Auteursarchieven: Morgana

Over Morgana

"Morgana is Anglo/Dutch and lives in the Netherlands. She is a practising Gardnerian HPS. Over the years, she has facilitated a variety of Wiccan groups. She is co-editor of the international and bilingual "Wiccan Rede" magazine, which was launched in 1980 and is coordinator of Silver Circle, a Wiccan network in the Netherlands. As International Coordinator for PFI she travels extensively giving talks and workshops about Wicca and Paganism."

CD review: Irfan: The Eternal Return

Geplaatst op 27 november, 2015 door Morgana

Irfan uses ethereal and mystic female vocals in addition with strong male vocals and choirs in combination with an assortment of various traditional and medieval string, wind and percussive instruments. Lees verder →

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Paganism as a cultural phenomenon in Europe

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2015 door Morgana

People have difficulties in defining religion. It is even more difficult to define a pagan religion. The very term paganism is also very unclear. Morgana wrote a paper discussing paganism as a cultural phenomenon. Lees verder →

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Review: Celebrating Planet Earth

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2015 door Morgana

In this book some of the ‘urban myths’ are dispelled between (neo) pagans and Christians. Discussed are major attributes of both paths and how we perceive each other. Can Christians and Pagans engage in shared ritual? An ‘interfaith experiment’ suggests they can. Lees verder →

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The Dames from Thorn … and Amsterdam

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2015 door Morgana

The ‘Beguines’ were the ‘free women’ of Northern Europe. They lived, among other places, in Amsterdam and in the city of Thorn in the province of Limburg. Lees verder →

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Review: Spirits of the Sacred Grove

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2015 door Morgana

Following the Wheel of the Year, she starts with ‘Samhain: the year begins in the dark north-west’. Telling the story, her story, the year unfolds. Interspersed with her own thoughts Emma philosophises over Druid cosmology, spirituality… and much more. Lees verder →

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Review: All Acts of Love and Pleasure

Geplaatst op 5 mei, 2015 door Morgana

This book wants “to act as a guide to existing initiatory covens who want to make their practice more inclusive… Inclusive Wicca is about including all participants regardless of sexual orientation, disability, or other differences, not by erasing or ignoring the distinctions but working with them.” Lees verder →

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The Collective Individual

Geplaatst op 2 mei, 2015 door Morgana

Two major paradoxes in Wicca are that it strives towards a ‘group’ feeling when it is basically a path of individual development, and that it is supposedly concerned with a mystical (read esoteric) path when many aspects seem to be becoming exoteric and public. Lees verder →

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Tales of Anatolia – from Ankara to Hattuşa and the Hittites – part 2

Geplaatst op 28 februari, 2015 door Morgana

In part 2 Morgana will be looking at the Hittite capital of Hattuşa in greater detail. Lees verder →

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The Significance of Martinmas/ St. Martin/ Sint Maarten and 11 November

Geplaatst op 1 november, 2014 door Morgana

So who was St. Martin, Sint Maarten? Were similar rites as in Ireland performed in other countries? Why was the goose designated as the sacrificial bird? To come nearer to home we only have to look at the patron saint of Utrecht to find out more. Lees verder →

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The Underworld

Geplaatst op 1 november, 2014 door Morgana

Hallowe’en is the turning point, the ‘bringing back to the essence’, at which we celebrate the dying of the old year and the conception of the new year, or the reaffirmation of life. It involves the descent into the Underworld. In virtually all the mythologies there is an underworld, a place in which we are often judged and purified and after a period of rest, resurrected. Lees verder →

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