Author: bruhinb

vera-deactivated20120928: Individual images taken of Venus in one year to create a full curve. The summer solstice being at the top, winter solstice at the bottom, and equinox where they lines cross. 

tet-asw: It is clear that people believe in preserving our history and setting up space for future generations to learn. One of the things that struck me during my time at the ground of the NAL was learning that some of the domes would not be complete in the lifetimes of the people are responsible for the creation of the...

(via Pagan Troop Donation Drive – South Jersey Pagan Pride Day)

Bountiful Harvest!

inothernews: SUNPRANCE   An analemma is that figure-8 curve that you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day throughout planet Earth’s year. In this case, 17 individual images taken between April 2 and September 16 follow half the analemma curve, looking east toward the rising sun and the Caspian sea from the boardwalk...

A hilarious adaptation of Aristophanes’s classic battle of the sexes. The women of Greece withhold sex from their men until they agree to stop warring! A timeless statement about men, women, war and love! Adapted by Robert Zaller, directed by Hannah Tsapatoris MacLeod, and starring Lili Bita. /////// THE THEATRE COOPERATIVE, founded in 1975, presents original, adapted, and avant-garde works...

tet-asw: Agora is the ancient greek word for the gathering-place or marketplace that was also the center of political and spiritual life in a city. Pagan businesses and the activities that they help to foster, can act as our agora. Within our community the idea of thinking globally but acting locally is very popular. I know many pagans that go...

The closing ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics was the opening many modern pagans were hoping for. The lyrical phrases calling on the spirits of autumn, winter, spring and summer, and the declaration that “The circle is unbroken, the ancestors awoken,”were part of a Druid ritual written in 1997.   Whether viewers realized it or not, they were encountering modern paganism.  “We have...

tet-asw: Shared experience and shared labor are two of the building blocks of authentic community that foster relationships and bonds that endure. I see people differently when I have experienced them in ritual. The memory of our voices joined in chanting connects me to them. The memory of weeding a labyrinth together and of moving wood together for a bonfire...