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[skyofpadilha]

MARIA PADILLA / PADILHA

MARIA PADILLA / PADILHA

MARIA PADILLA / PADILHA

POMBAGIRA

QUEEN

MAYORAL

ELEMENTAL / FAE

QUEEN OF THE PAGAN QUIMBANDA

The MARIA PADILHA / PADILLA stories and other literary attempts to find Value / Validation / Relevance in this Species’ past and its many History versions, all written / invented / modified-to-order by 1% of the population and for the other 99% of the population who will have to, either take it as reality / as fact, or to question it, and to find a more suitable Version of the many contexts, the many scripts and hoping hard for the ( real ) Content a.k.a. the facts.

All having been said and written before this, I myself see Maria Padilla / Padilha bare-naked and free from the many fanciful clothes a.k.a. many mythologies added / appended to her.

Cave-men did not need any (invented-by-this-Species) MYTHOLOGY a.k.a. RELIGION in order to worship a Supreme Being Creatress Goddess a.k.a. our present Patriarchal / male-oriented Version of a pathetic, vengeful, anti-Women / misogynous, anti-LGBTQ, confined-to-binary interpretation, spiritual-dualistic/Zoroastrian and monistic (a simply nasty so-called) tiny village god turned into a Big God.

I do not believe that the actual Maria Padilla / Padilha and Her Essence, Her Light, Her Darkness, Her Soul would ever bow down to any mythology, any religion of our times, nor to any of their Mythological Characters, and their Different Versions of The Invisible Man in the sky.

Maria Padilla / Padilha is larger than life, folks!

Maria Padilla / Padilha is larger than this evolutionary denser Time / Timeband and this tiny Version of the Elemental Earth / of this Place.

People try and will try hard to make their Versions of anything, to be more relevant, and always to seem as the final word, but folks, it never is.

We all are made of Changes and all of our adventures from cradle to grave are made of Changes as well.

Evolution is made of Changes.

The only radical constant is Change.

So I leave it to each human being, to each person to find the version of Maria Padilla / Padilha which best suits their personal Evolution and what they need and can handle to know in order to grow, and to evolve beyond the wilful ignorant and/or, wilful intellectually dishonest inventions of the 1% of the population who controls all and everything for the other 99% of the rest of the folks on earth.

THINKING is real gold.

Individuation is mighty desirable.

Empowered Freedom with Wisdom is the Law.

Cheers to All Fae / Elementals / Pombagiras / Exus –

Laroye!

Sky a.k.a. Padilla of Ashtoreth a.k.a. JD Aeon

TRACES OF MARIA PADILLA / PADILHA

Maria Padilla / Padilha and Her freely visible ( Traces / Vestiges / Remnants ) Tangibles & Echo left on this Earth / Planet / Time-band, they have solely arisen / come from the Inspiration of those people who loved Her enough to express Her in their Art / Works, whether they would be, painting / drawings and/or Statues, or yet, via electronically ( Software / online ) Art-oriented created Images.

Location for these Works / Artworks may vary as most of their owners have chosen to prefer the peace & protection of Anonymity.

A Note:

MARIA PADILLA / PADILLHA & Her human remains, they were posthumously transferred…

She was actually buried in A ( Abrahamic / Christian ) Monastery of the Lady Saint Clara of Astudillo…

Later being itself “Attributed” to Her in 1353.

Shortly after Her staying / passage in that Cemetery, Her human / elemental remains were again taken, following special orders of King Peter, placed at the ( Abrahamic Mythology/Religion oriented / Christian ) Cathedral of Seville, where it has been said to remain to this day!

Mind you, different Religious Mythologies, they try, and they attempt hard to to describe, to paint, to confine Maria Padilla / Padilha as some Subordinate / Subservient / Inferior Lady / Woman in regard to their fanciful Mythological Patriarchal / Male oriented, Anti-Women Characters & Their Mythologies!

As if She was an obedient bourgeois, loyal conformist and blind follower of their religion / mythology, and their mythological characters.

However, in fact, I can assure you 100%, Maria Padilla / Padilha was never a slave of / to, nor under any Abrahamic ( Christian / Jewish / Islamic ) Mythologies and their religions, nor under any other Religions’ Mythological Nonsense and Rubbish!

I bar, abhor and despise the way that some Belief Systems and chiefly mainstream rich, fat, non-tax-paying, big Religions shamefully attempt to cover up Pagan Mythological Values and Ways, and also their very nasty process to discredit and to subordinate Anybody / Anything under their ( invented / men-made ) Mythologies and their special collection of Mythological poop!

I am quite pleased to report and to set the records right and very much after a 100% Pagan Way!

Cheers,

Sky a.k.a. Padilla of Ashtoreth a.k.a. JD Aeon

MANY MARIA PADILLAS / PADILHAS

In re of Maria Padilla / Padilha — Taking firmly into consideration all of what it is available by different writers who rode the Maria Padilla / Padilha bandwagon of many books, etc.

Since the very first MARIA PADILLA / Padilha, there have been many, many, many Marias and amongst them all, many, many other Padillas / Padilhas.

My experience and my understanding is the fact that there are Many Lifetimes, and also, Many Groups, Many Phalanges of Maria Padilla / Padilha.

Different Souls, different Stories, different Experiences but all of them from the Same LINE, from the Same FIRE, from the Same ELEMENTAL Family which all had begun with the Soul / Spirit of the very first Maria Padilla / Padilha.

One could easily say the very same of the spirit of any dear EXU and their many, Many Manifestations / Different Spirits of the same Fire, of the same House, who volunteer to help EVOLUTION via that one EXU... Therefore there can be many their Different stories and in fact, there are, etc.

MANY PADILLAS / PADILHAS BUT ONE ROYAL HOUSE OF PADILLA

It does not change the fact that it is still Padilla / Padilha, therefore it is the Sacred Family and Royal ( Elemental ) House of very first MARIA PADILLA / Padilha.

It would be a waste of time for anybody to attempt to discredit this writer or that writer, or that story, or this story and simply because it is not the same and it defers.

