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Renna Shesso
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Gerald Hawkins and Anthony Aveni on the science side; Joseph Campbell,
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North Star, spinning, “baa-ram-ewe…”
I read a post recently from someone looking for “cruelty-free” wool, coming (I guess) from an assumption that all human dealings with domesticated animals are certain to be cruel and exploitive.
Wool isn’t like that. Sheep-shearing doesn’t hurt the sheep any more than a haircut hurts us. It’s done in the spring as the weather warms and the lambs will be arriving. The shearing creates better sanitar Read more of this blog post »
Wool isn’t like that. Sheep-shearing doesn’t hurt the sheep any more than a haircut hurts us. It’s done in the spring as the weather warms and the lambs will be arriving. The shearing creates better sanitar Read more of this blog post »
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“One means of worshipping Aphrodite was as, or through, a hierodule. The word means “sacred servant” but tends to be translated as “temple prostitute,” missing the larger idea that sexuality and sensuality have spiritual power and energy,”
― Planets for Pagans: Sacred Sites, Ancient Lore, and Magical Stargazing
― Planets for Pagans: Sacred Sites, Ancient Lore, and Magical Stargazing
“• Little fingers, little Moon (think of that tiny “fingernail clipping” shape). • Thumb joints, Full Moon—either almost, exactly, or just past. • Widdershins means right to left, moon-wise, opposite the Sun’s motion, so: • Right-hand backward-C-shape, the Moon is waxing, growing larger. • Left-hand C-shape, the Moon is waning, shrinking in size.”
― Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry
― Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry
“In Japan, the Shinto Sun goddess Amaterasu is especially prominent. She's considered the ancestress of the Japanese ruling family and is represented by the red circle on the Japanese flag.”
― Planets for Pagans: Sacred Sites, Ancient Lore, and Magical Stargazing
― Planets for Pagans: Sacred Sites, Ancient Lore, and Magical Stargazing
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“The woman wanderer goes forth to seek the Land of Freedom.
“How am I to get there?” Reason answers: “here is one way, and one only. Down the banks of Labour, through the water of suffering. There is no other.”
The woman cries out: “For what do I go to this far land which no one has ever reached? Oh, I am alone! I am utterly alone!”
But soon she hears the sounds of feet, ‘a thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, and they beat this way!’
“They are the feet of those who shall follow you. Lead on.”
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“How am I to get there?” Reason answers: “here is one way, and one only. Down the banks of Labour, through the water of suffering. There is no other.”
The woman cries out: “For what do I go to this far land which no one has ever reached? Oh, I am alone! I am utterly alone!”
But soon she hears the sounds of feet, ‘a thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, and they beat this way!’
“They are the feet of those who shall follow you. Lead on.”
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