PostPagan

The last few years I have fallen into the role of director for land oriented ceremony for my Unitarian Universalism congregation. It began with the short speech as part of a pagan service, which was later made into a video by my friend Rogerio. This was fallowed up by a couple of services of my own the topic of Bioregional Animism. Soon I found my self struggling to find common ground between the religious naturalists and the neopagans within the community. This lead to a couple of successful winter solstice ceremonies, and a hand full of ceremonies for both equinoxes and the summer solstice. I have learned the value of ceremony in a communal setting this way.

This post is a part of the
Animist Blog Carnaval of March 2013

The cosmologist Brian Swimme describes time as the measurement of decay. We are born, we get old, and we die; stones erode; suns deplete their energy and explode in supernova. Numerous calendars in human culture developed to mark the passing of time. Western culture has a linear concept of time, where other cultures view it as circular or a spiral. In terrestrial terms time is measured by the rotation of the earth around the sun and is a product of gravitational pull. One year is a complete rotation. Effort has been made to measure time on other planets in our solar system the same way. Time is one of the great mysteries studied by religion, philosophy, and science alike.