It is, it was and it will always be ONE MARIA PADILLA / PADILHA FAMILY & ROYAL HOUSE, but it will always be many, many, many different PADILLAS / PADILHAS volunteering to do the work of EVOLUTION in different Elemental Realms & Time-bands such as this one, folks!

If you did understand my comments, blessed be you by all Padilhas / Padillas!

If you did not understand and/or disagree! Just be patient, be dignified because EVOLUTION comes to everyone and to everything and change is what we all are made of.

No right, no wrong at all, it is just whatever people can handle to know and to become aware of.

To each, their own!

Cheers to all Padillas / Padilhas!

Laroye!

Cheers,

Sky a.k.a. Padilla of Ashtoreth a.k.a. JD Aeon

“ONCE A PADILLA, ALWAYS A PADILLA!”

SKY a.k.a. Padilla of Ashtoreth a.k.a. JD Aeon 2024 USA

https://UK.youtube.com/c/JDAeon

[actiwitch]

Queer Heathenry Masterpost

(updated google doc here)

General awareness:

Neo-Nazi Prevention & Dog Whistles White supremacists are misappropriating Norse mythology Dog Whistles in the Gender Critical Movement Guide to Anti-LGBTQ Online Hate and Disinformation What To Do When Racists Try To Hijack Your Religion Inside Asatruism's Fight Against the Co-Opting of Their Religion by White Supremacists

Sources and Sites:

GLBT in the Northern Tradition (site) Vikings are Gay! Podcast (podcast) Academic Research

Excerpts and Essays:

Sex, Status, and Seiðr: Homosexuality and Germanic Religion Sons of Frey Ergi: The Way of the Third Being Ergi The Tale of a Transsexual Norse Pagan Spirit-Worker

Scholarly Articles:

Queer Themes In Old Norse Myth Feminism in Medieval Scandinavia: How Paganism Forged Gender Equality Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750-1050 Mythical beasts: How queer bodies expand the religious imaginary

Practices:

Rite of Passage for an Ergi Child Honoring Ancestors: Queer Rite of Elevation

Queer-friendly Creators:

Ocean Keltoi (YouTube) Nordic Mythology Podcast (Spotify) The Norse Gods: Loki: An Evil Queer Icon? (YouTube) Storied (YouTube) The Welsh Viking (YouTube) Hearthkvlt (online shop; artist) Lockwood Metaphysical (online shop; artist) Ludvig Levin (online shop; artist)

Queer/queer interpreted passages:

Grettisfærsla  The Birth of Sleipnir  Þrymskviða  Lokasenna

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … October 31

Hall🎃ween !

This "in between time" has long been one which gay people have taken on as their own holiday, reveling in masks and costumes. There are reasons Halloween is so closely associated with gay people, some of which author, Arthur Evans explained in his book, Witchcraft and The Gay Counterculture.Here is a brief excerpt:

One Celtic male deity … is the horned god, "one of the most basic of the Celtic god types," whose worship goes back to the Stone Age. He is often associated with the Mothers, as well as with sex, animals, and nature. He also seems to have links with male shamans. His great antiquity is shown by a Stone Age painting in Ariege, France, which shows a man dancing in the hide of an animal and wearing the antlers of a stag. And in the eighteenth century, construction workers inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris uncovered a four-sided Celtic stone altar dating from Roman times and bearing the figure of a bearded male deity with antlers. The stone was inscribed with the word Cernunnos, which means "The Horned One." The horned god was especially linked with male sexuality and often appears with an erect cock. Moreover, when erect, he is sometimes portrayed in the company of men, not women. A drawing of the horned god from Val Camonica, Italy, shows him holding a ceremonial collar ring in one hand and a horned serpent in the other. He is being worshipped by a man, and the man has an erection. This picture is reminiscent of early art scattered throughout Europe. The men often have erections and appear together in groups without women. In view of the Celts' notoriety for homosexuality, these facts suggest a Gay element in the worship of the horned god. The horned god was also lord of the dead and the underworld. To the Celts, who believed in reincarnation, darkness and death were parts of the cycle of life and rebirth, and death was the very place where the creative forces of nature brought about new life. Because of this connection with the underworld the horned god was often shown as black in color. But this blackness was not considered evil, as Christianity later viewed it.... The Celts dated the feast days of their religion according to the changing of the seasons, the breeding habits of animals, and the sowing and harvesting of crops. As it happens, these dates correspond exactly with the holidays later attributed by medieval Christians to witches. The Christians called these days, respectively, Halloween, Candlemas, Walpurgisnacht, and Lammas. Ritual transvestism associated with the old holidays continue[s] in Europe down to modern times. "May Day sports perpetuated the practices, including even transvestism. in Wales, there existed, into the nineteenth century, a peasant dance and march with a garland, led by a dancer [a horned god figure] called the "Cadi." In the Hogmanay celebration in Scotland, "the boys wore skirts and bonnets, the girls, hats and greatcoats." The feast of Fools, a remnant of the old pagan religion, has persisted into modern times with clerics "wearing masks and monstrous visages at the hours of the office. They dance in the choir dressed as women, or disreputable men, or minstrels. They sing wanton songs." Today many Gay people throughout Europe and America observe Halloween as a Gay holiday with transvestite celebrations.

1940 – Craig L. Rodwell (d.1993) was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967, the first U.S. bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors, and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City pride demonstration. Rodwell is considered by some to be the leading gay rights activist in the early homophile movement of the 1960s.

Rodwell was born in Chicago, IL. His parents divorced prior to his first birthday and for the next few years he was boarded out for day care where he was required to do kitchen labor and laundry to supplement his board and care. When he was 6 years old, Rodwell's mother, Marion Kastman, fearing that the child care set up could cause her to lose custody of her son, arranged for his admission to the Christian Scientist affiliated Chicago Junior School for "problem" boys, in Elgin, IL. Conditions and treatment at the school were described as "Dickensian" and Rodwell got a reputation for being a rebellious child, as well as a "sissy," during his seven years there. It was at Chicago Junior School that Rodwell first experienced same-sex relationships and also came to internalize the Christian Scientist notion that "truth is power and that truth is the greatest good."

