Twelve Healing Stars is a yearlong project in cooperation with the Temple of Witchcraft that explores social justice through the lessons of the 12 Zodiac Signs. This is part four.
“I wear the chains I forged in life”
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Some More Ways in Which Inmate Circles Differ from Civilian Circles
In previous blogs I’ve mentioned various differences and restrictions that affect how we can work and what we can and cannot do. We can burn candles and incense, and we have created a temporary temple space.
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Another great post Macha! Those men appreciate you for every slice of your scissors and your presence alone makes all the differe
“Ministry”?
We Pagans, at least most of us, or at least most of us in our incipient forms, worked in small, intimate, closed circles. We had no concept of ‘ministry’ as such.
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Perhaps, Sam, you are correct about your experience and your education. However, that has not been my experience from an entire c -
"I think that term carries baggage from its use in the Christian context that implies that clergy people either know more, or are
Altars
As I mentioned in a previous post, our altar went from a 24” square of white cloth with two pillar candles, a leather pentacle about 4” across, a stick of incense, a bowl and a shaker of salt to one with larger purple altar cloth bearing a Celtic design, an abalone shell, some feathers, and a chunk of amethyst crystal.
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Next Steps
Now that we have the banners, we await other supplies, primary among them being incense.
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Be advised that I will have no photos to illustrate anything that goes on inside the prison walls unless I happen to come across them on the Web. Needless to say, we volunteers are not permitted to bring cameras inside.
Neither will I be revealing any names or personal descriptions that might indicate the identity of anyone other than our supervising chaplain and myself.
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Macha, your experiences are very similar to mine, though the prison I volunteer at is much smaller -- only a few hundred men. I br
Why We Work in a Sacred Circle
Some non-witchen Pagans have criticized Witches and Wiccans who do interfaith work and in other ways represent the Pagan movement and Pagan religions in secular situations for what they consider to be witchen-centrism, for want of a better term. In the next few blogs I’ll attempt to describe the reality of the situation, and why I, ostensibly serving a Wiccan circle, in reality am about as eclectic as one can be. First, the setting…
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