With none of my household being Christian, Christmas is an odd holiday to celebrate. But as my daughter so aptly observed, “I like getting presents!” Yes, tis the season! Commerce has packaged December as the month of buying, whether you be Christian, Jewish, or African-American, or none of these. Who wants to be left out [...]
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A 2-Dimensional Christmas and Other Ways to Yank the Rug Out From Under the Holidaze
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, Making Things, New Old Traditions, tagged christmas, gift giving, muhammad, noble drew ali, omigog, presents on December 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
An Incomplete Halfwit’s Guide to Hosting a Feast of Fools
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged ass cult, dionysos, feast of fools, feast of the circumcision, Holidays, mass of asses on November 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.” —G. K. Chesterton Among the scattering of winter holidays, both sacred and secular, there is nothing quite like the medieval Feast of Fools, an event once loathed by both Catholic and Protestant alike [...]
ONALISTUS REVELER IGNITES THE ALTAR OF HONOR’D DEATHS
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged anarcho-, brooklyn, chaos magick, new old halloween, new old halloween dinner of death, New Old Traditions, onalistus reveler, the good house reveler on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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THE PLEASURE DOME & ME: Visions from the Moorish Orthodox Church
Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged david hanson, disturbathon, hakim bey, hot tub mystery religion, mondo 2000, moorish orthodox church, nick herbert, pleasure domes, texas on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was a senior in high school when I first heard of the Pleasure Dome. I had just been kicked out of J.R.O.T.C. for a series of subversive pranks, and an agreement was reached with the Drama Department that I could finish out the year there and receive full credit. My drama teacher was a [...]
HARVEST MOON TIME
Posted in Holidays, New Old Traditions on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
That’s right, kiddies. It’s Harvest Moon time. And, with that brings the beginning of the Resting Tide and the downward swing of the year. Hooray! From the New Old Hymnal of Holiday Happiness: FALL EQUINOX: “The Birth of the Moon” (On/around September 21st) By nightfall we will once again celebrate a birth, the birth of [...]
INDEPENDENCE DAY: With Beauty and Fecundity For All
Posted in Features, Holidays, tagged corporate america, hakim bey, independence day, patriotism, zomba on July 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What does it mean to be a patriotic American in this day and age? If we shop at Wal-Mart, we may be under the impression it means buying red, white, and blue plastic crap—extruded petroleum from China, of course. Newspapers suggest that being patriotic means supporting the wars du jour, rooting for the home team [...]
REMEMBERING IN TIME: Memorial Day, ritual, and thoughts in silence
Posted in Holidays, tagged holocaust, israel, memorial day, moment of silence, palestine, soldiers, united states, war, Yom HaShoah on May 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As we ponder the history and meaning of our New Old Traditions, Memorial Day is upon us. Barbecues and clearance sales! Car races and a day off from school! Apparently these things that most Americans associate with Memorial Day are the reasons that prompted Congress to pass a bill in 2000 that declared 3pm on [...]
PAGAN POLICE CAN TAKE OFF FOR PAGAN HOLIDAYS: Novel concept of “equality” rippling through the UK
Posted in Holidays, News, tagged pagan holidays, pagan police group, pagan police officers on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On the heels of the recent New Jersey school system vote to allow school children to take off for pagan holidays, it appears, in at least the UK, police officers are now allowed to do the same. The Pagan Police Association claimed yesterday that it had been recognised by the Home Office as a “diversity [...]
MAY DAY HAYMARKET FESTIVAL RECAP: Springfield, IL
Posted in Holidays, tagged activism, anarchism, haymarkey affair, may day, mother jones, pagan holidays, paganism on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The organizers of the 2nd Annual Haymarket Festival in Springfield, Illinois, did so on behalf of the people of Springfield. Organizer Drew Duzinskas said, “It’s about coming together in spring. I like to see cool things happen this time of year.” His intention in participating in the planning was to put on an event that [...]
MAYDAY/BELTANE 101
Posted in Holidays, tagged basics, beltane, celtic, christian, haymarkey affair, may day, pagan on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
May Day is celebrated by different peoples for many reasons. May Day is the traditional Labor Day, or International Workers’ Day, often celebrated with demonstrations, rallies, and street marches by unions, anarchists, and socialist groups. In the United States, May Day is celebrated as a remembrance of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886, in [...]
