Thank you for all your support this year. Here are the top ten post of 2015 on Under the Ancient Oaks. Read more
Thank you for all your support this year. Here are the top ten post of 2015 on Under the Ancient Oaks. Read more
While I’ve come to accept that sometimes the Pagan community just doesn’t care about something nearly as much as I do, there are times when I find myself screaming “this is important! Why are you not reading this?!” Read more
Denton CUUPS missed doing a Yule circle for the public, but we marked the Solstice and we laid the groundwork for a strong recovery. We will return to providing public rituals at Imbolc. Read more
If Newgrange is to have meaning for us beyond historical curiosity, it will not be in deciphering why it was built or how it was used. Rather, its meaning for us lies in how it moves us to do now what the ancient Irish did then: to celebrate the Solstice, and to honor our ancestors. Read more
All any religious writer or speaker can do is say “here it is if you’re willing to grab it.” If people choose something else, or if they choose to not choose, there’s nothing we can do but respect their decision and continue to affirm their inherent value as a person. Read more
How can Stonehenge not grab our attention? It stands there on the Salisbury Plain, silently screaming that it Must Be Important. Ancient people didn’t build this great big complicated thing for nothing – there’s got to be something we can do with it! Read more
Some people see the depth and meaning in polytheism, and they feel the call of the Gods, but they’re afraid to respond. They’re afraid to respond because polytheism is theism, and theism is scary. Read more
Deep magic is the way the world works, not in some quasi-scientific, oversimplified cause-and-effect way, but in the incredibly complex hands-on network of relationships and interdependencies. Read more
There is a place for religion that comforts, soothes, and heals. But there is also a need for religion that encourages and inspires us to honor the Gods and ancestors, work for peace and justice, and build a culture of sustainability. Read more
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It’s Not All The Same And That’s OK
Articulating religious differences is not an insult. I don’t have to affirm your beliefs and practices to affirm your inherent value and worth, nor to vigorously support your right to believe and practice as you see fit. Read more