Official Pagan Thread!

[CoopCrazy]

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OK, Thank you.
Your aura is a strong one! Bursting at the seams with lots of energy. However that energy is like sand in your hand. The tighter you squeeze the faster it runs out............ Let go! Relax your grip. More sand may fall out but who cares. You don't need it.... And if you do you know where to get more.

You have been busy for a long time "collecting tools-preparing-planing" Placing these "tools" in your backpack as you walk your path in life at a comfortable timely pace. In your case I see Fire as a powerful accelerator. I feel it has pushed you forward and left you standing at a fork in your path. You see which trail to follow, but because of the accelerator, it is just so soon to let the backpack go as it is not needed on the new path.

Let go relax take your time. It is a beautiful morning in your meadow where the fork in the path is. Continue teaching and sharing the fruits of your backpack with others. Enjoy the gifts you give. When you are ready, maybe days maybe decades, your next trail looks challenging but wonderful, taking you to new heights beyond imagination. On the new trail there will be plenty of wonderful gifts for you.

(Yes, I cried when I got to the meadow and saw the fork in the path. It was a happy cry.)

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Thanks ON I think you hit it head on.. And the funny thing is I am a Fire sign and use Fire energy alot..

 

[CoopCrazy]

Thats awesome Deb.. It always seems to amaze me how the Universe just drops folks in our path that are searching for a common goal.. I have a feeling you will be pleasantly suprised how many times this sort of "coincedence" happens.. Enjoy it...

 

[farmerlor]

They want me to go BACK to the hospital to have yet another surgery. The surgeon assures me that this will be the last one but I'm really worried. Between the narcotics and the fact that I'm psychologically messed up from eight weeks of surgeries, infections, complications and more complications I can't seem to get any answers from the cards. I can feel the Goddess smiling but can't get a good feel for any kind of answer but I know she's here guiding me. Can someone look and see if this is going to come out okay? I think I've seen the Summerland so I'm not afraid to die but I am afraid to keep draining my family's financial resources and dragging this out forever.

 

[Kanchii]

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If I could read Tarot, I would. I've only just recently started learning about it. I'm sure someone on here can read for you, though. Blessed Be <3 I'll send good vibes towards you.

 

[Boyd]

Hi there guys n gals. Today was my parents 25th anniversary, and after dinner the wife and I decided to stop into the mall. We were both stuffed beyond anything ever but decided to go cuz we live far enough away its never practical unless we're already nearby. We were.

So I went to Motherhood, payless, burlington blah blah blah. got maternity this n that. Got a great belly brace for the wife to help with her ruptured disk... then I saw it........

The Bluemoon. It was a shop I've been in a hundred times before. But now I recognized it for what it truely was. This was the same store where I bought my first copy of sacred earth drums, and I get my incense. I looked around and recognized a lot of material that I've only been learning about. Hiding in plain sight

Ok ok I am dense.......

And I couldn't help myself, I really wasn't intending on buying any books today, because the library was almost right across the hallway from Bluemoon... but I picked up the Wiccan Warrior. So far he has a new spin on warriardom

It's like Sun Tsu mixed with Bhudda

 

[Organics North]

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Hi,
For me futures are often foggy places. I respect the fog as a sign and do not enter. Sometimes it is OK to stand at the door and try and get a feeling of what is in the fog, other times one gets the sense to turn and not look. (Just like the feeling you get when you barge in on some one in the bathroom by accident.)

With that said I will share my opinion.
Being a Romantic, I feel a second of "quality" connection with some one is worth a lifetime of mediocre existence. Money has a very very low value in the scheme of happiness.
To continue helping your family, find and develop their sense of free spirit, self confidence, and the internal peace that comes with that is giving your loved ones something money can not buy, nor can the worlds best schools teach. It only comes through in love.

I see it is as natural for all living creatures to just keep fighting for life. At the same time I too embrace death and see it as an extremely beautiful transition.

Just my .02 cents..
ON

 

[deb1]

I am reading a book by Joyce and River Higginbottom called Paganism: An Introduction to Earth Centered Religions.

The book made an interesting point about which I wanted to ask all your opinions. The writers state that some religions believe "That there is something wrong with you and you need our beliefs and practices to fix it."(pg 198) According to the authors, Pagans don't necessarily see humans as broken. "People are born with all the potential skills they need to make moral and ethical judgments."

Coming from a Christian background, that appears earth shaking to me. LOL So I am spending time just thinking about this idea and what it means.

Do any of you agree with this? Do you disagree?

I admit, it makes sense to me. Yes, people can do horrible things but we can also show compassion and kindness. Humans who are commit selfless acts don't all belong to the same faith so it stands to reason that good in us.

This might be common knowledge to the rest of you, but this is really causing me to have to stop and think how I have been influenced by my childhood beliefs.

 

[deb1]

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I am so glad that you liked it. Like I said, I suggested it but hadn't yet read it. So, I now have a new book to buy, but I already was pretty certain that I would want it.

 

[Boyd]

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I am so glad that you liked it. Like I said, I suggested it but hadn't yet read it. So, I now have a new book to buy, but I already was pretty certain that I would want it.

The author in that book also goes into an explanation of what the wiccan rede means to him and how other religions use guilt and the thought of sin differently. I was pretty impressed when he started talking about the views of Al Anon and how many of them relate to his beliefs. Honestly, it is something all religions would do well to add into their beliefs if they aren't there already

 

[CoopCrazy]

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I agree with the Author on thnis.. I feel that we are all bron witht he capacity for good and evil .. I have never been able to beleive that I was born flawed or full of sin.. How can something made perfect be flawed at the same time..