0 Comments | March 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm by mahud
My spiritual beliefs have been and remain to an extent shaped by Christianity. Growing up I didn’t really have much exposure to spirituality. I was raised in a monotheistic culture. I knew the stories of the Old and New Testaments. I sang Christian Hymns every morning at school. But It was never something that had […]
5 Comments | March 4, 2010 at 8:46 am by mahud
The Problem is how can a Bible believing Christian be both faithful to their Christian calling without demonizing other faiths?
My only solution, if I were a Christian, would be to accept that the Spirit of God is not only available to those who accept Christian doctrine, but rather to all who practice a […]
4 Comments | February 6, 2010 at 12:16 pm by mahud
To live as a Pagan or any other religious practitioner the basic requirement is to recognize the divine and revere it. I’ve always liked (since I first heard it anyway) the Zoroastrian maxim of “good thoughts good words and good deeds,” and I think it is a good place to start when approaching the divine. […]
4 Comments | January 30, 2010 at 10:28 am by mahud
Reading Ali’s post Meadowsweet and Myrrh: Aesthetics and the Sacred, made me think some more about the sacred. Originally it was going to just be a short comment response on how I viewed the sacred in everything (and a newly planted idea in my mind about the nature of things that I think is best […]
8 Comments | June 27, 2009 at 8:18 pm by mahud
Another contribution to the International Pagan Values Blogging Month
I don’t believe we live in a universe where two opposing truths can both be true. Maybe that’s a little bit simplistic and un-philosophical of me. And I find myth a more helpful spiritual guide than philosophy. I’ve never been much in to scientific theories beyond my […]
2 Comments | May 21, 2009 at 5:52 am by mahud
Pax over at Chrysalis is shouting out for Pagan Bloggers to participate in International Pagan Values Blogging Month.
Count me in Pax!
0 Comments | April 5, 2009 at 3:14 pm by mahud
From life to death. To death from life. From life to death.
Cernunnos manifest and re-create through the mystery of death.
In darkness and in light give freedom to my footsteps
and guide me into your secret place.
There, grant me rest in your abundant peace.
Cernunnos’ Path: The Incense Path (Incense Ritual)
Tarot Question Addressed to Cernunnos
Q: How is my […]
4 Comments | March 26, 2009 at 6:00 am by mahud
This past month has been difficult for me. Hopefully, within this new lunar cycle and month of April, I’ll return more to myself and be able to feel Pagan again (This ’spiritual’ stuff doesn’t come as naturally to me as I’d like it to). Starting today, I am committing myself to daily meditation. A few […]
1 Comment | February 17, 2009 at 8:37 pm by mahud
What distinguishes the witness of the prophets and the apostles, so that it can have this significance for the existence of the congregation and its proclamation to the world? After all, they were men fallible as we are, children of their time as we are of ours, and their spiritual horizon was as limited as […]
2 Comments | January 30, 2009 at 9:13 am by mahud
The Cyclic Serpent
The tail devouring serpent, known as the Ouroboros, is unarguably a cyclic symbol. In Norse mythology it is the sea-dwelling Midgard Serpent (Jormungand) that surrounds the world (Voluspa 50; Gylfaginning 34, 48; Skaldskaparmal 4; Hymiskvida 22; Husdrapa 4), making it a symbol of the cosmos, or like the Greek god Oceanos, the ocean […]
1 Comment | January 22, 2009 at 11:41 am by mahud
A Mythology is like a series of sign posts, that direct us through this cosmic mystery, which is also the mystery of our own existence. Mythology is a product of the sub-conscious, which in turn, is the product of the underlying cause of all things, and so creation myths and end of the world myths, […]
1 Comment | January 9, 2009 at 9:23 pm by mahud
In my previous post On the Threshold Between One Life Path and Another, I said that, “I’m a big believer that everyone whether they are secular or spiritually inclined are, in the larger scheme of things, on the right path towards whatever it is that their life is ultimately about.” By this, I am not […]
5 Comments | January 7, 2009 at 7:22 am by mahud
I was sad to learn via The Wild Hunt: Outgrowing Paganism? that the excellent Deo’s Shadow will no longer be podcasting. It’s been pretty obvious for some time that it was over. Now it is official
I’m a big believer that everyone whether they are secular or spiritually inclined are, in the larger scheme […]
3 Comments | January 5, 2009 at 1:45 am by mahud
Some time ago I was considering following a pantheon (either Irish-Celtic or Nordic, as I’m English-Irish). I inquired about this using Tarot, asking, “Should I become familiar with the Celtic or Norse divinities?” On reflection it was a dumb question, as it is my experience that Tarot (my prime method of communication with the divine) […]
1 Comment | January 1, 2009 at 1:47 pm by mahud
Happy New Year!
As you can see I’ve given the blog an overall, changed the title (formally known as ‘Between Old and New Moons’) to “Cernunnos’ Path” and have created a logo to represent my religious path through Pagan-Mythic symbolism.
