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Care Soror Starhawk,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Thank you for sharing a personal note about your history and studies in ancient Judea. You most likely know this and is worth mentioning here, that the ancient Hebrews, Israelites, Judeans were culturally Pagan and not monotheistic followers of the Jerusalemite priest caste. In archaeological excavations statues and pottery inscriptions of Asherah and Shekinah have been found in Israelite dwellings dated up to last Roman rebellions. Paganism and Goddess worship are just as important to Hebrew religious history as is it to the Europeans who lost their native beliefs and practices to patriarchal religious domination.

Blessed Be and Goddess Bless!

Love is the law, love under will.

Fr.LVX

I had been an initiated Witch for many years when I had, with a friend traveled two miles into the woods to find a place to call our own. A place that we could have our celebrations. We found it and settled down. Made our sacred space, planted some herbs, had a tent and built a fireplace. The place had been an old pioneer site... we found the mounds of what was left, covered in brush and trees. In the mounds were burned scraps of logs and a hearth stone,turned to almost black glass, and many square nails. We found all kinds of broken pottery and artifacts of interest.

There was Wisteria growing through the trees in the summer...a miracle in itself...and an old hand dug well, it's stone walls fallen down. We named it Mother's Well, and the water was cold and fresh.

This is a very long story with many happenings, but I will cut to the chase.

One MidSummer afternoon we were in the Circle and it was after all the ritual was over, before closing down things..and we were circling in dance...all those not Pagan will not understand this..
We were circling and circling, the music was playing softly and the sun was high over head..and the trees were bending in the breeze, and there above us high, were birds whirling in circles..and the trees were bending, and we were circling..and the birds were dancing and the trees were dancing and we were dancing and we were one.

And we were One...the sun, the trees, the birds, the wind and earth, all those in the circle...and even those who down through the ages met in palces like that grove in the Kentucky woods...we are one.

That is not why I am a follower of Witchcraft, but just one more reason.

Blessed be..

Me too.

I want to share this quote from Henry David Thoreau. Thank you.

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring
cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round, -for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost, -do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Every man has to
learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and
the infinite extent of our relations.

I'm really enjoying your entries on this site. You offer some much needed balance. When I first started learning about Paganism I felt as if I'd come home. It was such an obvious fit for me after having explored a number of different spiritual paths.

Thanks for the work you do.

Its nice to see some balance from other spiritual leaders, over the predominately Christian panelist responses.

peace

I too am glad to see a Wiccan on the panel. If there is a “God” or “Goddess” to be found it's proof will be found to exist in nature, and not in ancient literature, of that much I am convinced.

I didn't know that they had a Wiccan on the panel. It's nice to see that the WaPo folks are serious about this being a discussion between all faiths.

A wonderful statement, Starhawk.

So happy to see you on this panel. And, thanks for being!