<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.8.4" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Janet Callahan</title>
	<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com</link>
	<description>Pagan Author and Lecturer</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:56:56 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Using Those Spiritual Muscles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other morning, I woke up, and it hurt. My arms hurt, my calf muscles hurt.
Hurting was a good thing though. I&#8217;d spent the previous day&#8217;s karate class working pretty hard, but at my private lesson after class, I said to my instructor, &#8220;you know, I think I&#8217;m doing something strange when I punch &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/57</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Some deep thinking, and a clue-by-four (as if I needed another one)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clue-by-four of the week: I know what I&#8217;m doing, I know what I need, and if I don&#8217;t find it within, I will surely not find it without &#8211; so I might as well get on with it.
 
Last night, I did the unthinkable. I went, completely blind, to a meeting about a local &#8220;women&#8217;s circle&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/46</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Trying to reorganize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time, no post. It has been a rather complicated year, with the baby spending more than 9 months in the hospital, my husband breaking his leg in a car accident, and so on and so on. It&#8217;s kind of put spiritual life on hold, because there&#8217;s just been too many other things that needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/45</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Claiming my blog on Technorati</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Profile    
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/44</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>writing as magick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me this morning that blogging (and, by extension, writing in general) is something I use as a magickal tool.
In most magickal systems, we talk about words having power &#8211; and writing weaves those words together. Writing creates a sigil of sorts &#8211; while the typical sigil condenses an idea into a single [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/43</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>a brief update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for not updating lately &#8211; I&#8217;ve been spending way too much time at the hospital with our little boy, who is now right at 3 months old (his due date would have been this Friday) and still on a pretty hefty amount of O2 support to breathe well.
We only got one &#8220;Pagan&#8221; gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/42</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Close Encounters of the Goddess Kind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a rather odd encounter in a meditation last night. But I think you need the background to really understand it.
Not quite a year ago, I took Kali up on a promise she&#8217;d offered me: she would wield her axe on my behalf if I chose the target wisely. I had sat on that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/41</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Pagan Mid-Life Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me this weekend why there&#8217;s such a clamoring for &#8220;more advanced&#8221; books. Yes, it&#8217;s partly because there are so many books for beginners, or near-beginners, and not a lot beyond that. But I think a bigger problem is that after a few years, we get stuck in this sort of mid-life crisis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/40</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Libations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last couple of years, I&#8217;ve been leaving my libations and offerings in the back corner of our yard &#8211; particularly full moon and dark moon offerings, but others as the mood strikes me. It&#8217;s piled with large landscaping rocks, and we&#8217;ve always left it to grow somewhat wild &#8211; though the fire pit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/39</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>strength and fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear&#8211;not absence of fear. &#8221;
&#8211;Mark Twain
I&#8217;ve been rather quiet this month. Life has been busy, there&#8217;ve been hard choices to make, and I really just needed time to do some internal processing about all the changes going on.
The benefit of a daily practice is that once it becomes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/37</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
