September 7, 2016

Paganism is a Eurocentric thing. Non-european indigenous religions seem to prefer not to be called Pagan, a pejorative word that has been used against them for centuries. If you were to draw a diagram of pagan traditions, organizations, people and movements on which you placed these, prioritizing them by research and scholarship so that groups who value these things fall toward the center; you’d see that those who are getting closest to the moments before Christianity rolled in are the reconstructionists. Read more

September 6, 2016

Labels are always a fun game to play in Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenry, what-have-you. Within the context of Heathenry I have toyed for a couple years now with the label of Álfatrú for myself as a more precise descriptor of my belief system Read more

September 5, 2016

It shouldn't surprise me; nobody gets out of here alive, as they say. But death isn't something I expect, not when meeting and working with people my own age. Read more

September 3, 2016

The “All Father” is a figure found in many Pantheons. From Zeus to Odin, from Ra to Yahweh, father gods play an important role in mythology. The Irish Dagda, the father god of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, is no exception. Read more

September 2, 2016

I made other magickal tools, and gave up on scrying as an object of desire... Until I went to Starwood 2016. Read more

September 1, 2016

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, here on Agora! There’s an interesting debate that I’ve seen drifting about the edges of the Heathen community for years, and (interestingly) it’s one of the only topics that I’ve ever seen debated more often in person than in the general Heathen “Blog’o’sphere”. Did the ancient Heathens have some concept of a “spirit guide” or “totem animal?” I’ve met plenty of Heathens who are perfectly happy to tell you... Read more

August 31, 2016

No matter what you do in Heathenry, you're doing it wrong. Heathen practice is wide and varied, and in many ways, we're feeling our way along and trying to figure out what works for us as individuals and as groups. It's a natural evolution for a religious practice, but it's not without its struggles and pitfalls. Read more

August 29, 2016

We know that many ancient cultures had initiatory Mysteries of some sort or another, and we know that we can't bring them back. What's a reconstructionist to do? Read more

August 28, 2016

I have been working with Mercury - also known as Mercurius - since 2008. His facets are many and one of the greatest challenges in my search for Mercury has been his syncretism with Hermes. Read more

August 27, 2016

Hansel and Gretel are lost in the woods and leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home. So too we find our way home to a life of soul, one spiritual crumb and lessons at a time. Read more


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