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Surva: a Balkan Pagan New Year’s celebration
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Gus diZerega
Surva is an ancient Balkan ritual used to revive the earth on the New Year. It’s a wonderful community celebration, and the communities are big. Here is an example of a modern day Pagan survival in good health in Europe. It apparently occurs all over Bulgaria. Here is another clip with animal costumes included. The…
Magick and “doing good’
By
Gus diZerega
Just before Yule one of my readers asked me to explain why I was not more interested in working magick on big issues, such as stopping global warming or bringing about more enlightenment in public policy. He said he planned to do such things up till the Solstice. For that reason I did not immediately…
Open Thread for Winter solstice and Yule
By
Gus diZerega
A reader asked me on Facebook I’ve decided to do Wiccan rituals until Yule to help foster democracy & openness & send the strongest energies I can to help fight the grotesque negativity (e.g., the Wikileaks situation). To save me time in researching, do u have any rituals or links maybe to ones u have…
Preparing for Yule
By
Gus diZerega
I spent much of this afternoon addressing Solstice cards and sending them to Pagan friends far away from here. I never liked the electronic cards – they are nice to get, but I like tangible things. Books instead of photons on a tablet. Cards instead of photons on a screen. E-cards are nice, but you…
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