Orbs

I love seeing these. Every now and again a superb one gets captured on camera but not as clear as this one.

If any of you guys have a good photo please send it to me via the web site and ill create a page with all the info on them.

Blessings to all.

Email your Pics to me at paganpagesuk follow the link to the right>

What a lovely day.

Well i don't know about you but here in Nuneaton the day is wonderful. I work at night but could'nt ignore the sun streaming through my 'BLACK OUT CURTAINS' lol.

I was up and out to light some inscence to our great Goddess and God and took a few little picks along the way.

This is our out door alter to the Green man and is one i love looking at from our kitchen window. I think it is important to wrap yourself around all things to do with your chosen deity(s) to make all apart of your life. It helps to immerse your feelings and soul, to worship your Goddess and God how you see fit.. Oh and my little mate just popped in to view what was going on... Smokey Joe. . We laugh at her because she has a bottomless pit for a belly..always hungry!!

Bright Blessings on this fine day.

Time to Think!!

Hi Guys.

A week or so ago i received the new CD from my favourite Pagan singer Damh the Bard. One of the tracks on his CD titled ' Only Human ' moved me so much that i cut short doing my Ostara blessings video to do an accompaniment to this song.

The song itself is very moving and i found it very hard to create a video to put over to you all what i and I'm sure lots of others feel about what goes on around us in everyday life and what impact our actions have .... So i won't say enjoy the video but i will say think!! Try to make a difference some way in your life.

Bright Blessings to all of you. Lee (paganboynuneaton)

Time to change.........Please!

WHY RECYCLE?

When it comes down to it why not recycle. A bit of effort and it actually becomes a part of your every day life.
I here many say that 'I pay my council tax the council can do it' an element of that little gem of a statement is true but can you imagine how much your council tax would go up by.
At the moment where I live a hand full of people in the street bother to recycle they just cant be bothered, so why not get one person to go around the streets placing a little envelope through the door reminding people to do there part or a fine will be issued. Obviously there will be exceptions to this but if people keep having this attitude the council will get tough, and to be honest I hope they do.
If they were to start sorting your rubbish at the tip the amount of people to do this task and machinery would be unbelievable. The set up alone would come into millions.
The things that can be recycled now are great. Everything is the word. So if the council were to adopt this scheme then they would have to do a 100% policy.
Myself, family including friends all do there bit, our council collects the usual stuff and will except the other items at the rubbish tip.
So please where ever you live, DO YOUR PART.
We cannot keep treating our earth mother like this. Ignorance and attitude needs to change within every country,state,county and towns to villages.
THANKS FOR READING.

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http://www.recyclenow.com/what_more_can_i_do/can_it_be_recycled/index.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAO0WXUDhOE

The Pagan origins of the Easter Bunny [Ostara]

Have you ever wondered where the celebration of the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and odd symbols of colored eggs and rabbits?
The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices. After discovering that people were more reluctant to give up their holidays and festivals than their gods, they simply incorporated Pagan practices into Christian festivals. As recounted by the Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer, clever clerics copied Pagan practices and by doing so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan folk reluctant to give up their festivals for somber Christian practices.
In second century Europe, the predominate spring festival was a raucous Saxon fertility celebration in honor of the Saxon Goddess Eastre (Ostara), whose sacred animal was a hare.

By Jennifer Emick.

http://altreligion.about.com/cs/alchemy/a/mpreviss.htm

What is Wicca?

