{"id":184,"date":"2009-08-29T23:42:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odinic-rite.org\/test\/?p=184"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:10:59","slug":"the-circle-of-ostara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/the-circle-of-ostara\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle of Ostara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All-Mother of the North has many names, and of these Ostara is the fairest &#8211; Ostara, the radiant Goddess of the Dawn, of Springtime. The Circle see her as a symbol of the spiritual re-birth of our Folk, a symbol of hope and resurgent new life.<\/p>\n<p>The Circle of Ostara is a Magical Order associated with (but not <em>officially<\/em> a part of) the Odinic Rite, together working to further the awakening of our people. The Circle itself has a long history, and has developed its own system of mystico\/magical practice. It has dedicated itself to three great tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The furtherance of Odinism, the organic spiritual expression of Northern Europe, as a living faith, relevant to the problems of existence which face us now, at this time of great change.<\/li>\n<li>The development of the &#8220;divine powers&#8221; which lie in each one of us, and which are the gifts of the Gods &#8211; not only physical and intellectual powers, but those psychic abilities that have for the past two millennia been distorted, damped down, and denied, by an alien ideology.<\/li>\n<li>The total rejection of the pseudo-religion of Judeo-Christianity and all the belief systems which have grown out of it. The Circle struggles against it, seeing it as a force of chaos and evil, inimical to all the forms of life which live upon the Earth, and works towards its replacement by a religion which has grown from the Folk-Soul of our Northern Peoples, an organic social system, and an Earth-attuned technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">For further information about the Circle of Ostara, you may contact the <a href=\"mailto:odinic-rite@odinic-rite.org\">Odinic Rite<\/a>. We will forward your request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please note that the Circle of Ostara are currently not accepting admissions or correspondence from the public.<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Circle of Ostara is a Magical Order associated with (but not officially a part of) the Odinic Rite, together working to further the awakening of our people. The Circle itself has a long history, and has developed its own system of mystico\/magical practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3617,2],"tags":[183,374,438,761,764,779,781,806],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circle-of-ostara","category-gods-goddesses-of-odinism","tag-circle","tag-folk","tag-goddess","tag-northern-europe","tag-northern-peoples","tag-odinic","tag-odinism","tag-ostara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}