Honesty in the Seasons

For a while I wasn’t feeling very well, and was even less motivated to get online. I don’t always have something pressing on my mind that’s worth posting, and instead of posting the equivalent of “erm rocks?!?”, choose not to post any drivel at all. But I was reading an article today that made the neuro-hamster wheel start to turn.

I was reading the article When Sabbats Attack, from the PaganNews.com website, by Julie Cox. She paints those of us who can’t keep up with holidays as practitioners of ‘Lazy Paganism’. Now it isn’t that I loathe the idea of thinking about my craft, let alone the holidays. On the contrary there’s nothing I love more in this world than engaging in contemplation of the seasons, of nature and the divine. But unlike the many authors of Pagan articles who are always on the ball, and have articles ready for publication up to 3 seasons ahead of event horizon. I can’t function that way. A week after Mabon, while some practitioners were already thinking about Imbolc, I haven’t even successfully worked my way through Mabon.

But I don’t believe that the problem is motivation or indecision. Its timing. At least in my own experience, I often don’t know how I will celebrate a holiday until it is upon me. Sometimes we find different symbolism and meanings from the seasons, themselves. It could very easily strike the practitioner differently than it might have done the previous year. I think it is a much more honest approach to try to listen to nature and the seasons than what other people might publish on the subject.

~ by tavthe on October 20, 2008.