l'shana tovah.

[starfrosting]

Clearly I don't know the Hebrew calendar. Turns out that Rosh Hashanah falls in the seventh month- new year in the seventh month, with resonances with the whole idea of shabbat-as-the-seventh day...This new year is about turning inward and casting out, banishing the sticky shit that's clung for too long and folding inward. It fits really well with certain goddess-tradition interpretations of Samhain, which is awesome for me of course. A whole season of casting off the old year and preparing for the birth of the new. Interestingly, the first month of the Hebrew calendar is the one with Pesach in it. Probably the calendar, in addition to being lunar, is based on harvests. I really need to research this. My metaproject may very well be magickal nondualistic interpretations of Jewish mysticism and its earth-based traditions...see if I can incorporate some gender analysis in there along the Tree of Life as well...Oh g-d there is too much to learn.

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[violinvixen2.livejournal.com]

nerd.









happy new year.

don't deny it cos it's true.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

hey you. l'shana tovah.
i'm going to ignore yr bitchy comment ;) and tell you that my friend Mark Byon approached me today about radical queer organizing...he'd heard evidently that i'd tried to start something. Should we try again? I'm just really concerned as to how we can do radical queer action, as college students, and make it effective and antiracist and invigorating. It's not like we can all just schlep to the city and latch on to Queerfist.

And what's going on w/action for genderneutral housing?

xo Olivia.

[ireland-forever.livejournal.com]

Will you be celebrating any sort of Pagan/Wiccan/Jewish Sabbat? I'd be interested to know how you'd put together the ritual.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's an interesting question. One time on Samhain I sorta had this amazing experience w/my great-grandmother, who was Jewish. I'm sorta obsessed (when I bother to think about it) with reconceptualizing "God" from a tradition of Jewish ritual and ethics with Pagan concepts of immanent divinity, earth-as-organism, Goddess myths and immediate-experiences-of-Goddess...anyway, I'm too tired to focus. We can talk about this later.

[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

But I thought Sukkot was the harvest holiday?

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

It is. But there must have been weird calendar ways of marking when harvests come in, when they're stored, sold, etc---I don't know. I need research, Keren! Or, you know, a solid background in my own Judaic history. Whichever ;).