Pagan Parents on the Edge

This week Arrowind and Foxfire talk about some of their favorite magickal practices. We give a few examples of the spells we’ve cast and compare some of the things we both do the same and some of the differences. Journeying, spellcasting, dancing and drumming are just couple of the subjects at hand.

The podcast of the week this week is The College Witch with it’s host Dan. It’s also a bit of a response to one of the e-mails he read on his show. Check it out it’s got some good stuff.

I hope everyone is doing well. The economy has hit a few of our friends, Kia Dragon of Pagan Chaos Magic and Sparrow of The Wigglian Way, just to name a couple. Hold these folks, along with all the others hit by the vissitudes of the wierd economical problems we’ve all been slogging through, in your thoughts. In short keep a lookout for each other.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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On a bit of a lark we decided to interview a few of our dearest friends when we got together for a bit of a family picnic. I just love hearing the experiences of others along the path and hoped that everyone would be interested in some new voices. We had a great cookout, drank ,many adult beverages, and then captured some wonderful conversations for the show. Let us know what ya’ll think as we’d really like to do more of this in the future. Maybe not quite as long 

 I wanted to quickly apologize for the lack of contact and the lateness of the shows recently. We’re in this whole home improvement stage and between that, the bank, the job, the economy, and a number of other minor but annoying issues (computer stuff among others) we’ve just been swamped. Hopefully we’re coming back around. Thanks for hanging with us and I wanted to say thanks to Kate for the support.

There’s no Podcast of the Week or Living Out Loud segement but we plan to get back to formatt next show. We also got our hoster issues sorted out and that should get things back on track as well.

Thanks for  listening and stay in touch.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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I’ve been asking myself this question for some time now and in this episode we discuss it some. Why not atheism, why spiritualility, why magic? Are we motivated towards our higher selves by curiousity, maybe fear, or are we genetically coded to reach out to the divine. We look at this idea from both the species and personal aspects and if we find asnwers or not, it’s the looking and asking that holds the value.

I just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who’s been listening to the show. You folks are wonderful. Thanks for the i-Tunes reviews, drop us a good one if you haven’t already, we’d really appreciate it. Stay in touch any way you can, we appreciate that too.

Take care of yourselves and look out for each other.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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WOW!!!!! I am so sorry folks I have no idea what happened, when it happened, or how it happened. It was either Podbean or Filezilla. I hope I’ve got it fixed now. If not I’ll have to try again tomorrow.

 Arrowind has been wanting to do a show on Pagan values for a while now and here it is. They talk about Her’s and Foxfire’s own personal interpretations of Pagan values and how those mix with personal values. We talk some about the kids and how we’re trying to hand down our values and give them the means to make their own value judgements. We tried to do this before but it ended up being a show about morals and ethics and just wasn’t really where we wanted to go with the topic. It’s in the background but hasn’t been editted yet so I’m not sure what wil become of it. We’ve got some upcoming descisions about our hosting account to make before we decide what to do about it.

 I want to thank everyone who’s downloaded the show and I hope you’re all enjoying it. A special thanks goes out to the anonimous(sp) person who left the very first show rating on the Podbean site. We were so excited to see that. Also thank you to everyone who has added reveiws to the i-tunes page. It really means alot!

Speaking of i-Tunes, I really am hoping to hear from anyone else who’s noticed the weirdness going on there. It just seems discriminatory in a religious/spiritual way and I’m trying to figure out how hard to push this issue.

I hope Spring has sprung for everyone and that everyone is there for everyone else. You know, a hand to lend, a shoulder to cry on, and so on and so on. Take care of yourselves.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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With a quick turn around in another attempt to get back on schedule Fox and Arrowind spend some time discussing their (mostly Fox’s) views on reincarnation. We touch on past lives, old and new souls, and how these ideas affect their lives and relationships. It’s a shorter show and we’re both a little tired but it still felt interesting. Hope everybody enjoys it.

