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Ronald Hutton! The man himself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbG...

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"Christian Goddesses?" with Prof. Ronald Hutton religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/christian-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4459...

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On the 9th day of Christmas, Gresham gave to me.. Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe? gres.hm/pagan-goddesses Prof Ronald Hutton considers a set of superhuman female figures from #medieval Europe - Mother Nature, Herodias and Cailleach @UoBrisHistory#history #pagan

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reminder to myself 😅 "the letters mh make the same sound as w." 🤯😵‍😂

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Sometimes the problem isn’t that I go too far with deep spiritual and magical experiences, it’s that I don’t go far enough. I want to do more but don’t know if I’m well enough to do more. But for this full moon, I think it’s time to try. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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"11 Things About Mystic South 2024" This year’s Mystic South conference in Atlanta was good as usual. Here are 11 observations from my time there last weekend. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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In 1941 Dion Fortune instructed her order to stop concentrating on defense and start visualizing what they wanted to build after the war. World War II would not end until 1945, but Dion Fortune was right. And what was right in 1941 is right in 2024. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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Religious questions are inherently uncertain. In the absence of conclusive evidence, doubt is unavoidable. But unlike what some religions teach, doubt is a good thing. Doubt keeps you honest. Doubt keeps you searching for the truth. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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"Why I Became More Liberal As I Got Older" People say that as you get older, you get more conservative. That may be true for some people, but the older I get, the more liberal I become. And I think it’s worth exploring why that is. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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It’s not enough to walk away from a bad religion – true healing requires finding something good and helpful to replace it. The empowerment, acceptance, and joy Moss Matthey found are available to anyone who will follow the steps in this book. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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The apologists of Threads aren’t trying to convert atheists so much as they’re trying to convince themselves that they really do believe the “right” things. They’re proselytizing for certainty for themselves. And that’s an impossible task. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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I don’t want to talk about what witchcraft is – I want to talk about what witchcraft is for. Why do you do witchcraft – however you define it? What does it bring you? How does it change you, for better or worse? www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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I see no reason to separate our celebrations into “secular” and “sacred.” They’re all part of what it means to experience October in the modern world. I see six lessons of Samhain and Halloween for us all, Pagan or otherwise. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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Our mainstream society likes to ignore death and hide it away. But sooner or later, all of us will die. The time to think about death is on a beautiful Sunday morning when we feel like we’re going to live forever, even though we know we won’t. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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While we need to be prepared for any contingency, it does us no good to dwell on worst-case scenarios before they happen. With less than a week to go, I want to take a look at what I expect will happen in the Presidential election. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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Acknowledge your feelings – they’re real. Take care of yourself, whatever that means for you. Mainly, do not give an inch unless you absolutely have to. Keep being who and what you are, as openly and loudly as you can. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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Sometimes you have to choose a side. I choose witchcraft. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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This isn’t what we wanted, but it is what we prepared for. This is why we’ve been working magic regularly for the past several years, even if we didn’t have a need that was so great it required magic to fill. And so we’re ready. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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Lots of new people on BlueSky, and I'm picking up lots of new followers in the process. I mainly promote Under the Ancient Oaks blog posts here, but I do occasionally comment when I feel like I have something to say. Photo is from the House of Spirits cocktail party a couple weeks before Halloween.

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Some of y’all don’t know what an ally is, and that’s causing harm for you and for our efforts to build a better world. An ally isn’t someone who supports you unconditionally. An ally is someone who fights at your side against a common enemy. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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Conservative columnist and Orthodox Christian Rod Dreher’s new book Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age is three books in one. Two of them are very good. The third is dangerous, especially to those of us in the Pagan community. www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...

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I'm on the most recent episode of the Polytheism Today podcast. angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/ep-20-john...

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May the warmth of the sun, nurture you; The cool waters, cleanse you; Nature's bounty, replenish you; The song of the trees, comfort you; The knowledge of the bees, guide you. ~ Druid Blessing by Stephen G. Rae #blessings #wisdom #druidry

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The great tree thrives on the leaves that it casts to the ground Druidry today does not pretend to present a replica of the past, rather it is producing a new season's growth ~ Cairistiona Worthington #wisdom #Druidry 🖼 The Druids by Julia Tar

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#ogam #ogham #druidry #occultsky #occult #upayas #magick #witch #witchsky #wicca #blacksky

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#NationalTreeWeek - Hazel the tree of the Druids because of its position at the heart of The Otherworld - nine magic hazel trees hang over the Well of Wisdom C • Coll/ Hazel : the nineth tree in Ogham, characterized by knowledge, wisdom, and transformation #trees #wisdom #druidry

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In Cumbrian dialects, 'yar' is hare In lore, hare is a symbol of femininity and rebirth; and a messenger, moving by moonlight between this world and The Otherworld. Caesar mentioned that the Druids didn't eat hares. #folklore #druidry #cumbria 📷 Mike Rae

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Here is a nice mushroom

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