St. Patrick's Day
Today is "St. Patrick's Day" I've been wrestling with this day for sometime. I'm happily Irish in history, but I'm Wiccan. So, what do I do? Being Irish, I have to enjoy the fact that we are the only culture that gets celebrated internationally. I mean...think about it. There's no Czech Day nor Peruvian Day, internationally speaking.
But the day started being celebrated in honour of the pagans being genocided into obscurity in Ireland. While I don't want to be disrespectful of what has happened to First Nations in North America, Ireland had it's own oppression...difference being that the First Nations didn't lose touch entirely...there were only a handful of generations even touched by it. The pagan beliefs of Ireland are practically non-existant. I can't celebrate that. So...what do I do?
A friend has brought forth an answer. I shall celebrate being Irish! I'll raise up my Guinness and Whiskey and make a toast to all that is Irish...and all that is lost. I shall wear my colours of mourning of pagans and druids that lost their lives in the blind fury of St. Patrick. From now on, St. Patrick's Day will be a Memorial Day.
But the day started being celebrated in honour of the pagans being genocided into obscurity in Ireland. While I don't want to be disrespectful of what has happened to First Nations in North America, Ireland had it's own oppression...difference being that the First Nations didn't lose touch entirely...there were only a handful of generations even touched by it. The pagan beliefs of Ireland are practically non-existant. I can't celebrate that. So...what do I do?
A friend has brought forth an answer. I shall celebrate being Irish! I'll raise up my Guinness and Whiskey and make a toast to all that is Irish...and all that is lost. I shall wear my colours of mourning of pagans and druids that lost their lives in the blind fury of St. Patrick. From now on, St. Patrick's Day will be a Memorial Day.