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Nature-Based & Pagan
This week Gap, the popular US clothing chain, released its 2009 holiday ad, which I’ve already seen probably 10 times. It’s a loud and rather annoying cheer, which the first few times I heard just sounded like random shouting. After a couple more times, I realized they are cheering:
Go Christmas! Go Hanukkah! Go Kwanzaa! Go Solstice!
Yes, our religious path has been elevated to the heights of a mainstream TV commercial. I mean, they could have picked Festivus for number four, right?
They even have a website where you can choose a “cheer” from these overly cheery model/actor/dancers, personalize it, and email it to friends and family. Aw, thanks Gap. But I did not see a Pagan Solstice card among them. In fact, the solstice-inclusive chant from the TV ad is changed to
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We all have our own interpretations and honoring of the four elemental quadrants. Some of us enter our Circles in the East, direction of dawn and new beginnings. Others prefer to start in the North, that their working be well grounded and strong. At Samhain, we open a gate in the West, the direction of the Ancestors and of the Land Beyond, and we... read this article |
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