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A Tale of Many Meetings

On 9 August 2011 By

In a triumph of optimism and ideology over observation and common sense, I’ve just hung out my laundry to dry in the cold, dank, near-freezing San Francisco fog.  There is a reason I love this place—and there’s another reason I generally do my big travels in the summer, which I’m preparing to do now, today—assuming [...]

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Lammas Blessings and Gratitude – We did it!!

On 2 August 2011 By

Lammas morning—I woke up and saw that during the night we’d reached our first funding point on our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing movie.  Yesterday, I’d posted the update below on our Kickstarter page—hoping that we’d hit that landmark on Lammas, and we did!  Such good magic!

“August 1, Lammas, [...]

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Kickstarter Update #8: August 1 – Lammas, The Time of the Reaper

On 31 July 2011 By

August 1, Lammas, one of the eight key Celtic Pagan holidays on the Wheel of the Year.  Lammas, traditionally, was the beginning of the harvest, when the early crops are coming in and the summer fruits are ripe.  In Ireland, it was Lughnasad, the festival of the sun-God Lugh.  “Lammas” comes from “Loaf-mass”—the loaf made [...]

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On the Murders in Norway: The Need for a Multicultural Vision

On 29 July 2011 By

This summer has been a whirlwind of teaching permaculture and working on making a movie from my novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing.  But a few days ago I took a break to attend a performance of Guys and Dolls put on by SF Arts Education, in which my fifteen-year old Goddess-child Kore [...]

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Who is the Goddess in The Fifth Sacred Thing?

On 26 July 2011 By

“Who is the Goddess, Who is the Goddess?  We are!”

We sing these words each year at the big Spiral Dance ritual put on by Reclaiming, the spiritual network of teachers and ritual-makers I work with.

 

In The Fifth Sacred Thing, the Goddess is a character, much as Aywah is in Avatar.  Although the [...]

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TFST Novel excerpts – Maya addresses the Council

On 4 July 2011 By

“All war is first waged in the imagination, first conducted to limit our dreams and visions, to make us accept within ourselves its terms, to believe that our only choices are those that lay before us.  If we let the terms of force describe the terrain of our battle, we will lose.  But if we [...]

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Declaration of the Four Sacred Things

On 21 June 2011 By

The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.

Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and the body of the Mother, or as blessed gifts of a creator, or as symbols of the [...]

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