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The Nature of Nature and Shakespear’s Bastards

Morningbird Uncategorized on The Nature of Nature and Shakespear’s Bastards

Once upon a time I was reading King Lear, which isn’t my favorite bit of Shakespeare, but it’s right near the top and I got thinking about Edmund, the bastard son of the Duke who says this: “Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Why bastard? wherefor base? When my dimensions […]

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Imposing a Magickal Moral Code (and they Tyranny of Harm None)

Morningbird Community on Imposing a Magickal Moral Code (and they Tyranny of Harm None)

I hear it all the time “Harm none”. It has nothing to do with me, but I hear it all the time. Because Wicca is the best marketed of modern magico-religious paths, its Rede is trotted out whenever a moral dilemma comes up, regardless of whether anyone involved is Wiccan. Never mind that the Rede […]

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Tir Na Nog

Morningbird Library, Poems and Prose on Tir Na Nog

Tir na n-Og, Land of the young Far away across the sea Part the waves, oh Mannanan Show Tir na n-Og to me Was a maid in Tir na n-Og Ever young and fair to see Queen of the young, in Tir na n-Og Far away across the sea You shall not wed, her father […]

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Rite of Awakening

Morningbird Book of Shadows, Devotions, Holy Days, Ritual on Rite of Awakening

The ancients celebrated the end of the barren season, when Persephone returned and Demeter deigned to bless the land with fertility again, and so do we. The barren season to the ancients was the dry summer season, so she travels in opposite directions for us and she’s gone quite a bit longer, too. In the […]

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