Pagan Values
~International Pagan Values Blogging Month 2009~
~June 2009~
It all began so simply, one day on May 11th 2009.
Dear Pagani,
I have decided that I am tired at how some factions within other spiritual and faith traditions talk and act as if they have a monopoly on values and virtue and ethics.
Therefore I am issuing a call and a challenge to my fellow Pagan netizens…
In June the sun is at it’s height in the Northern Hemisphere and nearly hidden from view in the Southern Hemisphere. Midsummer and Yule, festivals of fire and of light.
Let us then use our hearts and minds and words, invoking the fires of inspiration; let us write of the virtues and ethics and morals and values we have found in our Pagan paths, let us share how we carry these precious things forward in our own lives and out into the world.
Join me, in the month of June 2009 in writing about Pagan values.
Interested parties are asked to link to this post, and to list their blog in the comments section of this post.
Peace,
Pax
I posted it here, and kind of just let it go for a little while… but then folks started taking interest! People started linking and posting and it grew into a big ol’ blog carnival with 100+ posts, and counting as I find more. Some folks were moved to post but didn’t make it in June… if they had mentioned wanting to post durring June, or if it was early enough in July, I included it… I of all people am familiar with how our everyday lives through up challenges to us and sometimes this plays havoc with our intentions or timimg!
I am linking this page to as many of the Values posts as I can find in the hopes of providing an online snap shot of, and resource for the study of, contemporary Pagan values.
~~International Pagan Values Blogging Month 2009~~
May 4th ( Synchronicity and Honorable Mention!!)
Pagan Parents On The Edge ~ So What About These So Called Values
This link is included here, even though it was posted before the call went out. I didn’t encounter this podcast or article until sometime in the middle of June, I take it as a sign that the IPVBM event was the right idea at the right time.
May 11th
Chrysalis ~ June 2009 is International Pagan Values Blogging Month!
May 13th
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~ June 2009 is International Pagan Values Blogging Month!
May 24th
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~ The Peace Testimony and Armed Forces Emergency Services
May 25th
reaching for the light ~ Pagan Values
May 26th
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~Speaking of Pagan Values: Cherry Hill Seminary on Same Gender Marriage
May 28th
May 30th
Witchmoot ~ Ethics, Duplication, Strider, and the Double Edged Sword of Pagan Leadership ~ Two Snakes
(Note: Witchmoot is a fabulous collaborative blog, TwoSnakes is the author…)
May 31st
June 1st
The Gods Are Bored ~ Pagan Values Month: Learning Morals from CSNY
Witchmoot ~ Pagan Values, What Are They Exactly? ~ Dawn
Vanic Thoughts ~ The Sevenfold Goal: Freoð
Xi O’teaz ~ International Pagan Values Month: coming to Terms
June 3rd
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~ Ranya Hamre speaking at Inter-Faith Press Conference in Orange County, Ca, May 28, 2009
June 4th
Sannion ~ The Greco-Egyptian Value of Not Being a Dick-Head
KALLISTI: An Apple in Pandemonium ~ Personal Values Inspired by Hellenic Polytheism
The Temple of Joy ~ International Pagan Values Blogging Month
Broomstcik Chronicles ~ Thinking of Colors
In The Limnal Realm ~ International Pagan Values Blogging Month
Vanic Thoughts ~ The Sevenfold Goal: Gástedóm
Cari Ferraro ~ Sophia’s Breasts of Wisdom
Druid Journal ~ Pagan Values: Ecology, Environmentalism & Practical Pacifism
The Gods Are Bored ~ Medical Ethics
Full Circle ~ The Witches Ball: When A Party Stands for Pagan Values
A Heathen’s Day ~ Pagan Values Month – Heathen Values
Witchmoot ~ Universal Pagan Values? ~ Two Snakes
June 5th
Walk of the Fallen ~ Bottled Words
Cavalorn ~ Post for Pagan Values Month
The Temple of Joy ~ More on Values
The Song and The Flame ~ My Pagan Values: Piety
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ Some Basic Historical Pagan Values From Various Places
Xi O’teaz ~ Pagan Values Month, continued (part 2)
June 7th
Diana Rajchel ~ June is Pagan values month!
