Resources on Paganism - Page 2

[Arduinna]

I like pangaia, I think it's great especially for those eclectic pagans. I haven't read Blessed Bee, they dont' carry it locally.

Welcome to the lady from Kernville, we have camped north of there for years. Love it!

[waldohood]

Do the Gnostic texts speak of the birth?

[HotMama]

Great thread! Is the Circle Round CD a colection of the songs and stories in the book?

[Meiri]

Great thread! Is the Circle Round CD a colection of the songs and stories in the book?

Yes, I need to get it some time too.

[shamanmage]

circle round and sing cd

Re: HotMama's question about the cd. . . I don't have the book, so I don't know which songs are in there, but the cd says, "13 songs from Circle Round-plus 6 new songs."
My daughter loves to listen to Circle Round, Fur and Feathers, Ocean Lullabye and The Witch Song especially. You can find it at www.serpentinemusic.com
I think that you can listen to exerpts as well.

Arduinna, Thank you for the welcome. I love Kernville also. We just moved here from LA a couple of months ago.
Where do you camp? Do you come for a particular festival? There are some great events up here.

[Arduinna]

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[shamanmage]

Waldohood- Which Gnostic texts?
Arduinna- Im going to Morro Bay next weekend. There is a hay bale construction workshop near there in Cambria.
Thanks for the tip on Ponderosa. I'll have to check into that.
Whisky Flats days are so fun. Did you ever go the the BioRegions Festival? That is very impressive.

[Arduinna]

I've never been to any of the festivals up there. DH went to WF days before we got married. We go to the NF for the trees and the solitude.

Have fun in Morro Bay!!

[DaryLLL]

Christianity's pagan origins

Wanted to add this link to this thread.

pagan origins of the christ myth

[Clarity]

I would like to second Arduinna suggestion about Hutton's Triumph of the Moon. I'm half way through it now and have made a lot of notations. As a mediocre, casual pagan (I like to think of myself as from the peasant, rather than priestly class) a lot of the pieces of the modern pagan movement were kind of hazy to me. I enjoy history quite a bit, so Hutton's outlines of how a lot of things fit together (Plato, Romantic Poets, Theosophy, Freemasonry, and a balanced view of the contributions of Gardner and Crowley for example.)

I have't done any pagan reading in a long time, this book has revitalized my interest!

[Arduinna]

I'm glad you are liking it Clarity. His book Stations of the Sun is great too, about the wheel of the year.

[DaryLLL]

bump, since we can't get a sticky.

[Arduinna]

For those that are looking for a pagan community :

http://www.cuups.org/

Conventant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans.

[bamboogrrrl]

Great thread - I'm making tons of notes from all of your mama suggestions...

Books to add:

"Drawing Down the Moon" by Margot Adler - a history of pagansim in the US

Any books by Z. Budapest - feminist pagan stuff

Any books by Starhawk, especially "The Spiral Dance" and "Dreaming the Dark"

All books by Susun Weed - witchy herbalism stuff

[DaryLLL]

Bump

[moom]

help?

Merry met,
I hope this is a good area to ask questions,
I am a 22 year old SAHMama with a 10month old DS, and wife to DH of 3 years.
I am a solitary practitioner (partly by choice, and partly because I live in the sticks away from “open minded” communities)
Does anyone have any Ideas on how to include (what to do with) small children, during ritual work, again since I am a loner I usually do my “magick” when my husband is at work so there is no one to watch my DS.
I am also looking for some advice/ideas on a “soul retrieval” spell?
I have suffered a traumatic event and have been feeling rather scattered ever since
I have heard of a ritual that calls fragmented pieces back to your self has anyone run across something like this?:
Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated
Until merry we meet again!

[Clarity]

anyone that wants to read stations of the sun, by Hutton. DO NOT pay the used price here, which I've seen on amazon at $98! Buy from amazon.co.uk, it's still in print. They take credit cards just like here, and little extra for shipping...I think it was like $23 with shipping and I had it VERY fast.

[Arduinna]

Excellent point Clarity, Amazon UK is also great for getting books from UK writers before they are published in the US :-)


Moom, sorry I don't really have any resources for you.

[TieDyeMom]

For kids books, I recommend the author Ellen Jackson. She has four books respectively Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox. They all cover different cultures' celebrations of the events and their pagan meanings. They are picture books but have a lot of print so I would say geared more for 5 or 6+ depending on the child. A book for parent and child to read together but lots of easy information. They come in hc or paperback.

Also, in case you haven't come across it yet, www.witchvox.com is a great website that has lots of information, searching tools and links for pagans. They have areas for parents and teens as well.

[Arduinna]

ok, here is an herb source. They even have some really hard to find ones

http://www.pennherb.com/