This is a response to Yeshe Rabbit's post about the conflict between trans gender and cis gender women at PantheaCon this year. This isn't the first time the issue has come up at PantheaCon. The Wild Hunt has more background.

Disclaimer: I'm cis-gendered and I wasn't at PantheaCon this year. Having said that, I'm afraid that this blog post sounds ( Read more... )

This conversation started with a quote of the Religion News Service on the Wild Hunt. The subject was the Unitarian Universalist Association and an article by Daniel Burke about the denomination. The headline asked "Can a creedless religion make it another 50 years?". Despite the provocative headline, the article was billed as a news story. (In ( Read more... )

This was originally a reply to a blog post entitled Self-Respect: Come to Your Success by Pagan mystic and teacher Thorn Coyle.

For me the biggest obstacles to coming to my success are old commitments and convictions that I've outgrown. Take my bedroom curtains for example.

My current level of success means I have less time and more money but I ( Read more... )

The instructions for tomorrow's Druid ritual in Menlo Park are to bring a poem or song. So I wrote a prose poem today at work.

Lughnasad: Taking StockHummingbirds feast ( Read more... )

Discussing the Tube strike one of my co-workers linked to a site that allows you to map walking routes in central London. I tried it and found out that at a medium pace my walking commute would take 5 hours. Not happening, then. The site doesn't seem to be very adapted to walking, as it generally chooses major thoroughfares rather than nice, quiet ( Read more... )

Happy Diwali to all my Hindu friends and sympathisers ( Read more... )

In today's article in the SFgate.com series Finding My Religion David Ian Miller interviews Martin Lowenthal about dark retreats. These are retreats that are spent completely in a dark room. Lowenthal is a Tibetan Buddhist ( Read more... )

We have had a little Holi celebration here in the office today with sweets and coloured powder. One of my coworkers sent me the following explanation of the Hindu festival of Holi:

( the legends of Holi )

I went to Amaravati. On the way up I was listening to Norah Jones. That felt good. I used to do that a lot. Now I want to go driving just so I can listen to music really loudly and sing along. Too bad I can't commute to work by car anymore ( Read more... )

I just discovered that the Royal Mail Group site on diversity in the workplace includes a page about Wicca. That's a surprise. It's in a section of the site for managers, entitled Religious and Cultural Protocols.