Today (or yesterday, depending on who you ask or how you want to measure days) is Imbolc, the mid-winter holiday of the general Pagan calendar. While not technically the darkest of the dark days of winter, for those of us in the non-tropical regions of the northern hemisphere, it sure does kick of what is […]
Metaphysical Monday: Groundhog Day
Irony Intrudes
Last week, I planned to kick off a little four part series here on the elements. As homage to my seemingly endless problems with water being where water shouldn’t be, I was going to start off with that element and work my way through the other three over the rest of the month. That plan […]
An Invitation to Fellow Searchers
Things have been quiet here for quite a while. A lot of that has to do with my own re-investigation of myself, a renewal of old habits and a rediscovery of misplaced interests. Looking back, the past year was kind of sparse with personal spirtitual development. I got a little lost for a while digging […]
Death: A Personal Encounter With The Adversary
In the past thirty years, I’ve died at least three times. These deaths I speak of are not a physical death. No, they are more of a metaphorical death followed by a glorious return to a whole new life. It is the death of one version of “I” and the beginning of a new “I”. […]
Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself
“You are your own worst enemy” is an old saw, without question. But like many of its ilk, it holds more than a grain of truth. Nothing can mess with us more than our own mind. And here it is important to note that the mind is different from the brain in this context. The […]
Reconciliation
We are all made up of a multitude of different parts. I’m not talking physical parts here–I’m talking the ethereal parts that are just as, if not more, important than our physical base. We have different moods, different hopes, different fears and different attitudes. And we don’t always want or need to share all of […]
Pride and Vanity
It’s no secret I can come across as quite arrogant at times. I won’t argue the fact, and, if you ask, I’ll be the first to tell you that yes, I actually am arrogant. But only in some circumstances. There are a number of things I was apparently born good at or at least took […]
The Sacred Triduum: Service, Sacrifice, Salvation (Part IV)
It appears inevitable, looking at the story so far, that a spiritual path leads to much pain and suffering. More often than not, that becomes the case. The spiritual and the physical, while not actually opposing forces, are often seen as such. This creates conflict, especially in our modern world where extreme factions of both […]
The Sacred Triduum: Service, Sacrifice, Salvation (Part III)
As surely as true Service requires a certain amount of dedicated action, Sacrifice requires even more. For those on a spiritual path, the sacrifices start out small and sensible. Your old world views are offered up, making way for clearer sight. Your old self is cast to the four winds, making space for the new […]
The Sacred Triduum: Service, Sacrifice, Salvation (Part II)
Service is a basic tenant of many faiths. At the absolute least, we’re all stuck on this ball of mud together, so we should probably make the best of it. On a slightly less wry level, cooperation has definite survival benefits for critters that aren’t the biggest or strongest around. Our primitive ancestors relied on […]