and into…
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Wandering
Read more: WanderingChanging Paths challenge day 25 — wandering Wandering, like wavering and wondering, is a good thing. There is a whole genre of songs in German called Wanderliede, about hiking. And as JRR Tolkien wisely remarked, not all those who wander are lost.
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Wonder
Read more: WonderChanging Paths challenge day 24 — wondering. There’s wondering in the sense of asking questions about the nature of things, and then there’s wonder in the sense of amazement.
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Longing, Sehnsucht
Read more: Longing, SehnsuchtChanging Paths challenge day 23 — longing. There are various words in other languages that can be approximately translated as longing or yearning. Sehnsucht (German), a longing for a person or a place. Saudade (Portuguese), melancholic longing for a person or a place. Hiraeth (Welsh), a longing for home, possibly unattainable since we cannot revisit…
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Check your baggage
Read more: Check your baggageChanging Paths: unexamined baggage🧳 🎒💼👝👜 This is an excerpt from my book, ‘Changing Paths’: “Changing your religious or spiritual path can result in unexamined spiritual, emotional, and intellectual baggage from your previous tradition, which can cause all sorts of issues from depression to anger. We all need to unpack and deal with our unexamined baggage.…
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We are family
Read more: We are familyChanging Paths challenge day 21 — family There are two types of family — the one you were born into, and the one you choose. If your birth family is problematic for some reason, you can create your own.
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Seven fires
Read more: Seven firesChanging Paths blogging challenge day 20: hopes and fears. When I chose this prompt, I was thinking of the position in the solar cross Tarot spread that corresponds to hopes and fears. But now, with the news that we will be crossing the 1.5°C global warming threshold in the next few years, I’m reminded of…
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Jungian dreams
Read more: Jungian dreamsChanging Paths challenge day 19 — dreams. Once I dreamed that I was walking across a rocky sandy landscape (the bedrock was reddish sandstone) and saw an old church.
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To the library!
Read more: To the library!Changing Paths challenge 18 — throwback Thursday. This was my local library when I was a kid. It’s where I discovered Greek mythology, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Mary Stewart’s Arthurian trilogy, Robin Hood, Roger Lancelyn-Green, Geoffrey Trease, Henry Treece, and many more. I was introduced to Cynthia Harnett by a teacher at…
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Deep magic
Read more: Deep magicChanging Paths challenge day 17 — deep magic The deepest magic that I know is love. Not sacrificial love, not romantic love, but the everyday magic of connection, nourishing and soul-satisfying.
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