Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it."
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"My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"I mean every word of my divine chaos."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Everyone you meet is an aspect of the gods and has a lesson to teach you."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"If you can't feel the touch of the gods on your own, it greatly behooves you to work on that before some lecher tells you his touch is just as good."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need a wish. She can believe in wishes, since it is the familiar magic of wells, birthdays, and first stars."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powerful enough to kill thousands of innocent strangers when all she meant to do was water her mugwort. She can't be challenged to produce evidence of this, because doing could provoke earthquakes and Africanized bee attacks."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity from all sides."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"I miss more loving someone so deeply that I can't imagine a forever without her kisses."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
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