{"id":4601,"date":"2012-09-18T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2012-09-18T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:07:48","slug":"two-sort-of-kind-of-related-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4601","title":{"rendered":"Three Related Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Deborah Castellano, who also blogs at Charmed, I’m Sure<\/em><\/a>: “The Art of Career Occultism<\/a>.”‘<\/p>\n

Let me ask you, how do you see a career occultist? \u00a0Do you see her as someone who gets up and does sun\u00a0salutations, writing in her dream diary over herbal tea and an organic scone, sauntering through a field with an animal companion as she\u00a0chooses\u00a0herbs to harvest while wearing something fabulous and floaty, coming home to her gorgeous dedicated workshop for afternoon sketching for new designs? \u00a0Because . . .if so, you’re going to be greatly disappointed as to what’s actually the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Heather Awen at Adventures in Animism<\/em>: “Dancing in the Ashes of the New Age<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

A friend recently said to me that she’s going to go for it and do some really hard things to make her dreams of working to improve children’s lives a reality. She said that she had to believe the Goddess would provide for her. I used to believe that. I want to believe that, but I don’t anymore. I asked her to explain this, not to be a bitch, but because I was hoping she’d be able to convince me that the Goddess works this way. . . . .\u00a0 How did the Goddess decide who to provide for? So why should I trust that “we always get what we need” when clearly the facts say that we don’t?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both are about facing some facts of mundane life and a balance between willing, affirming, etc., and actually doing.<\/em><\/p>\n

At Pantheon<\/em>, Star Foster is talking about an ancient philosopher who could help sort these questions out: Epictetus.<\/a><\/p>\n

So as I sit here worrying How am I to live?<\/em> and How do I cope with this huge change in my life?<\/em> I am finding my answers in Epictetus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He lived from 55-135 CE. He was at first a slave<\/a> \u2014 an educated slave, as some were, but still a slave. That ought to give him a certain amount of street cred, don’t you think, when it comes to knowing what you can change and what you cannot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Deborah Castellano, who also blogs at Charmed, I’m Sure: “The Art of Career Occultism.”‘ Let me ask you, how do you see a career occultist? \u00a0Do you see her as someone who gets up and does sun\u00a0salutations, writing in her dream diary over herbal tea and an organic scone, sauntering through a field with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,39,5,90],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-occultism","tag-paganism","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1cd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4212,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4212","url_meta":{"origin":4601,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Pizza for May 15, 2012","author":"Chas S. 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