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		<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 - and writing weaves those words together. Writing creates a sigil of sorts - while the typical sigil condenses an idea into a single [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/43</link>
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		<title>a brief update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for not updating lately - 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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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 - 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 - though the fire pit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/39</link>
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		<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>
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		<title>Group ritual &#038; regular practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I went to my first &#8220;group&#8221; full moon ritual (actually, my first group ritual of any sort) in over a year.
Between my initiation at Imbolc last year, and the directions my coven was heading at the time, I felt I needed a break to get my own house in order before continuing with that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/36</link>
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		<title>Infertility as a Pagan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote most of this (using the title &#8220;Fluffy Wicca: More Misogynistic than Christianity&#8221; – can you tell I was really angry at the time?) back in April of 2003 on a yahoo group that was focused on venting about fluffy Wiccan tendencies. Out of the responses to that, I created http://www.paganinfertilityadoption.net, a community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/35</link>
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		<title>Daily Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the practice of religion. It&#8217;s an odd thing; I&#8217;ve rarely discussed this with anyone before, and it&#8217;s actually a little intimidating - so much of what I do is based on my own trial and error, which was based on reading and listening (and a very tiny bit of group ritual experience). I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/34</link>
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		<title>Group Stability Warning Signs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a workshop I do from time to time on why groups fail. One of the things I talk about is group stability. What makes a group hold together, and what makes it fall apart.
There are lots of articles and lists out there that tell you what sort of things to look out for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/33</link>
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