A bicycle isn't a Pagan value, you say? Not a value at all, you say? ( Clearly, you've never seen me on a bicycle. )

To "know my place". To be truly familiar with where I live. To indwell.

Chas Clifton addresses a lot of this in his 1998 essay "Nature Religion for Real". For this entry, I want to add a couple of reasons why I consider the study of and grounding in place central to my Pagan practice.

1) Reverence. If I am going to claim (and I do) that I ( Read more... )

As part of her roundup of favorite posts from the first week of International Pagan Values Blogging month, Diana Rajchel points out a post at Fat and Not Afraid on the concept of "My Body is a Temple". I like F&NA's outlook: "my body is a temple", which implies to me a certain awareness of stewardship (eating right and exercising and never mind the ( Read more... )