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PagaNet News featured my article, Whatever Floats Your Boat: A Dianic Perspective on Polarity, Balance, and Gender, in its Imbolc 2000 issue. My article draws from major features of my cosmological musings and understandings, and addresses a topic that has tended to disenfranchise Dianic Wicca from mainstream Wicca and panpaganism alike. Some quotes:

Systems theory talks of complexity, of the dynamics that structure systems. From a systems perspective, balance and imbalance are points on a continuum, energies of fluctuation that support living systems, where order arises out of chaos, and chaos out of order, a living dance of energy in motion. A magical theory that values balance over other points on a continuum of fluctuation is a magical theory that may be truncated, that may miss the complexities of natural systems.

Balance is one of the major preoccupations of New Agers, and I have long been a relative lone wolf decrying this insistence on valuing one point of a continuum above all others...I have tried to find evidence within natural law for or against balance as a necessary part of magic...

... the spiral, one of the basic universal energy forms...found in many creation myths, describes the shape of galaxies and...protogalaxies. These spirals of stardust occur because of imbalance. 'A modern scientist…sees such protogalaxies as the natural result of imbalances and forces in the great cosmic energy field - a swirling of disorderly or chaotic matter into orderly or cosmic patterns….' (Sahtouris) The basic movement of matter is such that heavy and light atoms move away from each other, creating an imbalance in the distribution of matter that results in the spiral shape found in galaxies, whirlpools, tornadoes, hurricanes and DNA strands.