At Sullivan High School in Chicago, IL. Rodwell continued his studies in Christian Science by enrolling in Sunday school at the 16th Church of Christ, Scientist. He later studied ballet in Boston before finally moving to New York City in 1958. It was in New York that he first volunteered for a gay rights organization, The Mattachine Society of New York.

In 1962, Rodwell had an affair with Harvey Milk, who went on later to become one of the first openly gay politicians elected to high office. It was Rodwell's first serious relationship. Rodwell's relationship with Milk ended in part due to Milk's conflicted reaction to Rodwell's early activism and his introduction to Milk of "strange new ideas that tied homosexuality to politics, ideas that both repelled and attracted the thirty-two-year-old Milk." Milk believed that Rodwell had been responsible for Milk contracting an STD. After Rodwell's arrest and incarceration when picked up cruising in Washington Square Park, Milk ended their romantic involvement. Shortly after, Rodwell attempted suicide.

When Rodwell opened the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in 1967, Milk dropped by frequently, and after moving to San Francisco Milk expressed his intention to Rodwell of opening a similar store "as a way of getting involved in community work." Milk eventually opened a camera store that also functioned as a community center, much like Rodwell's bookshop had as a community gathering place.

In November 1969, Rodwell proposed the first gay pride parade to be held in New York City along with his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes. The first march was organized from Rodwell's apartment on Bleecker Street.

We propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and this demonstration be called CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATION DAY. No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration. We also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. We propose a nationwide show of support.

Rodwell is believed to have created the term heterosexism in January 1971 when he wrote:

"After a few years of this kind of 'liberated' existence such people become oblivious and completely unseeing of straight predjudice and - to coin a phrase - the 'hetero-sexism' surrounding them virtually 24 hours a day.

In 1978 Rodwell was one of the creators and organizers of Gay People in Christian Science. One reason for the creation of the group was that three of its members had been recently excommunicated from the local branch church. In 1980 the group began to demonstrate by leafletting at the church's Annual Meeting in Boston and by 1999, six years after Rodwell's death, the Christian Scientist church no longer barred openly gay or lesbian people from membership.

Rodwell died on June 18, 1993 of stomach cancer.

1942 – David Ogden Stiers is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney films, the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies.

Ogden Stiers joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" in 1977 as the arrogant but charming aristocrat Charles Emerson Winchester III. In addition to starring in the sitcom, he voiced the characters of a number of Disney movies, including Cogsworth in "Beauty and the Beast" and the Archdeacon in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

Stiers is also the associate conductor for the Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival. He has guest conducted over 70 orchestras around the world, including the Oregon Mozart Players, the Vancouver Symphony, the Oregon Chamber Players, the Yaquina (Ore.) Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto.

In 2009, Stiers announced to the world that he is gay and "very proud to be so." The actor said he kept his homosexuality under wraps for years because he feared coming out would hurt his career. Butas he has not experienced any anti-gay discrimination in the movie industry recently, Ogden Stiers is reconsidering what exactly made him stay in the closet for so long.

1955 – The "Boys of Boise" affair begins. Starting with the arrest of four men for sexual relations with male teenagers who are prostitutes, it is blown into a situation in which Boise is called a mecca where Gay men can find boys. Begun by a group of right-wing politicians to shake the moderate political establishment, the issue is inflamed by the Idaho Daily Statesman and Time magazine. As a result of the hysteria, a city councilman is defeated for reelection and a West Point cadet from Idaho is dismissed. A 1965 investigation reveals the incident to be based on outright lies.

1956 – Bruce Bawer, born in New York City, is an American writer who has been a resident of Norway since 1999. He is a literary, film, and cultural critic and poet who has also written about gay rights, Christianity, and Islam.

Bawer's writings on literature, gay issues, and Islam have all been highly controversial. While championing such authors such as William Keepers Maxwell, Flannery O'Connor, and Guy Davenport, he has criticized such authors as Norman Mailer and E.L. Doctorow. A member of the New Formalists, a group of poets who promoted the use of traditional forms, he has assailed such poets as Allen Ginsberg for what he views as their lack of polish and technique.

Bawer was one of the first gay activists to seriously propose same-sex marriage, notably in his 1993 book A Place at the Table, and his 2006 book While Europe Slept was one of the first to skeptically examine the rise of Islam in the Western world.

On an episode of the Charlie Rose Show marking the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Bawer took part in a discussion with fellow gay moderate Andrew Sullivan and gay-left writers Tony Kushner and Donna Minkowitz. Minkowitz underlined the conflict between the two sides of the gay-rights movement by saying: "We don't want a place at the table! We want to turn the table over!

A Washington Post article about the 25th anniversary of Stonewall quoted Bawer on gay pride marches: "It's hard to make straight people understand how serious an issue gay rights is when they look and see a kind of Mardi Gras atmosphere … It doesn't communicate the idea that these are serious issues."

From 1994 to 1999, he was a regular columnist for The Advocate, the gay newsmagazine. His Advocate columns and other articles by Bawer on gay issues were later collected in an e-book, The Marrying Kind.

1968 – Silent film star Ramon Novarro was found murdered. A bathroom mirror had the words "US GIRLS ARE BETTER THAN FAGGITS" smeared in blood. Hustler Paul Ferguson and his brother Tom Ferguson were convicted of the murder and both received life sentences. During the trial, Novarro's sexual orientation was called into question with more vigor than the guilt or innocence of the defendants.

1969 – On this date Time magazine ran a cover story on "The Homosexual in America" that included a report on the Stonewall Riots. It was protested by the Gay Liberation Front because the writer said homosexuals are mentally ill and immoral.

1969 – On this night sixty members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Society for Individual Rights (SIR) staged a protest at San Francisco's Examiner in response to another in a series of news articles disparaging LGBT people in San Francisco's Gay bars and clubs. The peaceful protest against the "homophobic editorial policies" of the Examiner turned tumultuous and were later called "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand".

Examiner employees "dumped a bag of printers' ink from the third story window of the newspaper building onto the crowd." Some reports were that it was a barrel of ink poured from the roof of the building. The protestors "used the ink to scrawl "Gay Power" and other slogans on the building walls" and stamp purple hand prints "throughout downtown San Francisco" resulting in "one of the most visible demonstrations of Gay power".

