The other day my wife bought a new book for me, this book was titled "Sacred Paths for Modern Men" by Dagonet Dewr.
I had only gotten into the first few chapters of this book when I put it down and glanced over at my "Pagan" book shelf. I looked very hard through the 105+ books that I own for those books specifically for Pagan Men. What I came up with was three books; "The Pagan Man: Priests, Warriors, Hunters, and Drummers" by Isaac Bonewits, "Wicca Spellcraft for Men" by A.J. Drew, and the book I mentioned earlier.
All three of them are wonderful books and I fully suggest all of them. Especially the one by A.J. Drew as he is my favorite Pagan author for men at the moment. That and I have met him a few times at the Ohio and Kentucky Renaissance Fair and I have to say he is a great guy to talk to.
What got me thinking today is that I only have three books on the subject of Pagan men because that is all that I could find. I mean three books? Come on there has to be more then that right? Well I fired up FireFox and quickly went to www.Amazon.com to see what I could find. It seems I was wrong there are not just three books for Pagan men....there are actually four. It seems A.J. wrote another one titled "Wicca For Men: A Handbook for Male Pagans Seeking a Spiritual Path". Well, I guess that is a slight improvement over my last theory of only three books.
I decided that maybe I should do something. I once started to write a book about being a Pagan man and then stopped once Llewellyn and New Page both told me that it would not be a book of interest. You know what? I think they were wrong personally. I think more books for Pagan men would be a great idea. So even if I can not get them to publish me I will use www.LuLu.com to get myself published I suppose.
Either way, this blog is not about my adventures in writing a book for Pagan men. This blog is going to be my view on the modern Pagan society and my role in it as a male Pagan.
I hope someone finds this blog of some use and maybe some comfort when you think that your all alone being a Pagan man in a religion that seems to be 95% dominated and or occupied by women. Not that I don't like women, I am married for Lugh's sake, but I understand what it feels like to be a minority and then treated like its no big deal because I am still a white "privileged" man. All I have to say to that is "Yes, I am white, no I am not privileged....I'm middle class and unemployed."
-Blessed Be all,
Snow Wolf.
WolfOfTheSnow@GMail.com
