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.

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Sometimes We Don't Know the Answer Until Someone Asks the Question

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“So, why sixteen circles around the Wheel?”

I'm wearing my new Sun-wheel petroglyph hoodie. (In this dark time, I tend to surround myself with icons of the Sun.) Boldly displayed on my chest is the Sun-wheel itself, one of the ancestors' most sacred symbols: in each quarter thereof, a mini-Sun; around it, sixteen more.

Leave it to P, a detail-oriented guy if ever there was one, to ask about specifics.

Any teacher knows the scenario. I didn't realize that I knew the answer to his question until he'd asked it. I'm happy to tell him, but of course I owe him some attitude first.

Really P, I'm disappointed in you," I say in my most withering headmaster voice. "Isn't it obvious why sixteen?”

He gives me the look that I deserve.

“Four: it's the sacred number of the Sun. It's like nine: three threes. Sixteen is four fours: double the power.”

Such bantering play, of course, everywhere characterizes the conversation of the loreful.

In a time of darkness, we strengthen ourselves with images of light.

Sometimes we don't know the answer until someone asks the question.

 

 

 

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.

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