Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Some Day We're Going to Come Out on the Other Side of This
Here at Temple of the Moon, we offer twice daily for the well-being of pagans everywhere.
The prayers (with paired offerings) are threefold:
May the people have life.
May the people have food.
May the people have beauty.
We pray that our people may continue to exist, and that we may have what we need to continue existing: sustenance both physical and spiritual.
Rarely has the seeming simplicity of those prayers seemed deeper than in this time of epidemic.
But here's my point: some day, we're going to come out on the other side of this. What that may look like, we cannot know, but of this we can be certain: it will be a time to give thanks mightily.
It well behooves us to start thinking now about what forms this might take.
What this will look like for my coven, we already know. Every year now for 10 years we've made the annual Offering to Minnehaha Falls that kicks off the Twin Cities Pagan Pride festivities. Whether or not there will be a Pagan Pride at the Falls this year, of course, we cannot be sure.
But Pagan Pride or no Pagan Pride, we'll be making our traditional Threefold Offering to the Falls.
And will we ever be meaning it.
May the people have life.
May the people have food.
May the people have beauty.
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