Comments on: Expand and contract. Repeat ad nauseum. http://bella-magic.com/2008/11/27/expand-and-contract-repeat-ad-nauseum/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: bella http://bella-magic.com/2008/11/27/expand-and-contract-repeat-ad-nauseum/#comment-111 bella Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:22:10 +0000 http://bella-magic.com/?p=136#comment-111 @Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ): What a wonderful idea, making one's own calendar! I'll do that, thanks! @Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ): What a wonderful idea, making one’s own calendar! I’ll do that, thanks!

]]> By: Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ) http://bella-magic.com/2008/11/27/expand-and-contract-repeat-ad-nauseum/#comment-103 Eridanus (seer-eridanus on LJ) Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:17:38 +0000 http://bella-magic.com/?p=136#comment-103 The interview I did with the budding folklorist was about a calendar I did for Pagans in the DC. It was a middle ground: - using the societal calendar [because us Pagans are too involved with the world to convert their schedule to lunar/agricultural]; - the need for support in a secular society/culture; - recognizing that Pagan calendars are local, and DC is not agricultural; and, - the need to be in sync for where/what we are. I renamed the months, to remind us of what was that month in our spirituality. I used less agricultural names for the holidays to speak to an urban population (divorced from the farming). I noted peculiar holidays to DC (Cherry Blossom Blooming). Cross quarter holidays were from the traditional observed to the astrological (because it felt they were that long= Samhain/All Souls Passing was 7/8 days long). And I made each quarter holiday 3 days. So, in all holidays, there was time for ritual, for celebration, and for fellowship. The calendar is in one of my earliest entries on my website: treptower.com. It helps me a lot. and fits where I live. I'm, also, in a contracting mood. That you for posting The interview I did with the budding folklorist was about a calendar I did for Pagans in the DC. It was a middle ground:
- using the societal calendar [because us Pagans are too involved with the world to convert their schedule to lunar/agricultural];
- the need for support in a secular society/culture;
- recognizing that Pagan calendars are local, and DC is not agricultural; and,
- the need to be in sync for where/what we are.

I renamed the months, to remind us of what was that month in our spirituality. I used less agricultural names for the holidays to speak to an urban population (divorced from the farming). I noted peculiar holidays to DC (Cherry Blossom Blooming). Cross quarter holidays were from the traditional observed to the astrological (because it felt they were that long= Samhain/All Souls Passing was 7/8 days long). And I made each quarter holiday 3 days. So, in all holidays, there was time for ritual, for celebration, and for fellowship. The calendar is in one of my earliest entries on my website: treptower.com.

It helps me a lot. and fits where I live.

I’m, also, in a contracting mood. That you for posting

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