Pagan Values Month

Yes, June is pagan values month and I've promised to write on the topic here.  And, if this were February, coming off a high energy conference with my spiritual life firing on all cylinders, this would have been easy.  But doubt, that worm has found a way into psyche.  It is a holy worm, since a pagan faith without doubt is not a pagan faith at all - at least for me.  So the struggle to get clear may actually improve the end product.  They say that vines have to struggle to produce good grapes for wine - we'll see if this follows the same paradigm.

So, I could take this essay (which will come out on Livejournal) a number of different ways. I believe fairly strongly that the core pagan value is direct relationship to Spirit(s) in all their manifestations.  And that a corollary to that relationship is the foundation belief that individuals must not be constrained as they pursue these relationships.  I could also take it another related way in that pagans are co-workers for good in the world - or at least most of us.  That because our Gods are not all-powerful, they work through us to accomplish their aims in this world and that when our will and Their's coincides magic happens.

Another route would be the willingness to sacrifice.  Actually, first the willingness to understand what sacrifice is and then being willing to do it to create good in the world.  Or, perhaps "good" is not what I mean, but "Green"  the planetary life force that brings new growth and restores the world.

Somehow, I think Pax had a different idea than any of the above.  At the moment, I'm thinking that Green has the strongest draw for me backed up by relationship.  More noodling as time goes by.