Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth

In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.

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Feel the Pour

It's one of the older conundrums in the ritualist's book.

You're pouring at a public ritual. You've brought the libation. You paid for it, so the other attendees have no investment, no personal stake in it.

How, then, do you get them to feel the pour?

Here's my recommendation: beautiful as it is, leave grandma's silver libation ewer at home.

Pour straight from the bottle.

And pour out the whole thing.

Every last drop.

We're human beings. We see wine (or whatever), we want some.

But no, I'm sorry, this is not for you. It's for Someone Else. All of it.

That's why they call it sacrifice.

At the start of last summer's Midwest Grand Sabbat, we poured out a bottle of Jameson to Thunder and asked him to be kindly to our gathering throughout.

And kindly he was, indeed.

And every last person in the circle felt that pour, believe you me.

To the very last drop, we felt it.

 

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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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  • Tony Lima
    Tony Lima Monday, 20 June 2016

    Paganism in its rightful way under scientific knowledge at large, is probably better than Christianity.

  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch Tuesday, 21 June 2016

    Every system of thought has its own inherent flaws.
    That's why we have to keep changing.

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