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"The truly great ones become less creators of art than conduits for the wild art that exists at large in the Universe."

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That line is a joke. Literally. It's spoken by a character in a play of mine, an actress pretending to be an author. It usually gets a big laugh. My playwriting is an integral part of my spiritual practice, part of honoring creative freedom, as we say in the Principles of Unity.

I was backstage during a performance of that play last month, and I thought, What if it's true? What if I am a conduit for the wild art that exists at large in the Universe?

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  • Molly
    Molly says #
    I LOVE it! I do feel like a conduit, of sorts, for my poems and my sculptures. They come through me, not from me. Like my kids, to

Earlier this week The Wild Hunt blog featured a report on CoG’s recently concluded MerryMeet/Grand Council, complete with photos of the new National Board.  What a change from my day!

There was a time when Witches (and Wiccans) kept deep within the broom closet, for all manner of reasons, most involving fear of discrimination at work, school, or housing.

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  • Robert Scott
    Robert Scott says #
    Well put, and thank you for sharing.
  • Richard Daley
    Richard Daley says #
    We can only hope that this trend continues.

Who is this flower above me,
And what is the work of this god?
I would know myself in all my parts.
~ Feri Flower Prayer

My work of late has been focused around surrender, specifically, surrendering to the moment and surrendering to the Gods. And first and foremost, I have to surrender to my Self, specifically, to my Godself.*

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We stand in a circle beside the enormous maple branches that lie across the road, a sort of honor guard to a fallen land Wight. Claire, on whose lot the maple stands, greets each newcomer by name; Susan, who lives across the road and has a gas stove, offers coffee to folks without power.

Scarlett informs us, with a seven-year-old's precision, that the kids (seven at last count, though the number fluctuates as neighboring families walk or cycle past, witnessing our changed landscape) have collected ten earthworms. They've all been presented to us as holy offerings before being released back to the greater Mystery that is the rain-soaked boulevard. Summer has arrived with a bang.

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My home Reclaiming community has launched a series of meetings to try to define ourselves as a community. What is our history? What are our values? What is our power structure, and how do we make decisions? Who, exactly, are "we" in the first place?

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It's 7:30 on a Sunday morning. I'm writing this in the home of Marianne and Dennis, who I don't think are awake yet. For company I have a cat named Skeksis and a young man named Lee. Skeksis is ignoring me. Lee is dead.

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  • hecate
    hecate says #
    Eli, I loved your post. And do want to mention for those interested in another resource, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Sta
  • Greybeard
    Greybeard says #
    This kind of loving care for each other is needed much more. I have no desire to be hauled off to some hospital to die surrounded
  • Eli Effinger-Weintraub
    Eli Effinger-Weintraub says #
    Thanks for the comment, Greybeard. I agree that being able to die in familiar surroundings with, if possible, family and friends n
  • Anne Newkirk Niven
    Anne Newkirk Niven says #
    I am so sorry for your loss, Eli. In other news, I'd be very happy if you wrote something about this work for our upcoming Elemen
  • Eli Effinger-Weintraub
    Eli Effinger-Weintraub says #
    Thanks, Anne. As I mentioned, most of us involved in the vigil had never met Lee in his life, but there was a sense of the loss t

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My wife and I spent last weekend at the third annual Paganicon, a gathering of Pagan-identifying folk from the Twin Cities area (and beyond). The Reclaiming presence continues to be small. Apart from my lovely wife and myself, and a couple friends we're slowly pulling into the Reclaiming orbit, I only spotted one person who positively identifies as being part of that nebulous entity known as "Paganistan Reclaiming".

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