Hawthorne's Blog – June 2015 Archive (3)

This week we celebrate our nation's Independence from Mother Britain by recognising our very own Goddess, the Lady Columbia!  



Columbia is a historical and poetic name used for the United States of America and is also the name of its female personification.



What would the Goddess Columbia's attributes be? Democracy for one - you know; I don't think the Greeks had a Goddess of Democracy- so this is an original!  Certainly, Liberty and Justice.  The Romans had the Goddess…

Happy Midsummer, everyone here on the northern half! The sun is high in the sky, the air is all warm and friendly. Let's stay up real late, then we can build some fires and roll them down the hills!. It's been done forever, it's still being done now and it will always be done.

We in the Pagan community know the summer solstice by many different names. Probably the most popular is the Wiccan name of Litha. We'll talk about where the word Litha comes from and what the holiday means for…

..................................June continues to be the most popular month for getting married. So, my theme is for this week is  The June Bride.



Political conservatives in this country insist that marriage can only mean the union of one woman to one man, under the witness of their Abrahamic so-called "God".  We Pagans know better than that. But there's still alot of assumptions about marriage that we've inherited from mainstream society and we don't much question.



So,…