According to Larry Little John, then president of SIR, "At that point, the tactical squad arrived — not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators who were the victims. The police could have surrounded the Examiner building...but, no, they went after the Gays...Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police came racing in with their clubs swinging, knocking people to the ground. It was unbelievable." The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out.

1983 – Adam Bouska, born in Decatur, Illinois, is an award winning American fashion photographer who runs a photography studio based out of West Hollywood, California. He is known for pictures of male models in particular, and is considered a rising 'superstar photographer' in the gay community. His work has been printed in DNA Magazine and reFRESH and has already been featured on a variety of shows and mediums including The New York Times, Life & Style magazine, Guinness Book of World Records 2010, Chelsea Lately, TODAY show, The View, Million Dollar Listing, Millionaire Matchmaker, and CNBC. He is also noted for his work with celebrities such as Barry Manilow.

Bouska is openly gay. He lives in West Hollywood, California and was recognized as the community's leading photographer at the West Hollywood awards in January 2007.

In November 2008, in response to the narrow approval in California of Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, founded the NOH8 Campaign to promote the overturn of this ban. While beginning at a grassroots level, by April 2009 the campaign had seen support from many celebrities and became involved in the Miss USA 2009 controversy. The campaign has now gained the support of many notables.

NOH8 is a photographic silent protest launched on February 1, 2009 in direct response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Photos feature subjects against a white background with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with NOH8 painted on one cheek in protest.

Three years since its inception, the NOH8 Campaign (pronounced No Hate) has grown to over 20,000 faces and continues to grow at an exponential rate. The campaign began with portraits of everyday Californians from all walks of life and soon rose to include politicians, military personnel, newlyweds, law enforcement, artists, celebrities, and many more. Perhaps two of the most famous NOH8 models have been Cindy McCain, wife of U.S. Senator John McCain (Arizona), and daughter Meghan McCain.

1986 – Sean Paul Lockhart, born in Lewiston, Idaho, is an American model, film actor and gay pornographic actor. For the latter, he uses his stage name Brent Corrigan and has played roles in gay porn films notably with Cobra Video and Pink Bird Media, but has also made some films with Active Duty and Jet Set Men. As for his appearances with Falcon Studios particularly in The Velvet Mafia series, he has used the stage name Fox Rider instead.

As Brent Corrigan/Fox Rider

He has also appeared in several nonpornographic films as well, using his birth name Sean Paul Lockhart trying to reposition himself as a more serious mainstream actor rather than just a porn star and has released no new pornographic films since 2010 . He has focused almost exclusively on gay-themed movies and indie films. Such gay-themed and indie films include Judas Kiss, Sister Mary, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, Welcome to New York, and others.

In 2011 he starred as "Ricky" in the musical Chillerama directed by Tim Sullivan in the segment "I Was A Teenage Werebear".

In 2011 Sean Paul Lockhart won the Rising Star Award at the Philadelphia QFest Festival. In 2012, he announced his involvement in production of an indie film titled Truth to be directed by Rob Moretti. He has also recorded an album with songs by the Swedish singer-songwriter and accordionist Roland Cedermark. Lockhart heads up his own production company and enjoys writing in his spare time.

Both Lockhart and Cobra Video the gay porn company that launched him as a young porn star have created separate "official Brent Corrigan websites" promoting the performer's gay porn films creating some confusion and controversy.

Lockhart's admission of playing pornographic roles while underage created great controversy resulting in voluntary withdrawal of many of his early films from circulation.

He also appeared as a witness in the murder trial of Bryan Kocis, owner of Cobra Video for whom Lockhart worked. Prosecutors alleged the two accused suspects murdered Kocis because they wanted to get Lockhart to work for them at their porn film company. However, police investigating the murder believe Lockhart didn't know about the plot and that he fully cooperated with the police and testified for the prosecution.

1992 – On this date the coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights held a march in London. The event was a follow-up to EuroPride 1992.

One marcher recalls: I was particularly gratified on my journey down to watch some Metropolitan Police officers turning a blind eye to a group of gay men "kicking shit" out of a group of youths who had chanted "Batty Boys" at them in Brixton.

[gaybabeywitch]

Looking for witchy blogs to follow!

New to the witch scene on tumblr. SUPER uneducated and looking for informative blogs, especially those that are trans-positive! Please like/reblog this post so I can find blogs to follow. <3 

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[apaganadrift]

Impromptu Book Review

So, I just got done reading Margot Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America. It’s a book that’s been on my list forever, but just hadn’t gotten around to reading it until now. It is an absolute treasure of anthropological, sociological, and historical work.

Originally published in 1979, then re-editioned in 1986, 1996, and 2006, Drawing Down the Moon is a personal and social account of the history and life of Neopagan and Wiccan communities in the United States. Through extensive scholarly work, Adler puts together a very detailed history of the growth and shifts in Neopagan and Wiccan/Witchcraft practices in the US, as well as Britain. With extensive fieldwork and individual interviews, Adler really brings out the oral history and lived experiences of Wiccans and Pagans from the early years of the movements in the US. The 1986 and 2006 editions are updated with new information, reflections, and interviews. The book is broken into 13 chapters with an epilogue.

The first three chapters (Part I) are focused on a general overview of “paganism.” This includes what the term means, how it’s been used overtime, how people come to the religion, how the communities exist, and general worldviews of the greater Neopagan community. Chapters 4-8 (Part II) are focused specifically on Wicca/Witchcraft. It includes an examination of the history of modern Wicca, a look at Wicca and Witches in the modern age, a chapter solely focused on an interview, a discussion of the concepts of magic and ritual, and an analysis of the relationship between Wicca and feminism. Chapters 9-12 (Part III) are focused on other Neopagan groups. Adler covers a wide gamut of other Neopagan groups from Greek to Nordic to Egyptian and many other groups. There is also a chapter on men’s spirituality in Neopaganism. The final chapter (Part IV) is a rather long chapter that really examines the current trends of growth and concern in the greater Neopagan community. It includes issues like changes in Neopagan festivals, the internet, and the future sustainability of Neopagan communities.

