Comments on: “What Now?” ~ Pagan Community Builders

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Leadership, Community Building, and Clann-makers « Chrysalis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:39:02 +0000

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By: Civic Holidays and Pagan Rituals « Chrysalis

Civic Holidays and Pagan Rituals « Chrysalis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:42:41 +0000

[...] Chrysalis One Witches Journey « A few thoughts before working on todays post… Civic Holidays and Pagan Rituals March 16, 2009 “We need to start looking at celebrating open and public rituals and observances at CIVIC holidays, not only to show our lager communities who and what Pagans are and are about; but to also deepen and expand ourselves as Pagans and our relationships with the spirits of our ancestors and of our Nations, and of the World around us; and to further build and strengthen our communities!” Pax ~ from a previous wrant… [...]

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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:12:56 +0000

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By: Pax

Pax — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:47:32 +0000

Hey Jarred,

The Pagan Religious Rights Rally of… I believe it was 2007 in D.C. had a great example of a Pagan observance at a Civic Holiday.. (it was on july 4th)

Sadly
http://www.paganreligiousrights.org/ritual.htm
Do not have the ritual online anymore at their site… I haven’t had time to download or look through or look at the video of their recent “sweep D.C. clean ritual” yet…

You might also check out some of the thoughts on the Religio Americana group…

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/religio-americana/

Ceisiwr Serith’s links section also has some useful stuff in it for a budding Civic ritualist…

http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/sugglinks.htm

I will post something on Civic rituals a little later this week…

PEace,
Pax

By: Jarred

Jarred — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:28:31 +0000

I think that his theme of growth and development leads us quite naturally into engagement with other branches of Paganism, and from there into engagement with the rest of Society.

I totally agree with this statement. I also like the inclusion of the last phrase, as it speaks of spreading our networks out as far as possible. I think it’s important to remember that Pagan communities are just another subset of the greater community that is humanity.

I’m also fascinate by your suggestion celebrating open rituals and observances at civic holidays. Do you have any particular examples in mind and how they might look?

I may also have to check out your group.