Setting the Table: The Importance of Deity in Ritual
A little over a week ago I led my first public ritual in California, and received at lot of positive feedback from people I like and respect in my community. Most of the comments that I got ended up...
View ArticleDruid Thoughts: In Search of a Feminist Goddess
I should begin by explaining that I am not a Wiccan, but have had close contact with Wiccans and the wider pagan community for more than a decade. Wiccans and those who draw heavily on them for...
View ArticleDruid Thoughts: Is There Really a Devil?
I think the Devil is a way of putting outside of us all the things we don’t want to admit are part of being human. We kill and torture, rape and abuse. Once we admit that evil wears human faces, then...
View ArticleYes, and Gods, part 1 (with Cicero)
Recently a discussion of the nature of the Gods and how Pagans relate to them has broken out. The Pagans of antiquity had strangely similar debates; Cicero, for instance, states that there's such a...
View ArticleYes, and Gods, Part 2: To Be Human Is To Be Divine, But Not Necessarily Vice...
When I say that ritual is sometimes too focused on the people involved (and people, period) to its detriment, I am not talking about disdain for humanity. I'm more talking about the fact that we live...
View ArticleHeathen Woman: The Reality of Odin
In addition to being a war chief and considered king, Odin was also a leader, the harnesser of runes, a spiritual guide, and a traveler. Visualizing Odin as a multi-layered deity is the first step in...
View ArticleWayfaring Woman: Managing Multiple Deity Relationships
All relationships can be complicated, and human to divine relationships are no different. Deepening a spirituality and developing my practice requires that we think through the relationships that we...
View ArticleLamp & Labyrinth: Conceptualizing a Multitude of Spirits
A bit of information is a bit of consciousness, and that is a god. That is a spirit. Any enduring process with cycles is a spirit.
View ArticleThe Hearth of Hellenism: We Don’t have Relationships with the Gods, or Do We?
How do we serve the Gods? Socrates’ view is that we can serve the Gods by being helpful or assisting them. We help to fulfill undertakings which benefit humankind. Our relation with the Gods is how we...
View ArticleHearth of Hellenism: When the Gods Make Contact
When I dream of a God, somehow in the waking world I receive confirmation. They appear in a dream and then appear in real life through something physical.
View ArticleMillennial Witch: Working With Technology (& The Gods to Call for Help With It)
What deities are there to turn to when dealing with technological issues?
View ArticlePan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Mabon is a God
Mabon/Maponos is a deity. In my book that makes Him both important and worthy of a certain reverence or respect.
View ArticleHearth of Hellenism: How Are We Equals with the Gods?
Our equality with the Gods is possible through a friendship that is based on fundamental cosmological relationship. Humanity has divine origins.
View ArticlePan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Finding Your Patron Deity
Getting into a relationship with a deity is a bit like getting into a relationship with a human. There may be parent figures, pals, people you bump into occasionally, and significant others. There may...
View ArticlePhoenix Rising: Stranger At the Party
I stood there, brought to tears by something I couldn’t explain. Surely, it must simply be my reaction to the beauty of the temple, right? After all, what could I possibly have in common with Hephaestus?
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