It’s a busy day…
I just don’t have the time to do a proper update today, so instead I’ll point you to some great pagan-related writing I have seen.
First off, Jacqueline Z. Waters weighs in with a great post about religion and money in The Juggler entitled “tithe”.
“It suddenly became clear to me what the next step was in my reaching to understand the role of fiscal life in the sacred. Set aside 10% of your income every month to support your church. My church is the earth, my fellow congregation is all of humanity.” – Jacqueline Z. Waters
Meanwhile, Sage at Goddessing talks about corn, tradition and the upcoming Lammas season.
“OK, so Chicomecatl was celebrated in April-May and shows up in a seasonal (July-August) article. Happens all the time. We pagans sometimes want to make the world fit into our constructs, and the world makes that hard on us. Yes, Lammas — the Celtic holiday we neopagans are preparing to celebrate — is a celebration of grain, of the first harvest. And so we write about deities of grain now, sometimes forgetting that just pinning them to the Lammas tail of our Wheel of the Year donkey doesn’t make them properly associated with a Celtic God (Lugh) and the feast day He instituted for honoring and celebrating His Foster Mother and Queen (Tailtiu).” – Sage @ Goddessing
Finally, Chas Clifton returns to blogging to alert us to a new book called “The Inner West: An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West”, a best-of collection from the now defunct Gnosis magazine.
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