The idea for the logo was largely the by-product of ritual I created and performed by […]
2 Comments | December 17, 2008 at 11:07 pm by mahud
I am on Cernunnos’ Path
Is he the One or but one of the Many: I know not
Is he the Logos or the Mythos: I differentiate not.
Is he the Male or Female, both or neither: I know not
…not yet.
Woven within his labyrinthine antlers resides a mystery: I understand not.
I know his name is Cernunnos: His […]
2 Comments | December 14, 2008 at 6:29 pm by mahud
I shall Learn through relationship with the divine. Spend time practising my path. Widen my spiritual-self as far as possible. I may need to be as far-reaching as the cosmos itself, before I’ll ever wholly understand. Do not seek to wholly understand. Be boundless.
Keep the speed of self-cultivation down to a minimum. Let the […]
2 Comments | November 4, 2008 at 1:56 am by mahud
Around a week ago, Jeff posted his third and final part of the Steve Pavlina Book Review.
I had been meditating/pondering quite a bit the hero’s/fool’s journey quite a bit, and I shuffled and cut the deck and flipped over the Fool. I thought it would be cool if I could try again and flip The […]
6 Comments | August 28, 2008 at 9:20 pm by mahud
Thank you all for your fantastic contributions:
Faith and the Hero’s Journey (Hawk’s Cry: The voice of a witch)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied (Between Old and New Moons)
Lions at the Door (Quaker Pagan Reflections)
More Than These Words (Aquila ka Hecate)
Journeying to Otherworlds (The Dance of the Elements)
Mythology Synchroblog 4: Children’s Story for Mabo (Pagan Dad)
Underground Ruminations […]
12 Comments | August 21, 2008 at 3:54 am by mahud
This post is one of many in the fourth Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied
Our transition from child to adulthood to old age to death is often marked by some kind of rite of passage within various systems of belief. Each transition, in reality, is a gradual one: […]
2 Comments | August 12, 2008 at 2:30 am by mahud
One night, eight or so years ago, after a period of (what is known within Christian circles as) backsliding, I was reading a recently acquired translation of the Upanishads, when I came upon the opening Upanishad in a translation by Juan Mascaro. You can read the Isa/Isha Upanishad here, but here’s a brief excerpt from […]
5 Comments | August 1, 2008 at 7:24 pm by mahud
Thank You Grian for responding to my post So who is this Cernunnos dude? (A to Z).
This post was originally a comment in response to Griane’s comment, but as is often the case it evolved into something worthy of posting status. Griane (Lee Hutchings of Panthea: All Things Are Goddess) has also posted her […]
4 Comments | July 30, 2008 at 5:31 pm by mahud
The current incarnation of my altar
My Altar has been steadily evolving since I first set it up back in October last year. The mythical symbolism remains the same. The necklace (symbolic of lunar-cosmic space-time) I’ve replaced with a wonderful wooden snake I won at a medieval fair last weekend. As soon as I saw it […]
2 Comments | March 18, 2008 at 10:16 am by mahud
This weekend Shanny and I travelled to Medicine Hat, which is like a hours drive from Brooks. Neither of us drive and so Shanny’s mum was wonderful enough to drive us. We ate Chinese food and looked around the various shops and stuff, keeping an eye out for bookstores. I spotted one second hand bookstore […]
6 Comments | January 23, 2008 at 7:54 am by mahud
It was great to discover a recent post at Simple Magics: Solitary Series - Venturing into the Community. I’m uncertain where my interest in Paganism is taking me. I’ve recently delved deeper into Wicca. I’ve read various introductory stuff off the internet and Google Books, and have read (and skimmed) through Buckland’s Complete Book of […]
2 Comments | November 13, 2007 at 9:45 am by mahud
Experiencing the Presence of the Gods?: Part One
Towards the end of the week I read some very encouraging and uplifting posts from other Pagan Bloggers whose relationship and awareness of the gods, added some fresh perspective. October Blogging Highlights: Effortless Spirituality
A previous post, in which I highlighted my spiritual shortcomings and frustrations, R.E advised “ask […]
16 Comments | October 22, 2007 at 10:18 am by mahud
I’m spiritually inept.
Part of my problem is unbelief. This has a lot to do with why I ceased living as a Christian. To be precise, my prayer life ceased. For intermittent periods of time over 10 years, I would pray. I would repeatedly pray for myself and others, but nothing in my life […]
6 Comments | October 3, 2007 at 12:55 pm by mahud
I’ve finally set up an altar, and have chosen an image of Cernunnos as a representation of my Panentheistic understanding of divinity. The arrangement is pretty simple to look at, although It is based on a wide range of mythic images, as I understand them.
Altar (click image to enlarge)
The necklace represents the cosmic order […]
6 Comments | September 5, 2007 at 11:23 pm by mahud
This post originally started out as a comment to a recent post at Druid Journal, Hearing the Song of the World, where Jeff shares the story of Komo the Shepherd boy.