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~ P is for Polytheitic
Changing Seal Woman ~ Pagan Values Blogging Month #1: Sexual Values
The Stroppy Rabbit ~ Stop Calling us NeoPagans
June 8th
Peacock Dreams ~ The Value of Destruction and What Follows
Sharon Knight ~ June is Pagan Values Blogging Month
Changing Seal Woman ~ Pagan Values Blogging Month #2: The Wiccan Rede
Vanic Thoughts ~ The Sevenfold Goal Mægen
Full Circle ~ The Arguments We Have With Ourselves
She Who Seeks ~ Values on the Goddess Path, Part 1
June 9th
Changing Seal Woman ~ Pagan Values Blogging Month #3: Personal Responsibility
Vanic Thoughts ~ The Sevenfold Goal Gearowitolnes
“Pagan Values Blogging Month In honor of “Pagan Values Blogging Month,” here’s my brief essay on the Pagan value of personal responsibility:While not all pagans ascribe to the same moral doctrines, such as the Wiccan Rede’s “An it harm none do what ye will,” all Pagan paths share a world view where the individual’s unique experience is respected, and the individual is ultimately responsible for their own actions. While this may sound self-centered and selfish, the practice of “knowing oneself” ultimately leads to well-balanced individuals, stronger communities and a healthier planet. Pagans believe that there is no authority that stands in the way of their communicating directly to the gods. This gives Pagans the power to change their own lives, and fosters an intense introspection. When there is no one telling you what to do, you have a responsibility to understand all parts of yourself. There are no excuses for acting badly without consciousness or consequence. Trusting in your own experience and following your own truth also creates an acceptance and tolerance for other people, and their unique truths. Being responsible for one’s spiritual self often fosters self-reliance in the practical world. Many traditional skills from the past that pagans frequently practice are doorways that lead to spiritual insights that we otherwise would not understand. Practicing brewing and distilling spirits and medicines will reveal mysteries of Alchemy. Planting a garden and tending it through every season of the year gives one a personal connection to the traditional agrarian pagan holidays. Cooking and practicing the art of Hospitality puts you in touch with the spirit of our ancestors who treated guests like visiting gods. Artists of all kinds use their skills to channel the divine to the benefit of their audience. Paganism offers a lot of freedom, but the nature of that freedom requires a lot of work in the spiritual, personal, and practical realms. Skills and talents honed by people who are driven to be their own masters, have the added benefit of being healing, earth-friendly, social, and a lot of fun.”
June 10th
Vanic Thoughts ~ The Sevenfold Goal Cystignes
Diana Rajchel ~ Pagan values month: informed consent
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~ My Pagan Values
Musings of a Kitchen Witch ~ Valued Ideas and Ideal Values
Donald L. Engstrom-Reese ~ June 2009 is International Pagan Values Blogging Month
Full Circle ~ The Lady and the Rose
the dance of the elements ~ Pagan values
June 11th
Vanic Thoughts ~ The Sevenfold Goal Lufu
Musings of a Kitchen Witch ~ Valued Ideals and Ideal Values: Respect
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ Embracing The Shadow
June 12th
June 13th
Silver Maple ~ Pagan Values – Spiritual Gardening
Pagan Culture ~ Eclectic Pagan Values: Creativity, Equality, Love…
Wyvernreabbit ~ On Self Reliance and Being Pagan
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ Ear to the Ground
Full Circle ~ Carol P. Christ on Pagan Values
June 14th
At the end of desire ~ Pagan values, a brief introduction
The Infinite and The Beyond ~ IPVBM 2009: #1 Proselytization
Chrysalis ~ Musings on Flag Day, Religio Americana, and the Power of Words
Donald L. Engstrom-Reese ~ Pagan Values: Deep Pleasure
Witches Brew ~ My Pagan Values
June 15th
At the end of desire ~ So what makes those Pagan values?
