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  Ana Massien 4:58 am on December 24, 2019 Permalink
  Tags: Midsummer blessings 2019, Pagan Collective ( 5 ), wordpress witches and pagans, Yuletide blessings 2019   

  Blessed Yule to you all 

  Harken, Shiel! again from the Heatheru shaman 🙂 🗿🔮🌒😉🌘🎄🧨

  Blessed Yule, 12 Nights of Yule to the Nordic wiccans and pagans who celebrate this, and Blessed Yuletide season for the rest of you all in the Northern hemisphere, and blessed summer season and Lithia to all of you in the southern hemisphere or those who celebrate midsummer. ⚜🐧🦉🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♂️🧜🏼‍♂️🧜🏼‍♀️ I hear that Aussie land is hot this year — get used to that! The US baked last summer here as well.

  One of the other things the Pagan collective will do is redefine Sabbats and the Esbats as well, maybe we can add some more pagan holidays and events? Though as time wears on also, some pagans really do their own thing and celebrate only what they wish, and their own way which is different now than a few decades ago. I plan to keep yuletide season, not because of the gifts, and decorations but because the light begins to return, and for those in the cold weather you really do feel a kinship with nature about this time of year. Today, it rained all day. It was a drizzly, cold, gloomy, muck. It was perfect. I thought maybe I should record some video with my phone outside of the drizzle, but I didn’t.

  However, being that Lithia is a Midsummer event (originally) and a major sabbat in the summer, (the longest day) and Midwinter, or Yule, being the longest night, why is Yule considered a lesser event than?

  Most of the pagan holidays (old tradition) such as Ostara and Mabon are seen as lesser because they fall on an equinox. (Spring, Fall) and Yule is often treated this way, even though midsummer or Lithia is not. Hmmm. If they are the flipside to one another, and they are, if its Yule in the Northern, then it is Lithia in the southern. One is longest night and longest day. Therefore Yule in the pagan wheel is also an Equinox. I suppose its because its colder. Lithia would be a day long celebration because it is warm and summery.

  However, Yule and Midsummer (Lithia) actually aren’t longer at all. They have shorter sunsets (sun sets at about 8:54 pm) and you will have an earlier sunrise on Yule by about the same margin, which is why pagans say “The light is returning to the Planet.” It also depends on how big the planet is however.

  Well, Blessings anyway!

  #midsummer-blessings-2019, #pagan-collective, #wordpress-witches-and-pagans, #yuletide-blessings-2019
   
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  Ana Massien 10:59 am on December 23, 2019 Permalink
  Tags: News ( 4 ), Pagan Collective ( 5 ), Pagan News ( 5 )   

  Been Live about two weeks 

  I can already see this project lacks willpower. Everyone basically does their own thing anyway, In regards to websites or a coven or circle and bases it just enough on the old creeds of witchcraft to make it be pagan. Most pagans think if they have a blog and twitter, they are successful enough to be themselves and then some have a tarot reading here and there, a new book, some cloaks and or some furniture.

  So with this in mind, I will create some new works, doctrines and I will put myself and my websites under the new pagan community collective which is to be known as NPCC unless I coin a better term, and soon I will add the new doctrines here.

  YOU can still submit things however. I want the public to know that we will always be here so you can ask questions, get advice and even submit your own works, and even experiences.

  We still seek 34 new council members. YOU can apply at any time. You’ll need to submit these questions with answers however (fb group coming for this too)

  1. Name, age, tradition, how long been in paganism, magick.
  2. You basic belief structures.
  3. Bisexual, straight or Gay? Fairness act allows everyone to network regardless of my beliefs.
  4. State/City/Country or Province, phone number for telegram chat.
  5. Do You promise to be active and participate? Chat and Invite others, and submit works?
  6. Are you clergy, in a coven, circle, solitary etc?

  You will need to check in at least once a week and devote at least an hour of your time every day, and then you will have to meet up for chats every bi weekly or month.

  IF you agree to these clauses, submit your works or application here as a reply or in email.

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  Ana Massien 7:00 am on December 13, 2019 Permalink  

  Hello everyone, We are not apart of this website and blog and their not apart of us, but because of the domain I just wanted to clarify:
  https://pagancollective.org

  When we have our new community, its website may be on wordpress self hosted (which is cheaper than wordpress.com hosting) and our community name will change to something we all decide on and it will not be pagancollective related. Right now we are just ironing out the general details of which we want to take action on. I too, will be writing redes, creeds, code of ethics and charges as well, and we as a general community of all who participate will and can lead into a more desirable future.