It’s surprising that the tale of Komo is not traditional. I also thought of the myth of Adam, naming all the animals in the garden, […]
15 Comments | September 4, 2007 at 10:39 pm by mahud
Far beyond all oceans, lakes, rivers and springs, Medusa coils endlessly, weaving the web of life, like a half forgotton dance. Maneuvering through these landscapes of time, a driving audhumla, dancing down the moon laughs, and cries aloud,
“Oh, magic in these hills, in ten thousand days, will I reach Pandora’s Bazaar?”
And like […]
8 Comments | August 31, 2007 at 9:32 pm by mahud
Spontaneous fellow that I am, I simultaneously created and performed my first ritual today.
I lifted a blanket in the air, representing heaven, and laid it upon the floor, representing earth. I folded it twice, partaking in the act of creating the cosmos, and sitting in the centre, I became a part of creation.
I closed […]
6 Comments | August 18, 2007 at 9:55 pm by mahud
eirsinitiate from Birch Grove has memed me.
Rules
You have to use your own belief system for the meme. No fair using someone else’s to make a joke or satire. Being humorous about your own religion is encouraged!
You have to have at least one joy and one trial. More are encouraged. And no, they don’t have to […]
2 Comments | August 16, 2007 at 7:41 am by mahud
Thank you to everyone that has responded (so far ) to my post The Pagan Inquisition (Questions about Paganism for Pagans). I am now a Pagan expert thanks to you all . Well, not quite, but I have gained insight into the Pagan community, through asking these questions. Plus the bonus of […]
3 Comments | August 10, 2007 at 7:54 pm by mahud
Religious symbols are different from signs inasmuch as symbols participate in the reality to which they point, he (Tillich) argued. Symbols and signs both point beyond themselves to something else, but symbols participate in the meaning and power of the reality for which they stand. They open up the deepest dimension of the human soul […]
3 Comments | July 29, 2007 at 1:32 pm by mahud
Finding my spiritual path is not easy. What I know, or think I know, about the imminent and transcendent, is always a major influence on my thinking, but somehow I need to loosen my grip on my subjective projections onto everything, and try to elevate my thoughts and experiences to a different level. I need […]
42 Comments | July 24, 2007 at 6:11 pm by mahud
Questions for Pagans
Ever since I was a teenager (I’m hitting 33 now), when I began thinking about religion, I was also very much entranced by nature, but I never really made the connection. Eventually I became a Christian.
Now I’m an ex-Christian who is seriously thinking about becoming a Pagan. I have so many questions for […]
4 Comments | July 19, 2007 at 8:33 am by mahud
Is anyone familiar with what C.S Lewis terms Joy, or Sehnsucht (German: Longing)? Have you ever experienced it, and what evoked the experience?
I plan on writing a fuller explanation of C.S Lewis’s definition of ‘Joy’ in a future post, for anyone who may be unfamiliar with the concept, and provide a few personal encounters of […]
8 Comments | July 16, 2007 at 11:43 pm by mahud
Since, looking at Religion from a New Perspective, I have been figuring out how how to meditate.
I’ve been aware of the connection between dream and myth symbols for a while now, but I’ve only recently made the connection between myth and visualization, specifically through meditation.
Personal Mythology and Self-Identity
We all create our own myths […]
2 Comments | July 9, 2007 at 12:10 pm by mahud
I became a Christian around the age of twenty-one. My life before Jesus was not unlike many other Christians-to-be, whose testimonies you might of heard. I was very much a sinner. I cared about others, but I also placed my needs and desires above everyone else.
Christianity was there when I needed it
I took a […]
1 Comment | July 6, 2007 at 8:07 pm by mahud
The Nature of Mythology according to Joseph Campbell
A Myth, as Joseph Campbell understood it, is a symbolic communicator, that attempts to translate the universal mystery of existence, that cannot be consciously understood . A Mythology is like a series of sign posts, that direct us through this cosmic mystery, which is also the mystery of […]
3 Comments | June 26, 2007 at 11:19 pm by mahud
…Siddhartha began to speak and said: “Well, Govinda, are we on the right road? Are we gaining knowledge? Are we approaching salvation? Or are we perhaps going in circles—we who thought to escape from the cycle?”
Govinda said: “We have learned much, Siddhartha. There still remains much to learn. We are not going in circles, we […]
6 Comments | June 10, 2007 at 3:24 pm by mahud
I have walked the Christian path on and off for around 11 years. The former half (probably the last 4 or 5 years) as a Fundamentalist Christian, and the latter as a Liberal Christian. I never actually applied either of those terms to myself, but I guess they are the simplest ways to describe my […]
2 Comments | June 4, 2007 at 7:54 am by mahud
Dream of Shiva
In my dream I saw Shiva, then someone painted blue with long ears dressed as Shiva, and then I’m sure It was me who dressed up as the god. I remember some vague stuff about mystical marriages. I think Shiva’s wife was there also, I think it was Sati, dressed in white. It […]
3 Comments | May 19, 2007 at 10:47 pm by mahud
The description of a divine encounter given below, is almost identical to an experience I had a number of times, about ten years ago. I was on the verge of becoming a Christian, but I was unable to believe in God. I would lay on my bed at night and kind of ‘meditate’ desperate for […]
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