Written by The Calendar Maker on December 27, 2023
The great Christmas letdown–consequences of a perverse marriage between spirituality and commerce
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It’s fitting that both the day after Christmas and the day after New Year’s fall on a Tuesday this year. Tuesday is an appropriate day to wake up to after a long period of fantasy and gluttony disguised as the highest holy holiday of the year. Like other periods of gluttony and celebration, we wake
Written by The Calendar Maker on December 21, 2023
The promise of the Winter Solstice
Pagan Holidays Article
Modern humans in the Christian-dominated Western world have loaded all of their spiritual celebration energy into the months between Thanksgiving and Christmas This can make December in particular both a time of great joy and great stress and even sadness. Most Pagans, through the Wheel of the Year, spread out our seasonal celebration energy evenly
Written by The Calendar Maker on December 17, 2023
Recreating a tattoo from the “Siberian Ice Maiden?” I’m not so sure about that.
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There has been a lot of buzz about the frozen body of a 2,500 year old Pazyryk woman, known popularly as the “Siberian Ice Maiden.” She was mummified and then further well-preserved by the Siberian permafrost. The permafrost also preserved her tattoos well. One of the tattoos depicted a deer that appears to be flying.