   
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  Ana Massien 5:46 am on December 13, 2019 Permalink
  Tags: AnaMassien ( 2 ), NewRedes, PaganCollective ( 2 ), Paganism, PaganismCommunity ( 2 ), PaganNews, Remaking paganism boundaries for a modern era ( 2 )   

  Community Assignments
  1. The first thing I’d like to see from people (other than joining and participation) is their own version of a New Wiccan Rede not just as a poem but as a Guideline for Magick purposes, make it however long you want or short, using your own styles.

  2. I want to see your own versions of the God/dess Charge of. Charge of the God/Goddess however long or short you want. (No Gay versions at this time) The Goddess is female, the God is male. That is sacred law. However you may denote from them being around one another at all, because a God/dess needs time to just be with herself/himself too.

  I want to see these versions by Jan 5th 2020! You can send them in via the Contact page or send them to my email at anamassienahc@gmail.NOSPAM.com (Copy and paste this and take out the nospam part) If you have questions about these assignments send me an email as well.
  #NewRedes #remaking-paganism-boundaries-for-a-modern-era #PaganismCommunity #Paganism #PaganCollective #PaganNews #AnaMassien

   
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  Ana Massien 5:11 am on December 12, 2019 Permalink  

  An Open letter to the Pagan webmaster 

  Greetings Pagan or Wiccan/Neo Pagan, Druid and such more webmasters,

  I hope you are having a wonderful day or evening/night. I wish to invite you to this blog and its website community to see if you would be interested in preserving the past as well as pressing onward with our futures as pagan, I am creating a Branch or collective where we, the pagans and so on will re define our community as a whole. Every networking pagan is welcome to attend this blog and community as long as they participate in goals we will set in place.

  1. We want to re create a Council of Pagans, be we called Interfaith movement or something similar or 34 webmasters at the start that want to further and better our community as a whole, we will then seek even more seats to be filled once we start and collect the 34 seats. These seats will hopefully reach across the community and connect us all in good and diverse faiths. With today’s culture we are bound to spark some good matches and hopefully then everyone can add something to our new movement.
  2. We want to re create the redes, ethics, guidelines by which we all do magick and ritual so that people that don’t know can pull a doc and go of this is what they do, no need to fear that then. This is a new informational age. We are not here to rule anything or anyone, as normal anyone could freely create whatever it is they want to create. We just give people a place to promote it should that be what they want to do. This may even cut down on facebook page/group abuse as facebook sometimes lashes out at community pagan things. (people snoozing others, and so on) Again, everyone is invited to participate, even if you don’t believe in God/dess paganism.
  3. This is not done for popular trend or status. This is because people are falling out of like with the old paganism and wiccan foundations and are making their own things. I agree that they can make their own things. Share your own things too here with us.
  4. Rather than us being a ruling body that oversees paganism and such, we aren’t, we are a Collection of what is present. If you want to be seen or heard this will be your area.
  5. If it’s not something that calls to you then I understand. Feel free to follow the project however on the blog if that is your interest. Please do not bring a negative vibe with you if following to hinder this project, you will just be ignored/blocked.

  Thank you for your time. I hope you will consider joining us and writing up something for our movement in the meantime!

  — Ana Massien

   
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  Ana Massien 3:46 am on December 12, 2019 Permalink  

  My Name is Ana Massien. I am 47 yrs old and 42 on paper (Adoptive parents changed birthdays and years for tax purposes). I am an Aries, and I am a Pagan (open) and Shaman (Native not American) and a Heatheru (something old and personal) and this is a sort of reclaiming tradition as well, but probably never largely practiced which is fine. I am not trying to re create it for people who shouldn’t and couldn’t be apart of something they can not participate in. What makes one Pagan in Origin? Most of the time its because people celebrate or worship many gods. I do not pay homage to any God/dess. In Heatheru, we believe we are the Equivalent of our Gods, we are sacred life, people did not celebrate heatheru life, they were heatheru life, and so many people elsewhere seem to think because I think of myself as a God I am mighty and ego driven, I am neither of these things. I draw breath and life like all other manner of beings and spirits. When we say Gods, we mean spirit beings. We don’t mean whiny assholes who think of themselves in a mighty fashion. What good would that do? To a Pagan of Neo and so on if asked they would say Our bible is the wind and rain. But too the Heatheru, we are the wind and rain that falls. Instead of having a system where we pray to a God, we are the God we pray too, and because people see the Hierarchy of Gods in a way where they step up to a God as a pagan, we are already there. We are simple people, you don’t do something to someone else because they wronged you only, you do it because its integrity.
  I have been pagan/shaman and heatheru for going on nine years now. Heatheru is also in another blog of mine: The Helm of the Skan. You’ll either love me you will hate the very breath of the land I stand on.

