Beliefnet has been shifting to a new platform while I have been shifting to a different perspective towards this blog. Over the past few months I have been increasingly uncomfortable about reporting on the incredibly depraved actions by the “religious” right and its allies, while still feeling it my responsibility as a citizen to do so. It has been like diving repeatedly into a sewer, and even with a shower afterwards, some filth sticks.
At the same time the issues that really interest me spiritually are on the long side for a blog where they want me to post 5 times a week. Or they are very personal, and I don’t write personal to strangers. Given that I am a political scientist by training and analysis comes easy, this leads to renewed sewer diving. On the other hand, the political analysis I am best at is also on the long side, technical, – and is not explicitly spiritual.
Finally I was completely burnt out – hence the quiet on this site over the past couple of weeks.
One solution is to stop blogging. That may still happen in time. Certainly it is going to be different from now on.
At Ostara we invoked Hecate, and She came. Oh yes, She came. An odd ritual for Ostara but this year a very appropriate one. We asked Her to help us find the spirit of Persephone within us during these dark times. She did.
Hopefully one result will be the rejuvenation of this blog.