Ever since its first printing, Drawing Down the Moon has been the go-to book for the history of Wicca and Neopaganism in America and for good reason. Part of what makes the book so great is that it’s not just an academic text full of citations and the names of long dead people. So much of the book is built off of interviews with many in the community and Adler’s own personal experiences. It makes the book feel like it has a certain life to it. It’s not just the history of Wicca and Neopaganism in America, it’s the chronicle of the community and the culture. Adler also very expertly weaves in many issues involved with the Wiccan and Neopagan community. She discusses feminism, politics, race, class, LGBTQ+ issues (she uses the older form GLBT), religion and modernity, how people handle their religion and faith in their everyday lives, etc. What we learn is that many people in the Wiccan and Neopagan community have many different opinions when it comes to these kinds of things.

Reading through it really made me reflect on a lot of these issues, largely because they’re things that I’ve thought about many times before. Adler does a great job of introducing the issue, giving some explanations about it, bringing in the perspectives of people she’s done interviews with, and posing questions for further thought. It is a fantastic book, but there were certain things that she brought up that I really wanted more of. For example, the chapter about men’s spirituality is specifically focused on the “Radical Faeries” and the spiritual groups of gay men. It’s a very interesting and crucial piece of Neopagan history and culture, for sure, but I’d really like to see more examination of hetero men’s spirituality, particularly in the contemporary context of rethinking masculinity and trying to work through issues of toxic masculinity in America. I’d also like to see a bit more about the revival of non-European, traditional religious practices. One of the issues she discusses at the end of the book is the role of the internet in regards to the growth of the community and growth of practices. There’s definitely a ton more to say about that. These, I feel, are things that left me wanting more from her book, but I think that’s mostly because of the time period when she wrote it. Doing a new edition in 2021, 15 years after the last one, would no doubt bring in a lot more information as those topics I’ve previously mentioned have grown a lot since 2006.

Overall, it’s a fantastic, fantastic book. In many ways, it is the history of Wicca and Neopaganism in the US, not just a history book about Wicca and Neopaganism in the US. It should be required reading for anyone and everyone in the Wiccan and Neopagan community.

[bi-women-confess]

Wendy Curry: Former BiNet USA President & recipient of the Brenda Howard Memorial Award presented by the Queens Chapter of PFLAG

“If you really study diversity acceptance you’ll see that people start to respect people once they respect themselves. As long as we were in this endless begging for inclusion, we weren’t addressing the respect issue. So, those two themes – wanting to respect ourselves and wanting to celebrate the previous years’ battles – were the dual driving forces behind Celebrate Bisexuality Day. The day was not an education day. It was not a coming-out day, it’s not about GLBT partnerships building or proving ourselves to anyone else. It’s not a ‘Pride’ day, though many of us are proud. It’s not about usurping a gay event and making a smaller one for ourselves. It’s a truly unique day, just for us.”

“We were sitting around at one of the annual bi conventions, venting and someone – I think it was Gigi – said we should have a party. We all loved the great bisexual, Freddie Mercury. His birthday was in September, so why not Sept? We wanted a weekend day to ensure the most people would do something. Gigi's birthday was Sept 23rd. It fell on a weekend day, so, poof! We had a day."

Gigi Raven Wilbur: Former member of the BiNet USA Board of Directors & recipient of the American Institute of Bisexuality Globe Award

“Celebrate Bisexuality Day has three parts to it. Autumn equinox is on September 21st. The autumn equinox is important in the pagan community, because this is when we gather our crops. The pagan community believes that the autumn equinox is a “calling out day.” Having Celebrate Bisexuality Day during the autumn equinox would be like “calling out” to all bisexuals.” So, I thought what day wouldn’t be better than calling out day?” September 23rd is also my birthday.”

Michael Page: Creator of the Bisexual Pride flag

“The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), The blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi). The key to understanding the symbolism of the bi pride flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world,' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities."

In 1998, Page stated the bisexual pride flag was "for free public and commercial use" and that it was "not patented, trademarked or service marked."

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You Find Community in the Strangest Places

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Lord of Ravens (Inheritance 3) by Amelia Faulkner #LGBT #Review #Fantasy #Paranormal #MM

Lord of Ravens (Inheritance 3) by Amelia Faulkner #LGBT #Review #Fantasy #Paranormal #Magic #MM @_AmeliaFaulkner

Marc reviews ‘Lord of Ravens’ (Inheritance Book #3) by Amelia Faulkner. This book was release by LoveLight Press on January 4th, 2017 and is ~406 pgs long.

RGR recieved a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Why I read this book: Well, after book two of this series I had no choice. None at all. I went to the author, begging for review copies of the rest of the series, because…

[skyofpadilha]

QUIMBANDA + GOETIA + WHATEVER OTHER SYSTEM OF SYMBOLS & SIGILS

QUIMBANDA + GOETIA + WHATEVER OTHER SYSTEM OF SYMBOLS & SIGILS - Revised

Revised 23rd Oct 2020

You see many people ask about the GOETIA and the QUIMBANDA + GOETIA.

IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND AND TO SEE, YOU MUST FIRST…

Clean off the table and put away in the rubbish bin All the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam oriented) Patriarchal (Men/Father/God-oriented), Spiritual Dualism oriented (Invention of the Personification of Good & Bad…

Once you junk in the rubbish bin all of that men-made/invented pure bullshit of the Battle of Personified Evil versus Good, the absurd Invention of Sin / of Guilt / Guilty Trainers and the pitiful Invention of the dumb-ass / stupid Abrahamic Hell & their Meaningless Heaven…

After you get rid of all the harmful Invention of the Fear-Driven and Imposed Limitation / Censorship / Abuse, Murder & Torture against, to/on/of Women, to/on/of GLBTQ+, to/on/of Freedom of Expression & to/on/of Freedom of Thinking…

After you clean up all of the wilful Ignorance, extreme Arrogance, extreme Infliction of loss, pain, harm in the population…

After you end all of the wilful Intellectual Dishonesty which it is required to maintain such an absurd, dumb-ass monistic, primitive, obsolete, biased, prejudiced, Anti-Life, Anti-Happiness, Anti-Humanity, Anti-Academia, Anti-Pleasure, Anti-Autonomy, Anti-Sciences, Anti-Arts, Anti-Sex, Anti-Women, Anti-Goddess, Anti-GLBTQ+, Anti-Freedom, harmful (Invented-Men-Made) SYSTEMS of “Belief and Language”, and their associated (men-made/invented) Values and Ways of Conduct…

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By the way, all of this rubbish-bullshit, no exceptions at all, all of it was merely made-up/invented by this Species and by this Species alone!

