Pagan Values Blogging Month: Know Your Place.

Jun 27, 2011 15:24


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 ( Read more... )

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half_double June 29 2011, 20:27:46 UTC
Nomad tendencies and sense of place can be compatible. If you commit to the notion that this place, wherever it is, is home, for however long you remain there, then it doesn't matter whether you stay a year or your entire life. You're still dwelling in the here.

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careswen June 29 2011, 20:15:29 UTC
Awesome points ( ... )

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half_double June 29 2011, 20:36:56 UTC
Native Americans were here first, the religion of this land was theirs, and many of them have asked that we keep our hands off their religion, and I respect that. My ancestors were Northern European, but that's not the land I live on, so I can't connect there, either. So I've always felt landless, spiritually. It's a cognitive/spiritual dissonance.

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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