Paganism
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Pagan Roots — available now
Read more: Pagan Roots — available now“Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred,” by Yvonne Aburrow. Available now from 1000Volt Press via books2read.com/paganroots Cover art by Lydia Knox. “Pagan Roots: Reclaiming concepts of the sacred” will be published on 22 April 2025 and available from all online stores. Contemporary Paganism has sought to recover some concepts that were lost or rejected…
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High control covens
Read more: High control covensThere’s a new article from Storm Faerywolf on The Wild Hunt today talking about the warning signs of high control groups and covens. Members of these damaged covens are often instructed not to socialize with others outside the group, or lineage, or are otherwise told certain individuals to avoid. Information is often restricted; leadership oftentimes…
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A healing journey
Read more: A healing journeyA new book from Moss Matthey, An apostate’s guide to witchcraft: finding freedom through magic, explores his personal journey from fundamentalist Christianity to witchcraft. Moss writes: This book is about my journey from a fundamentalist Christian cult to the joyous and freeing world of Witchcraft. Blending my personal experience with gentle exercises, this book is for anyone who is…
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People I admire
Read more: People I admireChanging Paths challenge day 28. People I admire. (This is by no means a complete list of people I admire. Some of the people I admire are not famous but have spent a lifetime doing a thing in an admirable way.)
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Movies and TV
Read more: Movies and TVChanging Paths challenge day 27: movies and TV. Movies and TV that changed my mind / blew my mind.
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Colours
Read more: ColoursChanging Paths Challenge day 26: colours For today’s challenge, I’ve pulled up my article about the colours of Paganism from my blog, Dowsing for Divinity. Green is the colour everyone immediately associates with Paganism. It is the colour of nature, of trees, and all growing things. It is associated with the Green Man, a symbol…
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Books
Read more: BooksChanging Paths challenge day 25: books 📚 I love reading books. I love writing books. I love talking about books. I love having a to-be-read pile. I love rereading books that I have enjoyed. A book is a little world and its characters are mirrors you can hold up, and try identifying with them to…
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Festivals
Read more: FestivalsChanging Paths challenge day 23: Festivals I love Pagan festivals and I am very glad that there’s one every six weeks or so, as it takes the pressure off of Yule. If you only celebrate Yule and Easter (and Thanksgiving in North America), there’s so much pressure to get it right and have a good…
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Time
Read more: TimeChanging Paths challenge 19: Time 🕰️ ⏰ Humans haven’t always thought of time as linear. A cyclical view of time seems to me to be more in tune with Nature. Many cultures see time as cyclical, or as a set of interlocking cycles: the cycle of the sun, the moon, the stars, the rotation of…
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Reconnecting
Read more: ReconnectingChanging Paths challenge day 5: Reconnecting Reconnecting with your spirituality when you feel uninspired, or heartbroken. Heartbroken at the multiple genocides, wars, massacres, injustices happening in the world. Heartbroken over climate catastrophe and species destruction.
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Peace
Read more: PeaceChanging Paths challenge day 3. Peace. Deep within the still centre of my beingMay I find peace.Silently within the quiet of the GroveMay I share peace.Gently, powerfully, within the greater circle of humankindMay I radiate peace. — Druid prayer for peace (OBOD)
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Reblog: Why I like being a Pagan
Read more: Reblog: Why I like being a PaganThere was some part of me that almost craved a sense of wonder and magic — something existing just beyond the humdrum of everyday life — all my life. I remember being a kid and imagining that I could feel the flow of magical energy all around me.
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Blogging challenge 2024
Read more: Blogging challenge 2024I’m starting the Changing Paths blogging / photo challenge. Take part and use the hashtag #changingpathschallenge2024 to be in with a chance to win a copy of Changing Paths. Subscribe to this blog, Changing Paths, or to the Dowsing for Divinity blog, to be in with a chance to win. Feel free to write poetry,…
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