politics

Honoring and Empowering Women

by Beth on March 8, 2013

A gathering to promote the rights of girls and education for all in Barrod village of Rajasthan’s Alwar district (2012). Photo: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok Today is International Women’s Day. Observed since the early 1900s,  it is a legal holiday in almost thirty countries, and is celebrated to honor women and our roles in society. [...]

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Do You Believe the Earth Is Alive and Sacred?

by Beth on March 7, 2013

April 12-13, 2013 in Columbia, SC In today’s post-modern, urbanized world, where everything is a commodity, how and where do Pagans find their sacred places?  How should we protect and maintain these sites?  In colonized worlds, how do we avoid the appropriation of these lands? If Goddess is immanent in nature, what makes some places [...]

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The Burning Times

by Beth on February 8, 2013

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. ~ Pat Robertson (whose media power, political influence, and global business interests are not a joke) I have been increasingly dismayed by some of the Witchcraft-focused tripe coming out in recent books, TV, and films.  But I’ve been [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Thirty Days of Thanksgiving, Day Seven

by Beth on November 7, 2012

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A Prayer Spell for the Election

by Beth on November 6, 2012

This was put together as a group effort by the global web of Reclaiming Witches. Feel free to wield it today, as ye will, an it harm none. May our leaders have the support they need for acts of true 
integrity that will support the 
health of the planet and its creatures, and be held [...]

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Thirty Days of Thanksgiving: Day Six

by Beth on November 6, 2012

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarten.  I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, helping to dispel darkness, ignorance, and stupidity. ~ Michael Moore Today is Day Six of my Thirty Days of Thanksgiving. And it’s Election Day in the United States.  So today, I give heartfelt [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: November 5-11, 2012: Eight of Pentacles

by Beth on November 5, 2012

All true work is sacred. ~ Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) In this pivotal week of the American Election, the astronomical cross-quarter of Samhain, and the beginning of Mercury retrograde, we get another Eight this week. This one has now appeared three times this year, most recently in August. Welcome, the Eight of Pentacles. We have gotten [...]

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Thirty Days of Thanksgiving – Day Five

by Beth on November 5, 2012

You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics. ~  Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 The Fives in numerology and Tarot are often about conflict, the upset of the stability of the Fours, and testing. They are [...]

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A Samhain Remembrance of the Ancestors

by Beth on October 30, 2012

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. – Exodus 22:18 On this day in 1985, the American House and Senate dropped the “Helms amendment,” which would have specifically barred the IRS from granting tax-exempt status to groups that promote Witchcraft. And on this day in 1998, only fourteen years ago, the Vatican finally took [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week – Oct. 27-Nov. 4, 2012: Eight of Wands

by Beth on October 29, 2012

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ~ Vincent Van Gogh With the superstorm Sandy bearing down on the most populous corner of the United States, on the day of the Taurus Full Moon, and with only a week until the momentous Presidential election, it was with great [...]

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