Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth

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An Invitation from the Temple of the Moon

Here at Temple of the Moon, we offer and pray twice daily to the Moon and the Horned for the health and well-being of pagans everywhere.

In numbers lies efficacy. No matter where you are, you can join your prayers to ours.

Here's how.

 

(Note: The Threefold Salute is a gesture of reverence and affirmation that takes several forms:

Threefold Salute

Touch heart, lips, and brow

or

Touch brow, lips, and heart

or

[if you're really pious and/or spry]

Touch brow, lips, and heart

Bow, touch ground

Rising, touch heart, lips, and brow)

 

Daily Offering, with Threefold Prayer

 Face the Moon

or

Stand before image

or

Face the nearest local holy place.

 

Threefold Salute

 

Light Incense

 

Bidding Prayer

Greet the Horned and the Moon.

Ask Them to receive your incense and hear your prayer.

Pray as you will.

 

Closing Prayer

From Samhain to Beltane, say:

Blue Coat crowned with antler

(in Summer, Red),

that sit cross-legged in the Mother's heart and womb,

to you, to you my Stag, I make my prayer:

May the people have life

(so mote it be)

Threefold Salute

May the people have food

(so mote it be)

Threefold Salute

May the people have beauty

(so mote it be).

Threefold Salute

 

From Beltane to Samhain, say:

Red Coat crowned with antler

(in Winter, Blue),

that sit cross-legged in the Mother's heart,

to you, to you my Stag, I make my prayer:

May the people have life

(so mote it be)

Threefold Salute

May the people have food

(so mote it be)

Threefold Salute

May the people have beauty

(so mote it be).

Threefold Salute

 

Hymn

Sing a hymn or praise song.

 

End with a

Bow

or

Prostration

or

Threefold Salute

 

The incense burns until it burns itself out. Whenever you smell it, remember your prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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