Signposts and Measures

A Decade in Rewind: 2010-2020.

It was brought to my attention a few weeks back that, we are indeed at the end of another decade. These memes and blog posts remind us to pause, and take stock of the time we have spent, and what we have done. This decade has been, by far, the most eventful of my life. For the sake of this writing, I will break it down into bullet points, which have links. The links can be followed to a blog post from that year. Now, if you are seeing this, it's safe to assume you either know me personally, know of me personally, are one of my offspring, or know me through my work in the Pagan Community.

Musings

I have been reading quite a bit recently, in preparation for future classes, and to cause myself to do a bit of a deep dive in regards to the subjects I think I know. Every now and again, this sort of thing needs to be done, you have to challenge ideas about your past so that you can further evolve them. Seemingly unrelated subjects, but very much in the milieu of this, I got to thinking about my beginnings as a practitioner. My parents were New Agers. My siblings and I carried crystals as children, we spent time in the garden, we knew astrological signs, we read the Llewellyn calendar to determine when to plant our plants, and when to buy cars and make wise business decisions. Add in my autism, (which back then the traits were tied to my learning disability of "Dyspraxia Nervosa") and you have a really weird kid. I was concerned about the movements of the clouds, the trees, the stars and knew when my bedroom door swung open at 3am it was probably my Grandma coming to che...

Spirituality in the time of revolution

First of all, let's call it for what we see. This is a revolution. Revolutions are not known for being polite affairs that keep the feelings of all parties in mind. They are uproarious, sometimes violent affairs. They usually result in a loss of life. We live now in a place where racism is out there, and it can be seen and heard again. Hatred, bigotry and all of the unhappy things that go with it. We are not united still, however. Everyone wants to take their own unique viewpoint about what is and what is not acceptable. It's fine for you to have those viewpoints, but let's just start at the place that 98% of us can agree with. We don't want war, we don't want white supremacists or neo-Nazi's running our country. Now, someone is going to argue with me and tell me this civil unrest is not a revolution. It is a small group of "Antifa" or "alt-left" individuals who are causing the "trouble". But, let's just have a lo...

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