September Pagan Family Thread: Moving toward Mabon - Page 3

[siddal]

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I had my first when I was young-ish, and I felt out of sync for a long time, but I've found that as my kids get older, the differences get less pronounced. On getting back on track with the religious stuff, I wonder if you've seen this? http://paganfamilies.com/2012/07/seven-spiritual-habits-to-set-during-pregnancy/

 revolting, thank you!  Those are wonderful suggestions. 

[siddal]

FYI, just saw on FB that SageWoman has a sale on one of its early issues this week, which contains articles on what makes a home, including Anne Newkirk Niven's essay on raising small children "Our Pagan Home."  Just thought I would pass the info. on in case anyone is interested.

[revolting]

Originally Posted by SkyMomma 

Thank you all for the warm welcome!  It's been a wonderful Equinox weekend, with spectacular early New England Fall weather to keep all our celebrations easy & sunlit/moonlit.  To answer a few questions from last week (sorry, I didn't touch my computer for 4 days :):

I was raised pagan, so my children have the blessing & challenge of being 3rd generation pagan.  However, my sisters (actually half sisters) were raised Christian (Congregationalist).  My mother (pagan) and father (christian) divorced when I was very young.  My mother raised me & my two brothers pagan, in the jazz musician world, and made her money reading Tarot cards & making incense & amulets.  My father, after very wild hippy kind of teenage years, went back to his more conservative roots & became a deacon in the Congregationalist church, where I spent every other Sunday.  He re-married & had my two beloved half-sister.   At times I know my influence over my sisters made my father (& my step-mother) a little uncomfortable, but I feel lucky to have had exposure to many different spiritual paths & teachers, and I know my sisters feel the same.   They have forged their own spiritual paths, with one exploring a path closer to Christian Mysticism, and the other more strongly pulled by Pagan/Wiccan traditions, but both celebrate the wheel of the year.   That's it!  My family's spiritual history in a nutshell.

vydalea - Thanks for the complement on my family's eyes!  I actually have dark brown/ hazel, as does my youngest, But both my sisters & my oldest son have my dad's amazing blue eyes.  (My DH has hazel too, so my DS1 is truely a study in recessive genes).   One of my sister's lives next door (YAY), but the other lives about 4 hours drive away.  When we camp, we usually meet somewhere in the middle :). 

About the Revels, here's their website http://www.revels.org .  They are essential a chorus that celebrates the seasons in a 'traditional' way.  You may be familiar with the Christmas Revels, but they also have celebrations of the summer solstice, autumnal equinox & May Day.   They are an interesting mix of Pagan/early Christian & particularly their "Christmas Revels" are a study in the transition between pagan traditions & christian influence in the Celtic world. 

Blessed be!  Hope your weekend was wonderful!

Sky - I love to hear adult children with parents of different faiths talk positively of the experience. I definitely get nervous about the whole thing, sometimes. And what a neat history you have.

Maia - I hope you get some movement on the house soon. The market is just brutal for sellers right now.

Well, I'm off to make pumpkin bars...http://joythebaker.com/2008/10/pumpkin-pie-bars/

[Maiasaura]

The market ISN'T brutal for sellers in my area, that's the dang rub! Existing home sales went UP by like 31% or 33% over the last year. I just lowered the price by $3K and still have had no lookers at all but it's only been a week and a half. I'm just so weary of hoping, y'know? But I can't give up. I can't. The Universe will hear me and maybe believe that I shouldn't sell it. Which is NOT at all what I want.

I have started to try to set up a small, daily spiritual practice. My friend here, who writes a wonderful blog (google Asheville Village Witch and see if you can find it), suggested that even if you have to have a "stealth altar" (LOVE that! lol!) you can just have a flower in water, some incense, a rock, and a candle, for the elementals, and just sit and breathe with your cup of coffee or tea while you contemplate it.

Daily grounding...I am trying to work on that, too.

[revolting]

I like Star Foster on daily practice: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/pantheon/2012/06/slacker-paganism/

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by revolting 

I like Star Foster on daily practice: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/pantheon/2012/06/slacker-paganism/

That is a fantastic article. Too bad you can't leave comments! I wonder what s/he uses for hir daily prayers. And ritual.

Our local Asheville Village Witch (Byron Ballard) http://myvillagewitch.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/daily-practice-as-samhain-approaches/ I love the part about the stealth altar. And the simple way to start your practice (look at the candle, breathe, that's all).

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by Maiasaura 

That is a fantastic article. Too bad you can't leave comments! I wonder what s/he uses for hir daily prayers. And ritual.

Our local Asheville Village Witch (Byron Ballard) http://myvillagewitch.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/daily-practice-as-samhain-approaches/ I love the part about the stealth altar. And the simple way to start your practice (look at the candle, breathe, that's all).

Oh. I see I've posted about her already

[DaughterOfKali]

October thread is up. http://www.mothering.com/community/t/1364738/october-cozy-pagan-chat