Why did God create People?

A friend wrote something very depressing a few years ago. “Why the hell did God make us? If He created us, why didn’t He make us perfect? If He is all-knowing and all-perfect, He could have created us perfect. But we failed. …And now we suffer for it.” But she seems to have forgotten

Polytheism as a Reflection of Source

I was having a discussion with a friend about this just today and want to make sure she doesn’t miss this link.

Anubis, God of Challenge

Feel free to search on Google or Wikipedia for information on this god. I certainly can’t put it all here.

Anubis, first and foremost, judged the Dead. He was

Revisiting the Elements, Reinventing the Wheel

I was over at Witchvox today reading up on some articles from last week when I ran across one about Elemental Correspondences. Shadow Knight wrote, “Why do we correspond the elements to these directions? Who set the elements in these correspondences? What experiments did they use? … I say it is time we as a magical community start questioning tradition. I say it is time we go back and revisit the ancients and rerun their experiments with more modern techniques and equipment to see if what they found still holds water or if we need to adjust our thinking to new evidence.”

I have to disagree.

Leading Pagans

There are a few pages out there about leading a Coven, and thinking about why you want to do this thing before you even try it. They all examine the motives of the person who wants to try leading and what they hope to get out of it. What is missing is

Lunar Goals

Full Moon Goals – Quit smoking, shield my home, learn my purpose in life at this time.

New Moon Goals – Decide how that purpose fits into my life and the steps needed to accomplish it, work on healing the damage done to me by smoking and by my birth family, ask for the blessings of the Gods in my search for faith and fellowship.

Waxing Moon Goals – Attract energy to this home so that the goals of everyone in it can be accomplished, find a positive story.

Waning Moon Goals – Quit smoking, be less angry.

Dark of the Moon Goals – None.

The Goddess in the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints

There a nifty forum out there with a really interesting mix of people. In one of the posts, I found a link to this about the Heavenly Mother. I had some thoughts of my own about what she had to say. But the first thing I want to say, is I certainly support her wish to be Anonymous. Enough people over-react to what they don’t understand that her fears are certainly understandable.