And of course, under the exaggerated claim that They were, that They are, the Word of God, or the Words inspired by God, or the Word of some Supreme Being.

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The Mythologies of the big and rich mainstream Religions, the so-called Holy Word was and still is the Words of the 1% of world Minority Elite portion of the world population who had invented all this pure nonsense, bullshit and rubbish, all in order to loot, to abuse, to control the other 99% portion of the world population, the majority of (turned-into/conditioned-to-be) obedient and fooled-to-the-bone Followers, passive Conformists, “no-good-for-nothing” people who finally in the end to get junked like useless garbage after having been used and abused by an all-rigged-by-the-rich System, and for most part of their lives.

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After you open your eyes and clean off all of this rubbish off and out of your life…

Then I say, only then, you can really and truly understand and see the Goetia.

The Goetia is nothing more than a Group/Unit/Family, amongst many, many others, of similar Energies / Intelligences / Species / Beings, all belonging to a specific Realm / Kingdom, Level-Vibration-Dimension of LIFE, of Existence.

Now, what did it happen to the GOETIA?

Well, that it is easy to tell.

Sometime in the past, a few past un-evolved/un-enlightened members of this Species, they had discovered, encountered the dear GOETIA.

And what did they all do?

Well, they did fully colour it and they tried hard to have it narrowed down to their culture, their belief and language, associated values and ways of conduct of their time.

In short, they all defined the GOETIA with their very own willful ignorant, and/or intellectual-dishonest Interpretations, accommodated by their personal best interests, their greedy/selfish/primitive modus of operandi of “How can WE/they USE & ABUSE this GOETIA in order to CONTROL OTHERS, in order to gain POWER Over Others, etc, etc.

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THE MAKING OF THE GOETIA

We have a long list of People here, folks…

From the Dutch Johann Weyer who had picked it from the Italian Peter of Abano, from the German Johann Baptist Grossschedel von Aicha along with Danish Tycho Brahe & Flemish/German Theodor de Bry, and from the German Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, who had himself picked it from the German Johannes Trithemius.

In the 1500’s we also find the English Reginald Scot who went out of his way to point out to the nonsense of his time, chiefly regarding Witchcraft… But even the Goetia of his time, it did not escape his eyes, as it earned his criticisms, chiefly when the Order of the Intelligences / Entities, had been modified, then also new Intelligences / Entities were added, and of all things on earth, lo and behold “one” had been excluded.

We also have the English Thomas Rudd who picked it from the French Blaise de Vigenere.

Finally, we have the British Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers who translated it when he picked it from Blaise de Vigenere and from nearly everybody else that he could research, find and read the works.

Later, we have the English Aleister Crowley, who picked it from Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and actually published it in 1904 under “The Book Of The Goetia Of Solomon The King”.

But “not before” he had fully edited here & there, and firmly appended/added to it different materials which he had picked from the English/Welsh John Dee and his partner the English Edward Kelley/Talbot, whose materials were picked by them from the Italian Johannes Pantheus a.k.a. Giovanni Agostino Pantheo and his Voarchadumia Contra Alchimiam.

American/English Arthur Edward Waite, he also had his own proverbial spoon in the special Cauldron of Goetia stirrers. Although I will add, he was quite boring as a writer, but however they may be, via his writings, his literary add-ons and omissions, it does become quite apparent that in fact, he did know way too much in his own time.

But folks, he also knew very well that he couldn’t justify at the time, to tell it all.

We also find the GOETIA in the work of Robert H Turner, the translation of Paracelsus ‘ Archidoxes of Magic a.k.a Archidoxis Magica, which it is an attributed to Paracelsus, as a Grimoire of his. It contains Magical Sigils / Symbols for Talismans / Amulets, a collected work of Paracelsus by the German Johannes Huser of the Swiss area called Basel.

Seemingly, the Goetia borrows quite heavily on the Archidoxis Magica / Paracelsus’ Grimoire.

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THIS IS IT, FOLKS! It all comes down to this!

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Therefore nothing more than just Another Way of “Tapping-Into”, a System of Names/Words/Calls and Their Symbols a.k.a. Portals/Doors to their Energies / Intelligences.

I would say, I have created a Norse Rune Magick Quimbanda for myself.

How?

Quite simple indeed, simply because I decided to employ my Fav 33 Norse Runes Symbols, and their Names/Words/Calls, in order to TAP INTO, their Energies / Intelligences / Beings.

With the intent of and intentions to work with my dearest FAE / Pomba-Giras, my dear Exus, Elementals, Mayorals, etc.

If we were in those Abrahamic horrible times, They, the mainstream society and their Culture, their people would have perceived, understood and called my 33 Runes as Their 33 Demons / Devils, etc and they would’ve programmed to, as in “social-religio-politico-commercial” conditioned to react and they would have instantly assigned their Abrahamic mythological Hell and Heaven bullshit to it, plus the pathetic / moronic (made-up) war / battle of Good and Bad, (invented by the Persian Zoroaster and then borrowed/copied by all the Abrahamic Mythologies and their Religions) to each Rune.

And these Demons would be summoned by their Pagan Norse Rune Symbol and Pagan Norse Rune Words/Names/Calls.

They would do to it (The Pagan Norse Runes), the very same as what they did with the Energies / Intelligences / Beings / Symbols of the GOETIA.

