Ketzirah (Carly) קצירה on July 25th, 2010

At the Becoming 2010 Membership Retreat we made prayer beads. Thankfully, I knew we were doing this in advance, so I had time to think about what I wanted to do. I’ve thought about doing prayer beads before, but never actually done it. I’ve considered making prayer beads of the whole morning prayer service, or [...]

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Ketzirah (Carly) קצירה on July 18th, 2010

It may sound odd, but I’ve always had a problem being in a niche.  Even though everything I do seems to be a niche-focus.   Every time someone has said that I should choose, I’ve said, “no!”  My work with the concept of sustainable spirituality is one of the ways I’ve tried to work with this.  [...]

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Ketzirah (Carly) קצירה on February 13th, 2010

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the elements lately, so I wanted to post this work in progress.  A while back I had the opportunity to take “Elements of Magick” with Katrina Messenger.  The class is a core one for the Reclaiming tradition, and while I’m not trying to return to the world [...]

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Ketzirah (Carly) קצירה on January 27th, 2010

In a previous post, I began talking about the four elements of a sustainable spiritual practice — at least from my perspective.  I believe that these do work across any tradition, at least in concept. It’s important to understand that my system is based, like most, on the foundations of others. So to understand one, [...]

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Ketzirah (Carly) קצירה on January 17th, 2010

As I work to introduce my version of Sustainable Spirituality to the world, I’m trying to also better incorporate it into my own life. A big part is looking at what I’m working on and ensuring that there’s not too much in anyone area. Balance and rotation are really important. Last year, I focused way [...]

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