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Pagan Restoration

Pagan Priesthood: Setting the Table, Restoring the Way of the Gods

Priesthood in the ancient world was a call to service and a coveted honor. The Priestfolk were responsible for maintaining the rhythm of society through worship and festival, nurturing the culture’s connection with the Gods. Pagan Priesthood is far from there, but we can rebuild…

Under the Ancient Oaks

The Three Centers of Paganism

There are three centers to the Pagan movement. How can someone who identifies with all three develop an integrated spiritual practice that honors the gods, cares for Nature, and refines the soul?

Agora

Druid Thoughts: What Really Happens When We Die?

As a Druid, I feel it is much better to try and understand the mysteries of life on its own terms, not with reference to a speculative hereafter. To be a Druid is to live this life well, honourably, deeply. Not by the rules of an ancient book, but by pragmatic standards, humanistic standards, reasoned out as best I am able.

Gateway Goddess

Seizing the Day with a Sumerian Brew

A Midwestern microbrewery is using a hymn to the Sumerian beer goddess to resurrect Her beer recipe.

Religio et Pietas

The Face of the Goddess

More than thirty years ago, I was introduced to a particular Goddess for the first time. Having completed a ritual, exhausted from dancing, I was sitting naked in a dark place looking into the coals as they began to die down. The fumes began to settle when that small chamber seemed to be filled with light and I felt a great energy rising up within me. Before me appeared a Lady, a Goddess, dressed in Light.

Daughters of Eve

My 30 Day Challenge: Week THREE of a Different Kind of Black History

How do we move forward in our spirits if we cannot heal the pain of the past, or even acknowledge it? This is a question I hope we continue to ask ourselves.

Wild Garden

Through the Brambles

Getting into interfaith work is not easy. Every time I was in front of a news camera or a crowd, saying that I'm a Pagan priestess and that I support religious freedom, I was afraid my eldest daughter would be harassed at school or I'd get a brick through my window.

Raise the Horns

The Pagan Sandbox

Modern Pagandom is a lot like a giant sandbox. There are some of us practicing Wiccan Rituals while eating cakes and sipping on wine. Another group consists of ladies singing songs of praise to the Great Goddess. Druids throw sacrifices into a fire and the Asatru honor their gods. There are lots of things going on in the Pagan Sandbox, and while we might not all agree on what game to play, most of us are willing to admit that we are in the same sandbox.

Dalliances with Deities

Four Gods: the Dierne

Though I call the Clarene my holy mother, and I am building a possession practice with the Laetha, the Dierne is the god I will laugh at and harass and make especially lewd jokes about. It helps that the Dierne is a sort of patron to lewd jokes, though.