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2012-02-03T11:35:58-04:00

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Stumbling Past Imbolc, or Not All Sabbats Are Created Equal

Last updated on: February 3, 2012 at 11:35 am By Star Foster

I have already broken one of my New Year’s resolutions. I intended to celebrate every Sabbat equally in 2012. Yet Imbolc has come and gone, and I honestly did very little to celebrate it. I don’t even really feel regret at skipping past the holiday uncelebrated. As I sit here and consider Imbolc, I have to admit that I don’t really care about it. I want to care about Imbolc. I’ve put a lot of effort into psyching myself up... Read more

2012-02-02T12:25:42-04:00

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Quickie: Wicker Tree Party in ATL?

Last updated on: February 2, 2012 at 12:25 pm By Star Foster

So if I could convince the Atlanta Midtown Art Cinema to get The Wicker Tree, how many of my local peeps would come out to see it? Because the window of opportunity to see it on the big screen is tiny, and we could all go to Park Tavern afterwards and argue about how good/bad it was and reminisce about The Wicker Man. You know it would be fun, and a fantastic story to tell. I’ve heard stories of Pagans... Read more

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Atlanta

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema

2012-02-02T10:39:53-04:00

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Can You See Your Shadow?

Last updated on: February 2, 2012 at 10:39 am By Star Foster

Everybody has their favorite groundhog. Mine is General Beauregard Lee, who lives (not far from my birthplace) at Yellow River Game Ranch. He agrees with my prediction that the warm weather will continue, and predicts an early spring. It seems to me this morning that all this groundhog lore is perhaps also a lesson in self-knowledge. Can you see your own shadow? Can you predict your foreseeable future? Do you know thyself? A lot of Pagan books talk of shadow... Read more

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General Beauregard Lee

Yellow River Game Ranch

2012-03-16T20:06:20-04:00

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Ascent of the Goddess: 7th Annual Brigid Poetry Festival

Last updated on: March 16, 2012 at 8:06 pm By Star Foster

Here’s my contribution to the 7th Annual Brigid Poetry Festival: Clean water, rose-scented, bright linen sheets: wind-rippled. Droplets race down her skin, carrying death back to the earth. Sun-brown women carry pitchers filled with lavender water for hair matted, plaited in patterns of death. Throw those rotten shoes into the sea! Banish these tattered rags to the mountain! Exorcise this filth from her pure body! Caramel skin glows radiant as the decay falls away, hidden so long in the realm... Read more

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7th Annual Brighid Poetry Festival

2012-01-31T11:14:47-04:00

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By the Hair On My Chinny, Chin, Chin

Last updated on: January 31, 2012 at 11:14 am By Star Foster

Like many women, I have wild hairs that grow on my chin. Amidst the barely visible down that adorns every woman’s chin, I have random stiff hairs, standing dark and proud. Staunch, rugged individuals among the insubstantial fluff. Rebels. I tend to keep these hairs plucked and my chin tidily feminine, but a week of wrangling boxes and furniture left my boar bristles free reign. My chin looked decidedly mangy this morning as I lucked each pioneer, each thick outpost,... Read more

2012-01-30T11:14:38-04:00

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Almost Imbolc and I Feel Fine…

Last updated on: January 30, 2012 at 11:14 am By Star Foster

I should write something deep about poetry. Or fire. Or the sacred forge of life tempering us all. Or spring. But I really don’t want to. We’ve had unusually warm, lovely spring weather here in Georgia and I just want to play on a tire swing. Or ride my bike. Or have a picnic. One of those picnics where you eat tomato sandwiches, ridged potato chips, and store-bought cookies. Where you crack open a watermelon and eat it with the... Read more

2012-01-29T12:19:25-04:00

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I’m Getting Old

Last updated on: January 29, 2012 at 12:19 pm By Star Foster

After packing up and moving all my stuff with the help of amazing friends, every bone and muscle in body hurts. I’m obviously not a teenager anymore, but I feel a lot older than 30 today. So as I moan and groan over my aching body, enjoy this: Read more

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2012-01-28T08:30:13-04:00

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Hijacking Paganism in the Media

Last updated on: January 28, 2012 at 8:30 am By Star Foster

Imagine people began to refer to all people who wear religious jewelry as Catholic. The wearing of a Star of David could be characterized as the “Catholic Agenda,” and shops selling pentacles provided as proof of Catholicism on the rise. It’s a complete misuse of the word Catholic. It’s confusing. It’s inappropriate. It makes it seem as if Catholicism isn’t a real religion. When Gingrich referenced Paganism the other day, he was talking about secularism. He was talking around us.... Read more

2012-01-27T10:19:29-04:00

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Gingrich Equates Gay Marriage to Paganism Like It’s A Bad Thing…

Last updated on: January 27, 2012 at 10:19 am By Star Foster

Newt is awesome. He is so arrogantly oblivious to his own hypocrisy that sometimes I suspect his whole campaign is run by Stephen Colbert. He is a gift to political comedians everywhere, and for once he said something sensible about marriage (amidst his usual sea of hypocritical crazy). The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization. – Newt Gingrich I bolded... Read more

2012-01-26T13:33:52-04:00

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Desiring a Sanctified Home

Last updated on: January 26, 2012 at 1:33 pm By Star Foster

Word is Drew Barrymore is converting to Judaism. Remember last year when Julia Roberts converted to Hinduism? I’m conflicted about people who convert for marriage, but I understand the reasons why. Last night I was on a podcast run by Lamyka called the Pagan Women’s Podcast. About once a month she ropes various Pagan women into talking about subjects of interest to us. This time the episode was about Hellenic polytheism, and Lamyka and I grilled Cara Schulz on her... Read more

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