Pagan Godspell is back

I am delighted to announce the return of one of the finest blogs in the Pagan blogosphere, namely Pagan Godspell. The writing is beautiful, the ideas pop and fizz out of Ruby Sara's brain like drops of precious oil landing in a hot griddle, and the poetry of the language speaks to your innermost divine self.

Take this passage from her latest blogpost and tell me if it doesn't stir the depths of your being:

The year is ripe with potent meaning and shattering depth. It is so flush with metaphor and story that it's bursting at the seams. Yes, there is power in bringing a cosmic mystery down into your own breath and bone, and asking it how it works in your microcosm. Certainly. But... Power, Big Power, shattering Holy Power, also, and profoundly, lies perfect and plain in the thing itself, by itself, without the need for our sometimes heavy-handed, hyperindividualized, personal-psychological extrapolation. And it is ritual based on this premise, on the things themselves and the mysteries they simply embody, that I wonder more about – that I find myself digging and reveling in come the turn of the leaves and the blue sky filling with the heart-smoke of autumn.

Tread gently on the Earth

There's an article on Witchvox about an important issue: taking care of the Earth whilst expressing ourselves spiritually. It's all very well being Dances-with-wannabes or whatever, but if your spiritual practices are despoiling the Earth and its inhabitants, or ripping off indigenous traditions, or bringing Paganism into disrepute, then you're not helping.

The purpose of the spiritual path (for me at least) is that by raising my own consciousness, I can spread a little happiness to others (both human and other-than-human). Despoiling the Earth and its inhabitants does not spread happiness. Many Pagan traditions are supposed to be Nature religions, which, it is generally agreed, involves taking care of Nature.

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