MAYDAY! BELTANE! MAYDAY! BELTANE!: Three images
Posted in Holidays, tagged chaos magick, immigrant solidarity, maypole dancing, neo-pagan on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
HAPPY EARTH DAY: Derrick Jensen on spiritual and ecological death urges
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged anti-civilization, civilization, derrick jensen, earth day, environmentalism, green washing, john zerzan on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
MERRY IN THE EAST ON THIS EASTER OF RISING SUNS. HAIL! HAIL!
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged christian, easter, god, horus, jesus, oestre, pagan, sun god on April 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
FIVE APRIL FOOLS TO AVOID or THE GREATEST PRANKS OF ALL TIME: A short illustrated guide
Posted in Holidays, tagged april fools day, humor, illustration, queen of swords on April 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
1. Anything that requires writing “April Fools!” in lighter fluid.
WHAT IS BIRTH ON THIS VERNAL EQUINOX? by Annie Reveler
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged anthropocene era, babies, birth, children, climate change, global warming, nature, pagan, spring equinox on March 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Children. The decision to bring them into the world. A world. This world. Our personal avatars into the future. Avatars, earthly incarnations of gods and goddesses. Or, virtual representations, or alter-ego. This world, the Anthropocene Era: systems beginning to fail, great die-out of species, climactic shifts, even the seasons, the great rhythm, put in chaos.
THE SPRING EQUINOX ACCORDING TO THE N.O.T.: A celebration of difference, new memes, and new visions
Posted in Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged equality, equinox, gender, hermaphroditus, holy king, neo-pagan, oak king, solstice, summer, transgender on March 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
HALLMARKS OF THE SPRING EQUINOX AS REVELATED WITHIN THE N.O.T. Birth On the Spring Equinox the sun is born and immediately begins to influence our day-to-day activities. People start looking forward to picnics and parkside cook-outs. The thump-and-boom of dancehall auto speakers ushers in what promises to be another outdoor summer, while the unraveling of [...]
A SEASON OF VIOLENCE: A Meditation for the Coming Spring and the intensity that is the home birth
Posted in Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged birth, Blodeuwedd, flower goddess, home birth, Llew, rebirth, spring, spring equinox on March 19, 2010 | 8 Comments »
As spring arrives, We Revelers focus on the balance between day and night. We talk of spring as a time to celebrate equality and union. We think of the peace that we will feel lying outside in the grass. We think of the flowering trees and the young tender vegetables that will soon replace our [...]
DOING IT OURSELVES: Ritualizing our holidays
Posted in Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged beltane, birth of the sun, christian, diy, green man, king of the wood, may day, midsummer, New Old Traditions, pagan, persephone, ritual, spring equinox, winter solstice on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After attending a winter solstice get-together that was entirely infused with ritual and meaning, I decided to recreate this experience on the vernal (spring) equinox. Although the winter solstice gathering was enjoyed by a large group of extended friends, I am spending March 20/21 with my lover, and so we planned our intimate rituals accordingly. [...]
UPDATE: PASSED!: NEW JERSEY APPROVES SCHOOL CALENDAR MAKING WICCAN/PAGAN HOLIDAYS LEGIT
Posted in Holidays, News, tagged Holidays, new jersey, pagan holidays, wiccan on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
UPDATE: According to our favorite NJ pagan on the scene, Mrs.B, the new holiday calendar has been passed. What does this mean for school kids in NJ? Don’t want to pass on any false info, but we think it means you can be excused from school for Samhain! Boo yah! We’ve got a call in [...]
HOW TO BE A LITTLE BIT IRISH: Part 2—Celebrate the important things in life
Posted in Holidays, tagged Colcannon, How to be Irish, Irish, Irish Dancing, Soda Bread, st. patrick's day on March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Last week I explained what not to do to celebrate a very New Old St. Patrick’s Day. Then Onalistus gave us some exciting history of the tensions between our dear saint and our dearer pagan brethren with some advice on how to honor that. But, now that March 17th is upon us, I know all [...]
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