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
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I see this soooo much in American Pagan communities, and a lot of people don't realize that's where their disconnect comes from.
Not to some gods or symbols that somebody said represents/inhabits this land. But to what's actually, tangibly here.
This is a huge part of how I shifted from theism to non. I was unsuccessfully attempting to form a relationship with a Sun goddess, and I kept banging my head against it until one day I realized that the reason it wasn't working was that I really just wanted to revere the Sun.
The lilacs always bloom a few weeks before my birthday. It's like they're my first birthday gift every year.This is fantastic! The irises were in bloom the day Leora & I ( ... )
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