"Animist Diplomats", by Heather Awen
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usny&c=words&id=14595
YES!!! I am suffering immensely at the moment because of lack of contact with nature.
"Healing Earth One Strip Mined Crystal At A Time", by Heather Awen
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usny&c=words&id=14594
Lot in this - I've come close to returning crystals that were unwell when I bought them, but they healed themselves. I always make a point of sending healing to wherever any crystal I had came from. Probably helps that, as a kid, I got into the habit of taking "happy rocks" back to where I had found them if they stopped being happy. I emailed my appreciation of this article to the author, and her reply included the following link:
Blog: Adventures in Animism
Post: Greening Your Earth-Honoring Rituals
Link: http://tidesturner.blogspot.
"Soft Polytheism: Cultural Appropriation for a New Age", by BellaDonna Saberhagen
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=uspa&c=words&id=14630
"Reclaiming the Goddess of the Sun", byt S.Woodfield
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usct&c=words&id=14688
I read, possibly in one of Galina Krasskova's books, a comment that the Norse saw the Sun as female and nurturing because it brought life to their often frozen land, whereas further south the sun is harsher, and thgus the Moon is seen as softer and thus stereotypically female.
"Religious Classes and Other Social Concoctions", by Magaly Guerrero
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usny&c=words&id=14695
"Twelve-Step Paganism (Uh... WHUT? and other exclamations of confusion)" by Corvidae
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usny&c=words&id=14553
Love, light, hugs and blessing
Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")
Tags: crystals, environment, gender, astrology, Sun, Moon, society, attitudes,
First published: Tysdagr, 16th August, 2011
Last edited: Tuesday, 16th August, 2011