These primitive bastards had added to them, their Spiritual-Dualism, their Patriarchal Ways, their invented/made-up “Hatred-For-All-Differences”, their made-up “Anti-Women Ways”, their made-up “Anti-GLBTQ+ Ways”, their arrogant prejudices, their insecurities, their fears and their willfully blind Ignorance.

That’s the Abrahamic influenced GOETIA that most of the so-called old Grimoriums, they all peddle it.

And pure rubbish indeed, when in comparison to those people who really know all of the so-called Demons (Energies, Intelligences, Beings) and also know for sure that in fact, there is “nothing biblical”, “nothing abrahamic”, “nothing jewish”, and “nothing Islamic” at all about them.

I do mean, about the REAL STUFF, but minus all the imposed wilful Ignorance, minus all the imposed wilful Intellectual Dishonesty.

So…

After you junk all that unnecessary rubbish and get rid of the biblical men-made inventions, then you are ready for some real GOETIA + QUIMBANDA.

Hell, or even a RUNE + QUIMBANDA, or yet a Pagan Tarot plus Quimbanda, or yet, a Pagan Egyptian Magick + Quimbanda, there are not any limitations at all.

I have worked with the ancient Pagan Egyptian Goddesses and Gods, with the ancient Pagan Celtic & Pagan Norse Goddesses and Gods and with their Elementals / Fae / Pomba-Giras & Exus.

And folks, in the end, it is all very much the same.

Still, they all are Different Energies / Intelligences / Species / Beings and Different Symbols and Different Words/Names/Calls, but of course!

However, it is all about EVOLUTION for Them, for me, for you and for us all.

It is all about a Good Life, Quality of Life while you are here in this elemental world and time-band.

It is about DIGNITY & LOYALTY to your POMBA-GIRAS & EXUS, come what may, no matter what, be loyal, be honourable, be dignified to Yourself first and to the Pomba-Giras and Exus, to the Mayorals, to the ancient Pagan Goddesses and Gods.

There are many Differences, many different operating Influences and Powers, many different Levels / Dimensions & Expressions thereof, but they All (no exceptions) share the fact that they’re a part of, they also partake in eternal and infinite EVOLUTION originating from the Ultimate Supreme Being Source of all Existence, of all Life, of all Species, of All and Everything.

Quimbanda is fluid, it is not frozen in time and in space.

Pagan Quimbanda is not anybody’s property, it belongs to everybody who can find It within themselves first.

Quimbanda is a part of Evolution.

If you approach QUIMBANDA, be it whichever different branch of it may be, it is all founded and based upon mutual Dignity, mutual Evolution in all Works, in all the Magick.

Good and Bad are Labels, Adjectives / Qualifications which WE as a Species, we employ without the benefit of the Other Person’s Soul’s pre-natal Plans, and without the Soul’s pre-Incarnation Choices / Script and Agreements with Other Souls incarnating along with that Soul with intent of specific work for their Mutual Evolution and that of Others affected by them on Earth.

Evolution comes first and Evolution comes in all “highs and in all lows”, from the worst to the best events and situations.

Death, loss, destruction and endings, they do not really end nor stop any Species nor anything at all!

Because Existence / Life goes on beyond these short / tiny “journeys from cradle to grave”, in these Elemental Realms such as this Place/this Earth of this Time-band.

Quimbanda + Goetia can be Pagan and that way, meaningful, beautiful and dear!

I salute all of the beings, intelligences, energies of all the Pagan Norse Runes, of all the Pagan Goetia (minus all of the Abrahamic rubbish)!

I salute all the Pagan Goddesses and Gods!

I salute, I Iove and I adore all POMBA-GIRAS & EXUS, ELEMENTALS / FAE!

They’re Family, they become family when you become a part of it!

Once family, always family somehow!

It is the bonds of love and trust, they reach out for us across many time-bands, many lifetimes/incarnations and many different locations in many realms / places.

Cheers Viva Salve Hail Laroye — All Quimbanda Mayorals, all Pomba-Giras and all Exus

Cheers,

SKY a.k.a. PADILLA

Also known as JD Aeon

( SKY aussi connue comme PADILLA of Ashtoreth and/or as PADILHA DO BRASIL, tambem conhecida como NINS of the Norse Vanir, a.k.a. GLBTQ+ Dea, a.k.a. Mel (short for Melusine de France) also known as JD Aeon and/or JDAeon and/or simply as JD )

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GLBTQ+ Pansexual M-a-F TGIRL Transgenera — Permanente Non-Op — Trans-Pagã-Sacerdotisa / Yalorixá & Trans-Yayá / Olorisha / Bruxa Feiticeira Macumbeira Shaman Holistique Ocultista & Consultora GLBTQ+ Pagã / Wiccan & Quimbandeira 100% Pagã

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GLBTQ+ Pansexuelle (M à F TGIRL Permanente Non-Op) Trans-Prêtresse Sorcière Magicienne Chaman Occultiste Holistique et Conseillère GLBT-Pa��enne / Wiccan et Quimbandiste Païenne

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[cathrynstreich]

2018 NAGLREP Conference to Garner Historic Turnout

The fifth annual National Association of Gay and Lesbian Real Estate Professionals (NAGLREP) Conference, Oct. 2-4 in Palm Springs, will gather leaders from both the LGBT community and real estate, including keynote speaker Sarah McBride, national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC); Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac; Vince Malta, first vice president of the National Association of REALTORS®; and John Peyton, CEO of Realogy Franchise Group. The conference is now open to registrants at www.naglrep.com/2018/.

“It is incredibly important that NAGLREP continue to be a bridge between the real estate industry and the LGBT community,” says Jeff Berger, founder of NAGLREP. “Both sides are working to eliminate housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and we also understand the need to showcase the benefits of homeownership to the LGBT community. The gathering of so many leaders from real estate and the LGBT community at our conference will be astounding.”‘

McBride, author of “Tomorrow Will Be Different,” became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in an address at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

On hand will also be AARP Senior Advisor and National LGBT Liaison Nii-Quarterlai Quartey, who will detail his life as an activist, while Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Omar Gonzalez-Pagan will discuss his role in winning the 2017 Colorado case that found the federal Fair Housing Act’s sex discrimination prohibition covers LGBTs. Leaders from Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce will also showcase the importance of housing in the lives of the LGBT community.

