Showing posts with label adaptation to Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adaptation to Australia. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Post No. 663 - Reading



G'day, hello, howdy, hi, zdravstvujtye (some of my work colleagues are Russian, including an absolutely invaluable administrator who has recently taken maternity leave - may she and young one and family be blest), guten tag (where I have connection owing to a recent past life), sveiki, czesc (I have friends, not just colleagues, at work who are Polish), bonjour (colleagues at a former workplace were French, and we practised and tried to extend my woeful and limited range of this language), selamat pagi (one of the best junior engineers I ever worked with was Malaysian, and she taught me a few words), annyeonghaseyo, pryvit, bitaem, como vai (a friend of mine a few years ago, although not Brazilian, had Portuguese ancestry), ¡Hola (a former work colleague and friend, a VERY talented artist - with a Mexican sensibility to her artwork, particularly around the Day of the Dead - used to teach me Mexican Spanish), Selamat pagi, ni hao (ah, my work trips to Asia, and the many wonderful, wonderful people I have met there - and some excellent work colleagues and friends here, as well), bongiorno (my current home city of Melbourne has lots of Greeks and Italians, who have made our culture far richer - and made us coffee snobs :) ), hoschakal, hejsan, ciao, jo napolt kivanu, chào bà, chào ông, yiassou (from the city which has, I understand, the largest collection of Greek people outside of Greece), ceau, salam wa aleikum, sawas dee ka, dia duit, hoi, hei, namaste, marhaba, dobry den.
 Welcome to my next reading links post :)

On other matters:




[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings
Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.

  • neither eloquence nor inarticulateness inherently indicates correctness, but, as words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
  • Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
  • I mourn the desecration of the term 'Light Worker' by commercial interests, and the warping of the word 'Light' away from 'Clear Light' by the "(Fluffy) White Lighters".
  • Presuming that everyone has, or wants, a smartphone is discriminatory, unspiritual, and downright stupid.
  • Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
  • May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
  • Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
  • Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
  • The means shape the end.
  • My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
  • All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...


Human dignity is the inherently cumulative holistic combination of human rights, wellbeing and potential, and all actions or interaction which promote, realise or facilitate same. The converse also applies: whatever degrades, diminishes or robs humans of dignity, is inherently undignified.
Gnwmythr

The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.
Gnwmythr

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.
Jane Elliott

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.
(based on writing by) Edmund Burke

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Tags: adaptation to Australia, children, climate change, discrimination, meditation, psychism, reading, Sabbats, seasons, selfishness, shadow work, society, trees,
First published: Thorsdagr, 26th February, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Thursday, 26th February, 2015
 

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Friday, 5 November 2010

Post No. 162 - Adapting Wicca to the Great Southern Land

Indigenous matters have cropped up in some of my posts (for instance, see here and here). What I want to cover here is NOT indigenous ritual work - apart from that mostly being sacred, I don't know ANYTHING such rituals [1] - I have no idea, for example, how a tanderrum (welcoming) ritual would be conducted.

However, the land that I live on does not have the four seasons that my pagan traditions originated in: I would like to adapt it to suit the place I live in.

The indigenous peoples of this land, the Kulin people, had - according to a public webpage at the Museum of Victoria - identified seven seasons. I am hoping that this information that is publicly available has been made so with permission: I have used it to try to develop a new way of invoking that is based on these seasons that exist in the place I live.

I've come across a similar display previously, at the Brambuk Centre in the Grampians Gedriwerd), which is also available on the Bureau of Metreorology website, but this one was local.

The basic information about each season available on the Museum's website is:
Seasonal Responses
Kulin Seasons (a suggested template is here); 


I haven't finished this, to the extent that it is complete and neatly presented, but - given the high demands on my time - it is likely to be some time before I do. In the meantime, maybe someone else can use or finish this. So, here are my rough notes.

Before reading them, however, I ask that you read my post on Not devoking: I think being concerned about the possibility of doing something like "sending away the rain", which is catastrophic in mainland Australia, needs to be considered. If you do any devoking when working with indigenous seasons, make sure you are only devoking any energies represented by the season, not the season itself. I actually just go straight from the working to opening the circle and then doing a really good grounding when doing this type of working.



You'll see that I have tried to allocate a compass direction and set of emotions/life experience with each season, much as, for instance, east is associated with spring and any form of renewal.

It will be interesting to see what the Australian pagan community evolves towards in its practice over the next hundred years or so.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Notes:
  1. Although others in my family may have such knowledge - but, quite rightly, have not passed it on to me. My full-blood brother has spent many years working with indigenous people, particularly in northern NSW, and my full-blood sister was married to an indigenous man in the Kimberley region for a few years

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Tags: adaptation to Australia, rituals, energy work, grounding, indigenous, Kulin, seasons,

First published: Friday 5th November, 2010

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