Official Pagan Thread!

[justuschickens59]

I just found this thread and was thrilled !! I'm a born again Pagan of 10+ years now. I follow an eclectic path, with a bent towards Celtic. Hubby is also a Pagan which just makes it really great. I am really into herbs and crystals and I grow my own herbs for cooking, ritual, smudging, etc. I am a hopeless rock hound and my house is full of every kind of rock and crystal I can find. My husband likes to drum and I am slowly learning to play the Native American Flute. We live out in the country and we have a Stone Circle in our woods.

We used to live in Northern VA and there was a huge Pagan community there and we were very active. Since moving here, we've been trying to establish a strong Pagan community, but it is difficult, as we are right on the buckle of the bible belt. I do miss my coven that I have belonged to for 10+ years, but we go back for Sabats and rituals when we can.

I haven't read through all the pages at one sitting, but plan to read them all by the weekend, so I don't have much to contribute to the conversation at this point. I also plan of finding the Solstice thread and reading that thread also.

Beltane is fast approaching...anybody doing anything special?

 

[OccamsTazer]

In this mad flurry of wedding planning, I just had the coolest realization!

Our pastor is only available the last two weekends in June.

Solstice wedding!

Any ideas for fun things I can sneak in under the radar at the service or reception? My partner is very open to this sort of thing, and so is our pastor, but we have old southern grannies who cannot be pushed too far

<disclaimer>And no, I'm not pregnant, we're just getting married in a hurry because life is going to be insanely busy for the next two years. We've been together for nearly four years, it's not a bad rush decision </disclaimer>

 

[deb1]

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Congratulations.

 

[sune42]

My wedding was on June 21st

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Welcome to the Pagan thread!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Congrats!!

What about a sunrise or sunset wedding? Are you getting married in a church or outside? Outside you could have things positioned based on the Medicine Wheel. East is the place of new beginnings.


Is you pastor from a Unitarian Church? They are pretty open about allowing other beliefs and practices.

 

[Organics North]

Hey justchickens59.. welcome to our fun easy going group!! Just love your little saying at the bottom about realizing we can not eat money...

Kanchii, OK you win the prize for the most creative chicken art.. Handy to have a Rambo chicken with the backdrop of the andes..For times like this...

IHWIMY, I respect you for the patience you have with students such as the one you described. Good thing people like that are generally the exception and not the norm...
If it was not your job and all.... it would be fun to tell some one like that girl, YA, I am a WITCH... Boo!

OccamsTazer, My brothers wedding was pagan. Pretty much a Celtic theme. A circle of flowers in your hair? Maybe some Celt music? Congrats on tying the knot.. My wife and I have been married 17 years. I got married when I was 26.

ON

 

[OccamsTazer]

I don't want to threadjack with wedding babble, but:
We're doing it outdoors at the beach, and then a big crawfish boil at the family beach house.
I'd go to the courthouse if it were up to me, but we both have massive extended families and there would be many hurt feelings.
We actually go to a Southern Baptist church, our pastor is just an odd bird. He *should* be unitarian

I like the idea of sneaky placement of things in significant ways.

When I told Josh that the date we had picked was right next to the Summer Solstice, he got kind of excited too.
We're just a theological mess here, like some kind of Ghost-hunters watching, incense-burning, Christo-pagan messes

 

[saddina]

Instead of a stone circle, you could do a ring of seashells. Flowers or torches at compass points.

I litterly red lined out all of the parts of the ceromony I didn't want, instead of the lord's prayer I had a native americian blessing, instead of the word obey (I am not a cocker spaniel) we had respect. Ask him if he has a usual script, and tell him you'd like to include some poetry or such. Alot of "witchy" stuff you can sneak in as "old family tradation" and let the grannies assume it's from the other side of the family.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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We got married in a church (I'm suprised it didn't fall down) When the Pastor got to the obey part, he said it, snorted and said, "yeah, that's really gonna happen!"


ETA---Love the idea of ring of shells.

 

[jendh]

OccamsTazer-

I love the circle of shells idea too! Very cool! My husband and I hand a handfasting ceremony with a blessing of our hands to start. It was not terribly "pagan". Very easy to get it to fly under the radar of the more traditional folks at our wedding. Even the innkeeper who performed said it was the coolest ceremony he had done.