  What I am trying to do with Pagan Collective is simple. People probably think that the Doreen Valiente and Gerald Gardner Generation of wicca and neo paganism should never be updated. The American Council of witches was created then disbanded in 75. Why can’t we have something similar today? We have email, cell phones, skype — come on now I know we can all meet and make this work. People have voices and want to be heard. They want to be recognized. Well why can’t they be? I think this is a great idea to give more of us a calling, and connections to make our own things a reality. You do not need anyone’s permission. Let’s do this. I don’t have an issue with the old way out of respect, but that is NOT my pagan community. So if its not something I find favor with, I am sure I am not the only one. Let’s create something new, better, brighter.

  It seems like to me that people with orgs are the only people that can or should be listened too. That is not how half the pagan websites and communities got started is it? Nope.

   
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  Ana Massien 3:28 am on December 12, 2019 Permalink
  Tags: News ( 4 ), Pagan Collective ( 5 ), Pagan News ( 5 ), Remaking paganism boundaries for a modern era ( 2 )   

  What the “Pagan Collective” is about, with respect to the beginning 

  This is a Community subject to change. The Mission behind this project is simple: Give pagan members a common ground in which to discuss and affirm new community guidelines, documents, creeds, beliefs and more for a Post Pagan Generation movement.

  We are no longer the Doreen Valiente and Gerald Gardner, Scott Cunningham community where we are afraid to speak the word Satan, and recognize that we are a pagan community in general as a whole just starting out, we have been out for a very long time.

  We seek to propose that a New Council of Pagans, witches and shamans be made, several people recognized for their efforts to sustain a peaceful way of living life for online and offline life, gathers and festivals in addition to stores/shops and services and resources. New Redes, New Charges, written by Pagans like YOU. (Yes, you). These are modern times. Our Paganism Commune needs to be modern as well.

  What we need from you: To get in touch. I created this on ning (and on wordpress) because it has a membership community, become involved and help develop the new pagan generation community project along with me and anyone else joining.

  Fairness Act: All Pagans, even neo, druid, occult, etc Goddess worshipper, celebrator, or non belief in a God/dess may also comment, join and participate, any community may be represented, etc. We also invite any old community pagans still around in to this project as well. Let’s find our common ground. Be fair also – no stealing ideas to make another community from this one. That is bad form.

  • This is not being done so I can be popular/cool/fit in or to gain “traction”.
  • Many people are afraid to offend someone for doing something their own way. Why? The beginning lists poems and guidelines to follow, every webmaster in their own way remakes these rules whenever they create a community, group or circle. This is the same principle.
  • The founders of modern wicca and such would like for us to continue on with their dreams I am sure of it. Why can we not?
  • We are not here to write rules and tell you what to do, we are here to build up our communities rather than split them apart. We have a “body” where we have articles written on what we do, what we don’t do, what we celebrate and how and how we have a ritual or meetup or a gathering and how we do not.
  • We will represent you, and you will represent a more modern community and essays and more can still be written for the modern pagan long after new “Redes” / Charges and more can be chosen.
  • We will always represent and respect the past with a section for foundations on paganism and wicca in the online and offline community.
  • This will help community recognize Elderhood in those who are here and still present and may even garner new respects in those areas.
  • Anyone can be on the Council which is not so much a ruling senate but more of a Presentation to the community as a whole. All you need to to get in touch, join our ning currently as well as follow this blog, submit items and participate in our community, and invite others who you feel may be interested. http://pagancollective.ning.com
  • Please do not join for a negative purpose.

  If you don’t like this idea you are free to pass us on by.

  #news, #pagan-collective, #pagan-news, #remaking-paganism-boundaries-for-a-modern-era