Bank of America is the presenting sponsor.

For more information, please visit www.naglrep.com.

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Blog Post 13: The Gays, Lesbians, and Queers of Paganism

As it wasn’t hard enough to be socially and spiritually accepted by society and other major religions gays, lesbians, and queers were still struggling to be accepted by a religious group that was willing to have a voice for yourself and think for yourself. However, that was still a struggle for the GLBT community as they were hiding who they were to fit in with the pagan religion to make sure they had the same opportunity to practice paganism like everyone else. As mentioned in the text “So we learn to use the safety net of camouflaging ourselves pretty often, even from each other. Some queer people do that by sublimating their sexuality and focusing on heterosexual people.” (Adler 366) They would keep themselves in hiding and act straight to make themselves feel accepted by others and the most powerful quote from this text was “Being tolerated is fine. At least they don’t want to kill me here.” (Adler 366) To be tolerated in this religious group that supposedly is about equal representation is not making sense in this case. They are giving the women the power and respect that they deserve however, the feminine men and masculine women of the GLBT community are viewed as bizarre. When many of these people of the community decided to be more Neo-pagan and praise the Gay Gods and Lesbian Goddesses   many could not believe what they were praising and that those did not exists. The voice of these people needed to be heard and they are people too and not something that does not belong in society. For them to have liberation for being who they are is important to them and to have a religion that accepts them is something liberating because at the time many disagreed to what the GLBT community believed in and who they loved as an individual.

Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon. Penguin Group, 1979

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Saint Bridget of Ireland

SAINT BRIGID LOVED HER FEMALE SOULMATE DARLUGHDACH GAY SAINTS - FEAST DAY FEBRUARY 1ST

St. Brigid and her soulmate St. Darlughdach were sixth-century Irish nuns who brought art, education and spirituality to early medieval Ireland. Brigid (c.451-525) shares her name and feast day (Feb. 1) with a Celtic goddess -- and she may have been the last high priestess of the goddess Brigid.

Raised by Druids, Brigid seems to have made a smooth transition from being a pagan priestess to a Christian abbess. Today she is Ireland’s most famous female saint. Legend says that when she made her final vows as a nun, the bishop in charge was so overcome by the Holy Spirit that he administered the rite for ordaining a (male) bishop instead.

A younger nun named Darlughdach served as Brigid’s ambassador and her “anam cara” or soul friend. The two women were so close that they slept in the same bed. Like many Celtic saints, Brigid believed that each person needs a soul friend to discover together that God speaks most powerfully in the seemingly mundane details of shared daily life. The love between these two women speaks to today’s lesbians and their allies. Some say that Brigid and Darlughdach are lesbian saints.

Brigid started convents all over Ireland and became the abbess of the “double monastery” (housing both men and women) at Kildare. Built on land that was previously sacred to her divine namesake, the monastery included an art school for creating illuminated manuscripts.

After turning 70, Brigid warned Darlughdach that she expected to die soon. Her younger soulmate begged to die at the same time. Brigid wanted her to live another year so she could succeed her as abbess. Brigid died of natural causes on Feb. 1, 525. The bond between the women was so close that Darlughdach followed her soulmate in death exactly one year later on Feb. 1, 526.

Both Christians and pagans celebrate St. Brigid’s Day on Feb. 1. It is also known as Imbolc, a spring festival when the goddess Brigid returns as the bride of spring in a role similar to the Greek Persephone.

Brigid’s main symbol was fire, representing wisdom, poetry, healing and metallurgy. The nuns at the Kildare monastery kept a perpetual fire burning in Brigid’s memory for more than a thousand years -- until 1540 when it was extinguished in Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The Order of St. Brigid was reestablished in 1807. Two Brigidine sisters returned to Kildare and relit the fire in the market square for the first time in more than 400 years on Feb. 1, 1993. The perpetual flame is now kept at the Solas Bhride (Brigid’s Light) Celtic Spirituality Center that they founded there.

Brigid and Darlughdach are shown with their arms around each other in the above icon by Brother Robert Lentz. He is a Franciscan friar and world-class iconographer known for his progressive icons. The two women are dressed in the white gowns worn by Druid priestesses and Celtic nuns. Flames burn above them and on the mandala of Christ that they carry. It is one of 40 icons featured in his book “Christ in the Margins.”

The icon was commissioned by the Living Circle, a Chicago-based interfaith spirituality center for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community and their friends. Four Living Circle members took the original icon to Kildare with them in 2000 for the flame-lighting ceremony at the recently excavated site of Brigid’s ancient fire temple.

Dennis O��Neill, the priest who founded the Living Circle, includes the icon and an excellent biography of Brigid and Darlughdach in his book “Passionate Holiness: Marginalized Christian Devotions for Distinctive People.”

[eloreenmoon]

Knight of Flames (Inheritance 2) by Amelia Faulkner #LGBT #Review #Fantasy #Paranormal #MM

Knight of Flames (Inheritance 2) by Amelia Faulkner #LGBT #Review #Fantasy #Paranormal #MM @_AmeliaFaulkner

Marc reviews ‘Knight of Flames’ (Inheritance Book #2) by Amelia Faulkner. This book was release by LoveLight Press on August 23rd, 2016 and is ~460 pgs long.

RGR recieved a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Why I read this book: While I didn’t immediately get drawn into book one, I ended up really enjoying it and looking forward to this sequel. Now that I knew and cared…

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Jack of Thorns by Amelia Faulkner #LGBT #Review #Fantasy #Paranormal #MM #FREE

Jack of Thorns by Amelia Faulkner #LGBT #Review #Fantasy #Paranormal #MM #FREE @LoveLightPress @_AmeliaFaulkner

Marc reviews ‘Jack of Thorns’ (Inheritance Book #1) by Amelia Faulkner. This book was release by LoveLight Press on May 9th, 2016 and is 444 pages long. RGR recieved a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is available for free for a limited time on Amazon!!!

Florist. Psychic. Addict. Laurence Riley coasts by on good looks and natural charm, but underneath lies a dark…