No podcast of the week this week. We’ll get back to it on the next episode. Stay tuned for the forthcoming comprhensive listing of past podcasts of the week.

Spring is finally making it’s presence felt in these parts. I hope everyone is starting to get some of it themselves. Enjoy yourselves and take care of each other!

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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Busy,,,,,,,, I mean what else can I say? Between job stress, financial stress, the system trying to gt it’s claws into us, and a wide variety of other distractions it’s been tough to get recorded and posted on time. Well we’ll just keep on keeping on.

 In this episode Arrowind and Foxfire take a bit of a ramble through several things including our most recent Oestara celebration and our feelings on the personal connection between it and the Easters of the past. We talk some about our view on how some things are going to hell in a handbasket and how both corporations and the media have a hand in it. They fess’ up about the rough road the raw diet has been and their struggles with that .  Oh and possibly some other stuff.

 Our podcast of the week this week is THE MAGICAL EARTH. A podcast that Fox quite enjoys featuring Cliff, Susan, Jancithe (did that get spelled right?) and Alex (I’m so sorry I forgot during the show, I’ve tried to set it right by getting it right for the shownotes). You can find them at    Themagicalearth.blogspot.com        Drop them a line and say Hi.

Also at the end of the show, after receiving an e-mail that seemed a bit……………… snarky?!? (honestly I just wasn’t really sure of how to take it and felt a bit hurt somehow by the flavor of it) Fox waxes on again about some of the reasons and feelings behind what the show is about and why we’re doing it. Tolerance, acceptance, and love.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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,,,,, or On Being Dressed To Kill. He he he,,, On this show Arrowind and Fox talk about thier views on costumery and dressing up in the Pagan community. They talk about some of thier favorite styles of dress and costumes and discuss some of the reactions they’ve encountered in the world at large. We share a few thoughts on how both elaborate and simple costumes lend to the mind sets of sucsessful pagan pagentry and its effects.

Drop us a line if you can. Trust me I know how it is. Everyone is just busier than all get out. Work’s rough, the house needs tons of attention,,,,,,, ect. ect. I know.  Well we do what we can.  Drop us a review at i-Tunes if you get us there and have the time. We’d truly appreciate it.  And please, pass us along to a friend or two or three. Help us build up the PPOTE community and feel free to comment to the Myspace page. Like I said “I know it’s been really rough out there.” Please everybody take care of yourselves and if you’ve got it in you, lend a friend a hand.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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Arrowind and Foxfire discuss some of thier definitions of deity, the larger concepts surrounding the Gods and Godess in the interpretations of the spiritual paths they’re walking, and some of the ideas on why we’re here (in the cosmic sense that is). This is another of those big idea conversations that are not neccessarily done justice in thirty minutes but we have some fun with it anyways.

 Where is everybody? We haven’t gotten much in the way of e-mails lately and would love some contact. Drop us a review at i-Tunes or Podcast Pickle so that we can climb the heights.       We love you all and love hearing from you. Take care and have a good week.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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After a month of sickness Arrowind and Fox are back. In this episode we explore our understandings of faith and belief and how these concepts interact with the ways we express our spiritual and magical systems. The conversation drifts around a little and we’re both still a bit under the weather so there is some sniffling and coughing noises in the track. Sorry. Thanks for waiting so patiently and a thank you to Stormphoenix for the several shoutouts.

You can contact us at paganparentsote@aol.com or paganparentsote@gmail.com and you can find us at pPodbean and Myspace. If yo’ve found us at i-Tunes drop us a nice review. We’d really appreciate it. Hopefuly the plague is gone and we’re back on schedule. Everyone take care.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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Well a number of folks have asked about it and here it is. Despite our struggle with the whole idea of “self promotion” we’ve finally recorded a promo. I want say a special thanks to Ariel at The Druidic Craft of the Wise for the kind words that put the issue into a better kind of perspective for us. Thank you. To anyone who finds this, please feel free to use it. Drop us a line and we’ll try and record a bumper for you as well.

Blessed Be

Foxfire

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