Executive Pagan

I know that there’s a reason why I need to be alone/To show me there’s a silent place that I can call my own. - Supertramp

You have to be one with your whosit and do it for the joy of making it way cool. - Christopher Bingham

I’m having trouble finding time to write this week…
Order and chaos are lovers, not competitors - the whirl of chaos is the matrix from which Order arises, and into which any given form must return. No form is eternal, nothing endures forever, except the Great Dance itself. - Ian Corrigan

The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address [...]

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más;

I am a lover of the steady Earth
and her waters.
She say let the light be brilliant
to one who will cherish colour.
- Robin Williamson, “Verses at Powis”
(A longer post is coming this evening, but I wanted to share this while I was thinking about it.)

Ancestors, I ask you for your guidance. Blessed Mother, come to me with the Gods’ desire for my future. Blessed Father, watch over my wife and my son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again. Ancestors, I honour you and will try to live with [...]

Kudos to Sannion for this post. Go and read.
And, as a bonus, entry #5(a) in my commonplace book (the (a) is because I tagged the Seneca quote as commonplace_book also, but didn’t announce it as such).
“My tormented psyche, my rules!” - Wonderella

Thanks to Sannion for reminding me of this quote from Seneca… I think it really captures the spirit of Shinto.

…just because it’s sacred, doesn’t mean we humans have any business inviting it in and letting it make our decisions for us without applying a moral test to our acts. Just because it’s a god doesn’t mean it’s right, or just, or kind… we are responsible for the gods we choose to worship. [emphasis mine] [...]