Ariadne's Tribe: Minoan Spirituality for the Modern World
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Labrys & Horns: A second go-round
At the beginning of this year I looked back over 2019 in Ariadne's Tribe, musing about how far we've come over such a short time. Writing that post, of course, led me to look back over the years before that, and some things I need to update.
I started the Ariadne's Tribe Facebook group in 2014 because I was looking for other people who were interested in Minoan spirituality. By late 2015, to my utter astonishment, we had a sizable number of members, a pantheon, a sacred calendar, and a set of common practices. At that point, people started asking me to write it all down in a book so they would have a single resource to draw from.
So I wrote Labrys & Horns. Writing it was a great way to solidify our practices, to set down who we are and what we do and how we relate to the Minoan deities. I published the book in 2016.
Four years later, we've added new deities to the pantheon and new festivals to the sacred calendar. We've almost finished developing a standardized ritual format for both solitaries and groups (I hope to give it its first public outing at Mystic South this summer). [UPDATE: The pandemic intervened, and we did our first public ritual at Mystic South in 2022. You can find our ritual format on our website here.] I'm amazed at how far we've come and how fast we've done it. But that means that Labrys & Horns is now out of date.
I debated for quite a while whether I should revise the book and add the new information, or whether I should wait and see whether we have even more changes to make to our pantheon and practices. But both divination and advice from people I trust suggest that I should go head and compile it all in a second edition of the book. I think we may have reached a place where we'll stay for a while, maybe for a very long while.
So that's my project for the first half of this year: revise and update Labrys & Horns. I plan to have the new second edition available at Mystic South, if not before. So wish me luck... I'm off to do some writing and editing!
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