"Because I like it dark and low"
I'm sitting here, looking at my collected weird ass art, trying to figure out what to say about The Longest Day. And really, while I've got all these little thoughts, there's no cohesive theme I can think of to put on paper (well, really into pixels) about the day.
There's the altar I set up to consecrate a particularly good necklace shaped like a dead deer's skull in the name of the dying season.
There's the art I did, which was unsatisfying and, by the time I finished it, an utter mess.
There's the music I FINALLY ordered and am listening to on Spotify to remind myself of how damn tasty pop is.
I suppose the common theme here is really the alteration of my normal, or desired, rituals to fit into an urban setting. I can't impart any divine wisdom on those facing this schism: facing very traditional pagan rituals and beliefs with a totally different pair of optics then the normal pagan has. I really don't have any friends in the pagan community, so I can't speculate upon the differences between my practices and any "average pagan."
In the end I suppose I know what's working for me (though "working" is misleading: if it were "working" I'd be a lot more fastidious about my practice and not forgetting to so much as dust my altar) and I can stick to that.
I just wish I could get input on other outlooks for this urban/techno-pagan thing.
There's the altar I set up to consecrate a particularly good necklace shaped like a dead deer's skull in the name of the dying season.
There's the art I did, which was unsatisfying and, by the time I finished it, an utter mess.
There's the music I FINALLY ordered and am listening to on Spotify to remind myself of how damn tasty pop is.
I suppose the common theme here is really the alteration of my normal, or desired, rituals to fit into an urban setting. I can't impart any divine wisdom on those facing this schism: facing very traditional pagan rituals and beliefs with a totally different pair of optics then the normal pagan has. I really don't have any friends in the pagan community, so I can't speculate upon the differences between my practices and any "average pagan."
In the end I suppose I know what's working for me (though "working" is misleading: if it were "working" I'd be a lot more fastidious about my practice and not forgetting to so much as dust my altar) and I can stick to that.
I just wish I could get input on other outlooks for this urban/techno-pagan thing.