Happy New Year and happy Twelfth Night to all who are still on Livejournal!

This Saturday I attended the opening of a new Pagan store in Columbus called the Magical Druid, started by chronarchy. The shop, on the corner of Pacemont and High, has many wondrous things and Columbusites should check it out.

I met chronarchy during the first full year of the OSU Pagan Student Association, the year after I'd begun my own journey into this religion ( Read more... )

Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People ( Read more... )

As Lughnasadh is a harvest festival that coincides with the Cherokee Blue Corn Festival, and as I live in Ohio where one of the main crops is corn, I always buy an ear of corn to use in my ritual as an offering. First fruits and all that. The corn starts to come into the grocery store at the end of July, so it has always worked out ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTSV4Eh0R4

Another reason Dr. King rocks.

Last night I watched a PBS documentary on MLK. I learned that he forbade his supporters from carrying guns when they were around him because he was afraid that when (not if, when)a "sick white brother" finally killed him, his supporters might shoot back ( Read more... )

Wow. I completely passed Solstice this year (livejournal post, not the actual observance). There are simply too many on-line sites to keep up with them all ( Read more... )

Happy Hanukkah everyone!

Looking through my book of shadows, I realized that I have numerous Ostara rituals. My Mabon ritual, however, is virtually unchanged since 2000. I have no idea why I continuously feel the need to rewrite one equinox ritual but not the other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiMzxMEw5sw

Happy Lughnasadh everyone.