Tag Archive for relationships

Handfasting (Wedding)

handfasting handfasting

The following wedding ceremony was written to provide for Pagans who must of necessity be wed in the presence of the uninitiated who are not pagan and are perhaps unaware that the bride and groom are pagan. Replace the words Bride and Groom below with the names of the happy couple. This ceremony was used by both my wife and myself and by my sister and her husband. They modified the text at the point below where it says “loving each other wholly and completely” to add the phrase “forsaking all others” as they are into monogamy. Either version works beautifully, I recommend the participants rewrite where necessary to form a legal contract that they can and will keep. It is easy to avoid being an oathbreaker if you only swear to that you will keep and avoid swearing to something just because the other party wants it or because it might be “expected” by the family. Notice: parts of this ritual were cribbed from the writings of others. I apologize in advance for failure to reference sources but after the fifteenth rewrite we had forgotten where we got the text and what was and what was not original to us. I doubt if there are quotes from other sources longer than paragraph length and thus should not be a copyright problem. If you see something that is yours, please send me mail and I will reference you in the future. Our thanks to those who paved the way. Ryan Hunter [PRIEST] We have come

Inspired by a walk

grave grave

As I felt today was to much of a day to waste sitting indoors at the PC I decided to go for a walk and connect with some divine inspiration from the moment I sacrificed a day of work to a higher purpose my mind speed to the idea of love, life and being me. As soon as I decided that today was going to be a wash I put some music on had a dance and a jiggle and sung really badly along as I ran the hover around and as I was cleaning my life and my lovers ran through my mind. Along that journey there have been a few lovers some that lasted many years others that lasted mere weeks (days) but as I remembered the god and bad relationships I had no regrets (although at the time I did). As the day went on the thought of love filled my mind and my mind wandered to a Facebook fan Lynne and her impending hand fasting anniversary and started to think about the effort that we put into our relationships. And I began to think of my best friend and the closeness of our relationship how we can be so attuned even when we are on different wavelengths and the wonder I share just by being near her and her family. Being that I don’t have much of a family myself I realise that she helped to complete many of my dreams and hopes. As a gay man I will never be

Hate and Forgiveness

thougt thougt

Well it all started with this mornings thought for the day on our face book page. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend”. William Blake A strange little sentence, which got me thinking, from the comments, I received from both the comment on my profile page and the cyber cauldron page about forgiveness and enemies and the pagan view. As I sat and thought and racked my brains about forgiveness I could not call to mind any text that covered this subject from the pagan viewpoint not saying that there is not any path that does not have guidelines on forgiveness. In fact across the spectrum of pagan paths, which range from the fluffy bunnies that forgive everyone for everything to the warrior paths who will smite their enemies some guidelines, do exist. But what is the level of forgiveness that is correct does the amount of forgiveness depend on the act. When we forgive someone for the act we give up something a form of hate really that lighten our karmic burdens. But it can be very difficult to give away the hate for some it may feel that by forgiving someone we may be hurting another’s memory or their feelings or even betraying our own personal Viagra Online views. Each person must choose who to forgive and why they are forgiving that person the idea of forgiven and not forgotten springs to mind that even when years have past that the memory of hurt can return proving that

Origins of Love–Soul Mates

Origin of love Origin of love

Whenever I think of love there is one song that always seem to explain love to me. It’s based on Plato’s Symposium. February is a month is a month when everyone has love on his or her mind. The problem is love is just being a relationship with someone. Love never comes in the packages we desire or when we want it to, love is the most surprising thing. Love is something that comes in many forms from the love we share with family and friends, the love we share with lovers to the most unexpected loves that can destroy us or improve us. Whatever type of love it is it a sacred gift a gift from the divine the ability to share ourselves completely with another person. For many years I would describe love as an emotion often discussed but rarely felt, mainly because I had not found my soul mate I had been relationships some very good but always doomed to end but that’s just life we are always searching for that perfect person. Now I can remember a friend telling me when I was about 16 never to look for love as love will only arrive when your not looking for it. I never understood that statement until I met my soul mate as I was not looking for love and did really need to be in a relationship as I had to many other things going on at the time. But without noticing I got a cupid bow in my ass