Changing paths
About the experience of changing paths
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Reblog: Desiring sacred community
My belief that both I and the other are sacred has me focusing more on building and nurturing relationships between the sacred self, sacred others, and the sacred world. I find myself looking more at the importance of community. — Jarred the Wyrd-worker Desiring sacred community: Exploring a journal prompt from chapter 6 of “Changing…
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Reblog: My religious deal-breakers
My religious deal-breakers: Exploring a journal prompt from chapter 5 of “Changing Paths.” Hello readers and happy Friday! Time to tackle another journal prompt from Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow. This week, we’re looking at chapter 5, … Before I start pulling out my “laundry list” and discussing it, I should note that this is…
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Reblog: A weird boy, but definitely a boy
A weird boy, but definitely a boy: Freestyling it again for chapter 4 of “Changing Paths” This Friday, I’ll be blogging some of my thoughts from reading Chapter 4, “Religion and Gender” of Yvonne Aburrow’s book, Changing Paths… It’s been interesting for me as a man primarily dedicated to and working with Freyja. It seems…
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Reblog: Ritual style preferences
Reblogging Jarred the Wyrdworker who is writing blogposts using the prompts from Changing Paths. Ritual style preferences: Exploring a journal prompt from chapter 1 of “Changing Paths” I find all four styles — or at least elements from them — appealing. I certainly like the familiarity of certain liturgical elements whose symbolism and meanings I…
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Review of Changing Paths
A lovely review of Changing Paths by Jarred the Wyrd-Worker: Yvonne Aburrow has provided a helpful guide for people who are considering leaving their religion and either finding a new spiritual home or abandoning religion altogether. Throughout the book, they offer guidance through the process, encouraging the reader to explore and understand what leaves them…
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Repost: Should I stay or should I go?
Should I stay or should I go? Exploring a journal prompt from chapter 2 of “Changing Paths” Excellent post from Jarred reflecting on one of the journal prompts from Changing Paths. Hello dear readers! It’s Friday morning so that means once again exploring a journal prompt from the wonderful book, Changing Paths… Should I stay…
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I’m in the COVR Awards
Hey everyone, I have been nominated for a COVR award for Changing Paths. If you enjoyed it, please vote for it. And also vote for items in other categories that you enjoyed. Vote in the COVR awards 2024
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Reverting to your old path
A helpful article from John Beckett on the type of people who revert out of Pagan traditions and back to their original path. John urges compassion and empathy for people who leave Pagan paths for another religion, and offers suggestions for deepening your understanding of Pagan ideas so that you can avoid reverting.
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We need to talk about miracles
There are many wonderful things that we could classify as miracles: the capacity for love, the beauty of a sunny morning, dew on roses, the ability to paint or compose a masterpiece, and many other natural wonders. Many Pagans believe in healing energies and such; but we tend to regard them as supplementary to conventional…
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In The Magick Kitchen
Check out my conversation with the wonderful Elyse Wells (writer and podcast host) on The Magick Kitchen podcast, series 5, episode 9.
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Where I am now
Changing 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
Changing 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
Changing 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
Changing 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
Changing 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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