Reflections From a Murky Pond

I’m Pagan and I celebrate Christmas. I also celebrate Yule. To my mind there’s no inherent conflict in this. Yule is my religious holiday and Christmas is my American holiday and is largely secular in nature.

Perhaps this should be of some concern to Christians, a wee bit more so than arguments about “Happy Holidays” vs. “Merry Christmas.”

After all, the customs, trappings, and imagery of an American Christmas: Santa, Frosty The Snow Man, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Christmas Trees and decorations, and so very many others have nothing to do with Missa Christi aka Crīstesmæsse aka Christ’s Mass.

I think that “the war on Christmas” is one that Christians have already largely lost and that the current trend towards anti-theism and anti-Christianity is just a mopping up operation, the Christians, by and large, having already ceded the field.

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Both Lammas and Mabon are past, the first and second harvests have been reaped, and Autumn is fully upon us here in the north. Now we’ve entered my favorite time of year.

While each season has its place and its own special beauty, Autumn is, to me at least, the most delicious of times.

The cool air, warm colors, and the sense that all of nature is making ready to turn inward towards the hearth to rest and enjoy the bounty of the harvest all combine to make this a joyful time.

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We Pagans and Heathens know that our world is full of auguries, harbingers, portents, omens, and signs from the Gods foreshadowing what fates and dooms awaits us. Some of these portents are subtle and easy to miss, and others are glaringly obvious for all to see.

People just need to open their eyes, ears, and minds to the winds of fate if they would be better prepared to meet their futures.

One of those omens, and not a pleasant one for Obama or his followers, was recently seen:

PHILADELPHIA, July 4 (UPI) — The U.S. Secret Service said the magnetic presidential seal from the side of President Obama’s limousine fell off en route to the airport in Pennsylvania.

The Secret Service said the seal spent the night at the side of Interstate 76 when it fell from the side of Obama’s limo Thursday night and police and Secret Service agents were unable to locate it that night, CNN reported Monday.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said a Philadelphia police officer who was a part of the Thursday motorcade found the seal at the side of the road Friday.

Of course not everything that happens has some deeper meaning; many things are merely random events, having no more meaning than the observer grants them.

Yet, if one has been installed as the POTUS and one has promised to “fundamentally change” America, one should probably pay close heed to such things as the presidential seal falling off one’s limousine as one makes a 4th of July weekend campaign stop in Philadelphia, PA, the birthplace of America’s freedom and the cradle from which that nation that one wants to alter grew.

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