International Pagan Values Blogging Month: My Pentacle of Pagan Values

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I want to wrap up International Pagan Values Blogging Month with a consideration of my personal Pagan values. As I mentioned before, I struggled to differentiate my "Pagan values" from, say, my "Midwest values" or my "big gay values." But when I asked myself upon what values I base my practices and beliefs - what values of Paganism (real or

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[thegreencall]

That's really awesome, thanks so much for sharing it.

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Happy to share! Glad you enjoyed reading it.

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By the by, from what deck does your delightful Magician image come?

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The Phantomwise Tarot. I really liked the artwork of it.

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This is fantastic!

The divine is not some disembodied being Out There.

I agree. I think that this is a pretty foundation pagan value.

What better way to honor that immanent interdependence than through celebration...

This is really a great idea. I like the concept of holding celebration as a virtue.

Pagan religions are religions of change-makers.

I once heard someone say that we are "meddlers." I agree. ;-)

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This is really a great idea. I like the concept of holding celebration as a virtue.

Thanks! It's been fairly fundamental to my practice and belief for some time, but it's really crystalized lately. Winter Camp was a big part of that, when we had the "revivalist" spirit without revival guilt and damnation.

I once heard someone say that we are "meddlers."

I often refer to myself as "the sacred pebble in the shoe of community."