Archive for Mens Tradition

The Wheel Of The Year

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The Wheel of the year is basically a calendar of the 8 festivals called Sabbats celebrated by Wiccan’s and some other pagan paths. The wheel looks like a cartwheel with 8 spokes marking the sections of the year. The wheel is in 2 sections the first is the Quarters know as “the lesser Sabbats” or “quarter days”, these quarters mark the movement of the sun through the year with the vertical spokes marking the solstices and the horizontal spokes marking the equinoxes The second section represents the cross quarters “cross-quarter days,” “fire festivals,” or “Greater Sabbats”, these are a mix of Gaelic and Germanic festival but basically or from my understanding the cross quarters are the cycles of life and death. The truth be told the Wiccan Wheel of the Year as been made up and in fact at the very starting of Wicca only the Cross quarters where celebrated online pharmacy without prescription it was the Bricket Wood Coven that added the quarter days basically because the wanted more meeting They did this while Gerald Gardner was away although he did not object to the additions as this brought Wicca closer to Gardner’s Long time friend Ross Nichols’s Neo druidism groups the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Although this Wheel has no historical value in terms of reclaiming the Craft it is a valued addition to Wicca and in other pagan paths. For me the wheel is a great source of meditation, understanding of life and death, a reminder of the cycles in

Mens Traditions

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May be as a response to the women’s tradition, Dianic witchcraft or goddess worship the male tradition focuses on the male aspect of the divine. The aim of the men’s tradition is to help men connect with the male deity and male spirituality. The horned god is the principle deity although the path does include other archetypal male deities in the search for male orientated wisdom, strength and love. The men’s tradition is gathering force probably due to the fact that the rolls of men are changing within society. The men’s tradition is very much a boys club transforming itself from a pagan path in to much more of a tribal society where the focus is less on ritual and more on personal discovery of the newly awakening male spirituality. At the heart of the male traditions are the myths and traditions of Mithras or the literature of R J ‘Bob’ Stewart. Although strong influences have also come from John Rrowan and Robert Bly which have help to form the Men’s tradition in to a fast moving pagan path it is still a very young path but it fundamental ideas of searching for male spiritual identity away from the idea of the Christian “all powerful god” and the Wiccan concept as “The God as Consult”. Modern men have been looking for a way to distance themselves from defined rolls society has set for men allowing them to gain some personal power not only in their daily life’s but also the spiritual ones. . Recommended Reading