Yvonne Aburrow's Blog, page 9

Changing Paths blogging challenge 2024

I’m starting the Changing Paths blogging / photo challenge. Take part and use the hashtag #changingpathschallenge2024 to be in with a chance to win a copy of Changing Paths. Subscribe to this blog, Dowsing for Divinity or the Changing Paths blog, to be in with a chance to win.

Feel free to write poetry, take photos, make collages, and write blogposts — whatever you want — and feel free to drop me a comment to let me know if you’re taking part.

Changing Paths blogging/photo challenge fo...

Mermaid moments

Just before midday Lucy saw a large shoal of fishes grazing on the weed. They were all eating steadily and all moving in the same direction. “Just like a flock of sheep,” thought Lucy. Suddenly she saw a little Sea Girl of about her own age in the middle of them—a quiet, lonely-looking girl with a sort of crook in her hand. Lucy felt sure that this girl must be a shepherdess—or perhaps a fish-herdess—and that the shoal was really a flock at pasture. Both the fishes and the girl were quite close...

The LBRP — my experiences

Between 2004 and 2006, I experimented with the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP). I’ve often compared it to having one’s psyche scraped out with a rusty teaspoon—in other words, effective but somewhat abrupt.

This was well before any online discussion about whether using Kabbalah practices is cultural appropriation. I’ve already written extensively about cultural appropriation so I have only addressed one aspect of it in this post.

Thanks to Sorita d’Este for the writing prom...

Arms embargo now

It’s past time that the world stopped supplying the Israeli government with bombs and weapons.

Demand Your MP Sign Onto the Call for a Full and Immediate Arms Embargo on Israel!

As the catastrophe wrought by Israel’s continued assault on Gaza grows, we’re calling on the Canadian government to immediately suspend all trade in arms and military technology with Israel.

— ArmsEmbargoNow.ca

Act now

Nothing rhymes with Nakba

If you were penned in by a wall
Where bombs constantly fall
Where fear descends like a pall
Wouldn’t you rail against fate?

If you were penned in by a fence
And only protected by tents
If you were starved and afraid
How would you face your fate?

If your home was destroyed
And the future seemed null and void
And the smoke and dust that cloyed
Wouldn’t you want to escape?

Seventy-five years of Nakba
(This didn’t start last October)
Homes lost, bulldozed, destroyed
So much death.

Let the people of ...

Reblog: Should I stay or should I go?

Should I stay or should I go? Exploring a journal prompt from chapter 2 of “Changing Paths”

Excellent post from Jarred reflecting on one of the journal prompts from Changing Paths.

Hello dear readers! It’s Friday morning so that means once again exploring a journal prompt from the wonderful book, Changing Paths…

Should I stay or should I go? Exploring a journal prompt from chapter 2 of “Changing Paths”

Get your copy here!

Pagan Wordle 7

Play Pagan Wordle 7

Check out some of my previous posts

Beltane is comingBeltane fires and maypolesBlue Beltane

I’m up for a COVR Award

Hey everyone, I have been nominated for a COVR award for Changing Paths.

If you enjoyed it, please vote for it. And also vote for items in other categories that you enjoyed.

Vote in the COVR awards 2024

Undermining Christian hegemony

Undermining Christian hegemony

Pagan Wordle 6

Play Pagan Wordle 6Coast path near Bindon Cliffs
•
Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved] © Copyright Derek Harper

Check out some of my previous posts

Wonder and delight: Tolkien and Pagan ideasGreen witchEco-spirituality in practice