An Opinionated Heathen ~ Frith
Doing The Improbable, One Step at a Time ~ #73 and respecting June as Pagan Values Month
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ Price Of Power
Full Circle ~ Kiva and Microlending: Helping To Lift Others Out of Poverty
June 16th
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom
June 17th
At the end of desire ~ Pagan values: immanence
Politics and Polytheism ~ Sources of Values
Half_Double ~ International Pagan Values Blogging Month: The Obligatory Crotchety post
June 18th
At the end of desire ~ Pagan values: pleasure and beauty
Musings of a Quaker Witch ~ The Growth of Political Violence in the United States
Peacock Dreams ~ Values, Religion, Debate
June 19th
June 20th
Musings of a Kitchen Witch ~ Valued Ideals and Ideal Values: Plurality
The Pagan & The Pen ~ The Values of a Reformed Druid
Lilies and Cedar and Cord ~ International Pagan Values Blogging Month
June 21st
The Infinite and The Beyond ~ IPVBM 2009: #2 Thelemic Ethics
June 22nd
Kallisti: An Apple in Pandemonium ~ Walking the Middle Path
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ With All This Bathwater, There Has To Be A Baby In Here Somewhere
June 23rd
A Pagan Journey ~ Pagan Values
June 24th
Half_Double ~ International Pagan Values Blogging Month: Trust Me
A Pagan Journey ~ More on Pagan Values: Honoring Mother Earth
June 25th
Diana Rajchel ~ Back to the Pagan Values discussion: Premarital Sex
through the radiant dark ~ On Eating Meat and Other Tangents (or Pagan Values: Respecting All Life)
Full Circle ~ Learners Inherit the Earth
Thought Soup ~ And the Winner is…. Pagan Values: Courage
June 26th
June 27th
June 28th
Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant ~ Reality is Messy
A Green Witch ~ A Quick Overview Of My Ethics
June 29th
June 30th
Donald L. Engstrom-Reese ~ The Pagan Value of the Sacred Living Flesh
Half_Double ~ International Pagan Values Blogging Month: My Pentacle of Pagan Values
Pentacles and Pavement ~ A Witch’s Responsibilities
July 2nd
Musings of a Kitchen Witch ~ Valued Ideals and Ideal Values: Sacredness
July 3rd
Witches Brew ~ Five Fundamental Moral Values
July 17th
Sannion ~ Learning: The Chief of the Greco-Egyptian Values
July 22nd
Musings of a Kitchen Witch ~ Valued Ideals and Ideal Values: Experiential Gnosis
July 24th
Sannion ~ The Value of the Egyptian sages
Sannion ~ Bringing the Outsider in: Thoughts on the God Seth and religious tolerance within Greco-Egyptian polytheism
July 29th
Chrysalis ~ “Pagan” Values: or Pax gets something off his chest
Undated (but recorded within the right time-frame)
For the sake of completeness, let me note that I also had a PVM post on June 1st…
You missed mine!
http://erl-queen.livejournal.com/172368.html
Erik and Oinokhoe,
Thank you, and added! I suspect there will be more than a few additions in the short term as the motherboard on my old computer had a melt-down… as did I when I started to go through Internet withdrawal…
Peace,
Pax
I had a whole series of them in my LJ, but as that is a friends-only journal, there’s little point in making links to them…
If you decide to (or find) a way to share, please let me know?
I probably won’t change the settings on my LJ to allow it to be viewed publicly anytime soon (not with Akins and the like still lurking about)…
However, I am going to see if I can edit those entries (which total around 30-odd thousand words at present) into a book of some sort, and get it published…I’ll certainly update you on that if it occurs!
You know that’s a fabulous idea!! Heck maybe someday your posts will be taught at Cherry Hill when it goes University!
http://magicalmuse.typepad.com/magical_musings/2009/06/pagan-values.html
You missed mine too… but its not your fault, no one knows I’m out there. I type quietly.
http://sandy.serveblog.net/Sandy/post/And-the-Winner-is-Pagan-Values-Courage.aspx
(grin)
“SHHH!! Be Vewy, vewy qwiet! We are bwogging!”
(said as he adds the link to the page)
Hi Pax – slightly surprised that you have the wrong one of my blogposts listed above as a contribution to Pagan Values month.
My Pagan values contribution was at Dance of the elements: http://heartofflame.blogspot.com/2009/06/pagan-values.html
(not the one at Stroppy Rabbit, that was just a random rant!)
I also had a go at compiling some of the posts over at MetaPagan – you might like to check to see if you missed anything. http://metapagan.blogspot.com/2009/06/pagan-values.html
Sorry,
My motherboard on my old computer died in the second week of June, so I know I missed recording at least a couple of posts! I am slowly getting that corrected.
I’ve added the hear of flame post, and with your permission would like to keep the Stroppy Rabbit post linked as even if it was a random rant it perfectly meshed into my own readings and thoughts that month, and helped me react to some things more reasonably?
Peace Pax
PS- I THINK I linked the metapagan articles that weren’t otherwise linked, but will be combing over them as I am able!