Goddessing: A Goddess / Pagan Blog

cosmology, consciousness, contrariness: the down to earth musings of a Goddess Mystic

If you landed here while looking for the international goddess research newspaper, Goddessing aka Goddessing Regenerated and Goddess Network News), please let me direct you to it. My blog has no affiliation, other than affinity, with this fabulous publication.

About Me

I have come to call myself Sage Starwalker, a name that's both a mouthful and a challenge to live up to, but when you ask for a name, and the Goddess gives you one .... I started the Goddess Mystic web site as a record of my early priestess studies. I'm in my last year of Temple of Diana's Spiral Door program. I'm an eternal student and have no plans to change that. I've accepted the identifier "disabled," but fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis haven't completely stopped me. I have a home-based web design business. My ministry consists of publishing MatriFocus Cross-Quarterly (a zine); developing Matrifocus [dot] Net to bring voices of the Goddess Movement to the blogosphere; teaching; peer counseling; dream interpretation; performing rites of passage and doing divination work for community members; Saturn and Chiron Return chart casting and interpretation; and web activism. My personal practice consists of contemplative arts and natural magic within Goddess, Pagan, Women's Mysteries, and Dianic Wiccan frameworks. I'm a member of the Goddess Scholars Group, the Conflict Transformation Group, and Womonsong. I'm looking to find more time for crochet, beading, and other art-making. Want to know more? Read 100 Things About Me

What is Goddessing?

Goddessing is a recent contribution to Goddess vocabulary, following on from Mary Daly's suggestion that Deity is too dynamic, too much in process, changing continually, to be a noun, and should better be spoken as a Verb (following Buckminster Fuller's "God is a verb"). We can refer to goddessing meaning Goddess culture, Goddess way of life, Goddess practice, or 'my goddessing' as in my individual interpretation and experience of Goddess. (Wikipedia)
See also:

Home

About Me

Site Feed

Search My Site

Reciprocating Blogs

What is Goddessing?

Blogs, Sites, Resources

Currency

1. There Is No Crisis

Rolling Stone Magazine, Business Week, New York Times, Time Magazine, "the most pessimistic economists" and so many more all agree: There is no Social Security Crisis. Here are a few snippets from quotes on the site:

"Fact is, There Is No Crisis," said Markos Moulitsas. "And there is no projected crisis anytime in the near future. Or far future."

and

"The Bush administration is using strategic lies to scare people into supporting a phase-out of Social Security. They are telling the public that there is a "crisis" and that Social Security is going "bankrupt." This is a lie," wrote Dave Johnson. "This is a strategic lie designed to lead the public down a path toward accepting their phase-out plan."

and

From the Dean of the London Business School: "To defuse the crisis hype it is useful to begin with a few facts. First, Social Security is a significant source of income for elderly Americans, providing the majority of income for two-thirds of elderly beneficiaries and all of the income for 20% of them. Second, according to the most recent report by the Trustees of Social Security, even under the cautious assumption that the U.S. economy grows at the anemic rate of 1.6% a year, the revenues into Social Security from the current level of payroll taxes will cover promised benefits for another 38 years and will be enough to finance about 70% of benefits through 2078."

and

"The only crisis is a manufactured crisis by the White House."

2. Not One Damn Dime Day

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" [today!] those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.

My friend R.. doubts it will make any difference, and Snope's agrees:

All that aside, the suggested scheme is one of the least effective forms of symbolic protest one could devise: it literally proposes that people do nothing, and doing nothing generates little, if any, publicity or news coverage.

3. Choose the Blue!

You know what party a politician supports. Do you know how much support a corporation* (through its connected political action committee) and its employees (through their political contributions) put behind a political party, its candidates, and its causes?

Gasoline
Shell Oil -- 54% of combined contributions to Democrats, 46% to Republicans
Auto Insurance
Progressive Insurance -- 91% to Democrats, 9% to Republicans
Metropolitan Life -- 52% to Democrats, 48% to Republicans
(Oh Great Goddess! We have State Farm Insurance for house and car, and this is their split: 19% to Democrats, 81% to Republicans. Guess that's going to have to change. I never heard of Progressive Insurance before....)
Fast Food
Arby's -- 100% to Democrats, 0% to Republicans

Hundred of categories and sub-categories, and more than a thousand companies are covered, from makeup to airlines to telephone/internet services. The huge percentage of businesses that support Republican values is ~~depressing~~ overwhelming, but there are blue lights in almost all categories (forget convenience stores, though) and this is a great resource for those of us who are trying to vote our values with our dollars, so Follow the Money!

4. Bread Crumbs

Our squirrels got lots of bread crumbs this morning. Squirrels play hard in the snow! (I'm guessing the birds will get some grain, too, and if anything is left after dark, no telling who will come by scrounging.)

Permalink posted by Sage -- 11:21 AM.

Haloscan: . Blogger: .

Comments: Thank you for the heads up on Choose the Blue.
THis is definitely useful info. Island Dave and I will definitely look into Progessive Ins.They've been in NC for the past several years now, and they seem to have a great reputation in customer service.

# posted by Island Tiffiney : 1:45 AM

# posted by Sage : 10:21 AM