Pax has invited Pagan bloggers to write about Pagan Values.

In June the sun is at it’s height in the Northern Hemisphere and nearly hidden from view in the Southern Hemisphere.  Midsummer and Yule, festivals of fire and of light. Let us then use our hearts and minds and words, invoking the fires of inspiration; let us write of the virtues and ethics and morals and values we have found in our Pagan paths, let us share how we carry these precious things forward in our own lives and out into the world. Join me, in the month of June 2009 in writing about Pagan values.

Source June 2009 as International Pagan Values Blogging Month

The morals and ethics espoused and lived by divergent Pagan individuals, groups and communities today are constructed on the same virtues valued by our collective ancestors, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or culture. Life is precious and must be preserved.

Despite our differences in belief and practice and in spite of the absence of any single unifying pagan theology or philosophy we Pagans share by default the same values treasured by every preceding generation. We all aspire to love and to caring for those we love.

Pagans everywhere share the desire to acquire and preserve individual and collective liberty. We jealously treasure our right to freedom of belief, religion, conscience and speech.

The quests for life, love and liberty lie at the heart of Pagan and neo-Pagan debates on origin, identity, definition, determination and authenticity. They challenge those to the left, centre and right of all political and religious dialogue, encouraging agreement and fueling disagreement.

Pagan values are human values. Collective human values such as equality, truth and justice inform our virtues and define the context within which we exercise our morals and ethics. Our compassion toward others (equality), our willingness to cooperate for mutual benefit (truth) and our generosity of spirit in permitting difference (justice), are among the common virtues that maintain the generation and survival of every species on our planet.

May the approaching fires of the Winter solstice and sunrise in the southern hemisphere and of the Summer Solstice in the north, beckon to the hearts and minds of every Pagan, whether reconstructionist or syncretic eclectic, to honour in remembrance the virtues of life, love, liberty, equality, truth and justice.