The Pagan Heart
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August-September 2005 Issue
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From the Desk of
Welcome to another issue - the Equinox edition. The issue about balance. It's interesting how life works - sitting here pondering the theme of this issue, and the spiritual aspects of this festival as I decide what to write, I notice some of the submitted material. A memory of coming out as a Pagan, the offerings of a Warrior as he walks his difficult path, discussions on life and death. Balance making itself evident in what has trickled into the magazine this month. Even the simple increase in male writers. Then I look outside this tiny sphere. Beyond the magazine to the world and what I see is imbalance. The hurricane in the States, the war in Iraq, the bombing in Britain, the deaths in so many places. Where is the balance here? Where is the joy to offset the pain? I have been pondering this for some time and I came to the conclusion that the balance is there, right before us. I just didn't see it before. Balance surrounds us at all times, even when it seems we are most out of synch - how often is our imbalance made psychologically worse by seeing someone else's good fortune? Or our celebration marred by the knowledge someone else lost out? Unconcerned with our feelings, nature corrects the scales anyway that works. And that's what I have come to see in all this. Nature doesn't care about human emotion since emotion is not a part of nature's scale. Life and death. Full and empty. Hot and cold. These are the things nature concerns herself with. We live in a world filled with imbalance of a human nature - overpopulated and stretched thin, we force nature to conform to our distorted view of what is right. But nature is an inexorable force that will not be dammed, or deflected, or halted, or permanently forced out of her path. I had forgotten the truth of existence - that night is mated to day, death to life, evil to good. Without one there cannot be the other. Our world is filled with so much human life that an accounting has to be made. And so we are seeing it. Balance - in its joy and its sorrow - is inescapable. May the gods bless those who have died over the last year, comfort those left in sorrow and pain, and help us find our way back to balance. In light and love,
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