Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth

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A Midsummer Invocation to Earth and Her Two Husbands

(Horn)

Let us lift up our hands.

 

On this Midsummer's Day

I call to Earth, mighty mother of us all,

and I ask that through the summer to come

our gardens may bear abundantly,

 so that through this time

and through the winter to come

we may have plenty to eat.

And let us all say:

So mote it be.

 

And on this Midsummer's Day

I call to Earth's right-hand husband, the Sun,

and I ask that through the summer to come

you shall give us your glorious gift of light

in abundance, but not in excess,

so that through this time

and through the winter to come

we may have plenty to eat.

And let us all say:

So mote it be.

 

And on this Midsummer's Day

I call to Earth's left-hand husband, Thunder,

and I ask that through the summer to come

you shall give us your glorious gift of rain

in abundance, but not in excess,

so that through this time

and through the winter to come

we may have plenty to eat.

And let us all say:

So mote it be.

 

Earth, Sun, Thunder:

to you, to you, to you

I pour.

 

(Libation is poured.)

 

And let us all say:

So mote it be.

 

(Horn)

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.

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  • Aline "Macha" O'Brien
    Aline "Macha" O'Brien Thursday, 23 June 2016

    I wish I'd had this before I went to San Quentin on Saturday. Of course, we can have neither horn nor libation; we could use water.

  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch Friday, 24 June 2016

    Does the Catholic chaplain use wine at mass? How is that different?

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