Helping to plan Yule for my local #pagan group. I am new to this kind of thing. Anybody got a good source for Yule celebrations? Rituals?
@jasod Yule is FILLED with all kinds of rites and rituals you could celebrate with! May I ask what path you study? I may be able to boost you for others that share the same path.
Hi, @jasod
Dunno if you've noticed yet, but there is a small subculture of #CoSoPagans here. Click that tag (the common one we use, as opposed to just #pagans), you should see some posts from some who ascribe to Paganism. And I think @PaganMother got a list recently.
As for rituals, I like to rethinnk them each time, consider the cycle, what meaning it could have for us, what nature teaches me in this time, & where the celebrations may have come from. Then I try writing meaningful words/acts.
@FernLovebond @jasod Yep! #CoSoPagans is basically anyone not in a specific domination of Christianity really. Even got a few Buddhists among us. ^^
Mm, Buddhism comes in a lot of forms, and in the West/Global North it's become deeply secularized. I still use Buddhist practices for my meditation, & live largely by the layperson's vows.
IDK how much I'd include "non-Christian" of w/e kind within Pagan: there's all the Judaic faiths, the Islamic variants, then Hinduism & its offspring (Buddhism, Jainism, Hare Krishna, et al), Zoroastrians, Baha'i, Scientology, & similar nonsense. [Neo]Pagan for me is far more specific.
@FernLovebond @jasod Yeah, but we have had a pretty peaceful coexistence here.