What is Wicca?
Wicca is one of the most influential traditions of modern Paganism. Also known by the name Witchcraft, it began to emerge publicly in its modern form in the late 1940's. It is an initiatory path, a mystery tradition that guides its initiates to a deep communion with the powers of Nature and of the human psyche, leading to a spiritual transformation of the self. Women who follow this path are initiated as Priestesses and men are initiated as Priests.
'Wicca is both a religion and a Craft. ... As a religion - like any other religion - its purpose is to put the individual and the group in harmony with the divine creative principal of the Cosmos, and its manifestation at all levels. As a Craft, its purpose is to achieve practical ends by psychic means, for good, useful and healing purposes. In both aspects, the distinguishing characteristics of Wicca are its Nature- based attitude, its small group autonomy with no gulf between priesthood and 'congregation', and its philosophy of creative polarity at all levels, from Goddess and God to Priestess and Priest.'
Janet and Stewart Farrar, Eight Sabbats For Witches, Robert Hale, London, 1981.
Wicca is sometimes called the Craft of the Wise, or, more commonly, the Craft.
Those wishing to be initiated must be at least 18 years of age. Wicca does not seek converts and initiation is never offered. Initiation must be asked for and is only given to those who have proved themselves suitable. It is traditional to wait a year and a day before being accepted into the Craft, although in practice this varies.
In Britain, there are a number of Craft traditions: Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Traditional, Hereditary (Family), Dianic and Hedgewitch. In other countries, other traditions have evolved to reflect their own culture. Gardnerians claim lineage from Gerald Gardner, who was most responsible for the revival of the modern Craft. Alexandrians descend from Alex and Maxine Sanders, who developed Gardner's ideas. Traditionalists claim their methods pre-date the modern revival and have been passed down from generation to generation. Hereditaries claim their traditions have been passed on by particular families through relations of blood and marriage. Dianic craft is based on feminist principles and Hedgewitches follow a more solitary path.
For some practitioners of the Craft, Witchcraft and Wicca are seen as two distinct paths, for others, the boundaries between the two are more blurred. Certainly, the word "Wicca" is less evocative and emotive than "Witchcraft" but whatever their perceived differences, they both share the same commonality in their beliefs and practises.
Witches celebrate eight seasonal festivals called Sabbats. Craft rituals, like all Pagan rites, are often conducted out of doors and involve simple rites to celebrate the seasons and the gift of life. Craft ritual is a means of contacting the Divine beyond our individual lives, but also a way of understanding our inner psyche and contacting the Divine within.
Witchraft is a path of magic and love, the movement of a deep poetry of the soul, a sharing and joining with the mysteries of Nature and the Old Gods.

For me it fits everything that i am.The life of a wiccan can be as you wish there are no guidelines the only thing to follow is the Rede & remember no path is right or wrong...

My Wife is not Wiccan, she just wants to be the best person she can but in this she is a true Pagan [even though she hates to be tagged with anything]

More info on Wicca

http://www.crystalinks.com/wicca.html

The Full Wiccan Rede

My Lovely wife got me this today.
Its the full Wiccan Rede and is a very good read. The origins of the Rede have many conflicting views but here are some quote's i found.

The Wiccan Rede is the rule governing Wiccan behavior. It permits Wiccans to engage in any carefully considered action, as long as it harms nobody, including themselves. The Rede is reinforced by the Threefold Law. This is the belief that any harm or good that a Wiccan does to someone else comes back to hurt or benefit them -- magnified three times over. Both are mentioned in the Wiccan Credo, a poem about Wicca whose origin is unclear.

The Wiccan Credo:
The Wiccan Credo is a Wiccan poem. Some Wiccans believe that it was written circa 1910 CE by Adriana Porter. Others suggest that it was created during the very early years of Gardnerian Witchcraft, during the 1940s and 1950s. 1 It includes the text of the main Wiccan rule of behavior, the Wiccan Rede, and a reference to the Threefold Law.
The third last stanza refers to the Threefold Law. It states, in part:
"Mind the Threefold Law you should,Three times bad and three times good."
The end of the Credo contains one version of the Wiccan Rede. It reads:
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:An' it harm none,Do what ye will.Blessed Be to thee."

"Rede" is derived from an Old English word "roedan" which means to guide or direct.

Origin of the Wiccan Rede:
The original source for at least part of the Wiccan Rede appears to be by a 16th century novelist, François Rabelais.
"DO AS THOU WILT because men that are free, of gentle birth, well bred and at home in civilized company possess a natural instinct that inclines them to virtue and saves them from vice. This instinct they name their honor."
This concept appears to have been adopted by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) in his Law of Thelema which is contained in his 1904 book Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law). Many believe that Crowley received the text of the Law from an angelic entity named Aiwass:
"Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

Later in the Book of the Law is a verse which states: "Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God."

Excerpts from these two verses are sometimes quoted together as two commandments: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." "Love is the law, love under will."
Ellie Crystal writes: "Most Thelemites hold that every person possesses a True Will, a single overall motivation for their existence. The Law of Thelema mandates that each person follow their True Will to attain fulfillment in life and freedom from restriction of their nature. Because no two True Wills can be in real conflict ...this Law also prohibits one from interfering with the True Will of any other person."

Crowley initiated Gerald Gardiner into the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) in 1946. Gardner may have taken the phrase from Rabelais and Crowley: "do what thou wilt," grafted it onto a clear, unambiguous expression to do no harm, and produced the Wiccan Rede as we know it today.
An alternative explanation is that the Rede was extracted directly from the Wiccan Credo which some Wiccans believe was written circa 1910 CE by Adriana Porter.