48 Adorations

April 9, 2013 By 5 Comments
Lost Green by *laverinne

Inspired by Sannion's 99 Adorations, which eventually caught on all across the wide web. Rather than doing 99 - since Sannion chose that number due to its sacredness to Dionysus - I chose to do 48 adorations to the Dierne, as four is a sacred number to him. I was attempting to write up an eloquent post about love, again, as I found myself answering a question about the religion I am crafting by saying that, "I fell in love [with the gods and spirits]." No words came, though, and I spent the … [Read more...]

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Briefly: Meaning

April 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
by Fernanda Suarez

Teo Bishop had a post a while ago about love in modern polytheism, and while it caught my eye I also didn't feel compelled at that time to think more of it. More recently, I stumbled upon another post by Teo - this time about myth, meaning, and application of that in our lives. I find myself at an interesting crossroads concerning the issue of meaning, as well as the meaning of love in the mythologies I'm writing. There is a whole category of myths that I write called the Romances because … [Read more...]

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here be dragons

April 6, 2013 By 7 Comments
Only If For A Night by Ejiwa A. Ebenebe

Today I was going to write a post about love in a religious context, but a quote caught my eye and redirected my thoughts. From Juniper: You refused to teach us the Mysteries without having to play by your rules and allow ourselves to be brow beaten. So we went and found them for ourselves, with blood and sweat and piss. Literally blood and sweat and piss.  A High Priestess once said to me that people don’t actually do that sort of stuff, spit into a cloth, or piss into jars or cut … [Read more...]

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Briefly: on Colors

April 5, 2013 By 2 Comments
Heart of a Fox by breathing2004

[As is necessary to note, all below is personal belief and experience journeying to the Otherworlds. The Red Court is a Court of faeries that I interact with and which I have not found connections to in fairy tales or to other known faeries.] Colors are a large part of my journey work. I always try to break down the colors I see, try to understand, try to grasp the nuances of why. Why do gold threads appear when I go to the Firebird? Why do diamonds and blue-white ice appear when I pray to … [Read more...]

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on Cursing

April 4, 2013 By 11 Comments
Sorceress by Sanchinko

I'm hoping this will be my only magically-focused post. I just am not focused on it and hope to move away from the magic-heavy (to the point of bowed knees) Paganism. But, something Drew Jacob wrote caught my attention. I want to say I like his project and think it is awesome, and you should go donate. I think people deserve to be paid if they do magic (and want to be paid), and most arguments about how it's 'immoral' to charge or demeans the 'sacredness' of magic don't hold water. And I … [Read more...]

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Briefly: On the ‘Universal’

April 3, 2013 By 6 Comments
Call of the sea by ~monotonelee

Sometimes I get so caught up in thinking and turning over ideas and doing yet feel I don't have anything to write about. That's not true - I have myths I could write, and we just got chickens at the home and I could talk about that, or how stressed I am because I'm supposed to make dinner tonight and am not sure how to handle household responsibilities and that doesn't reflect well on me, or I could rant. But none of those topics seem very useful, not for this venue (I'll probably be talking … [Read more...]

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Community Community Community

April 2, 2013 By 3 Comments
Contrary to what some say, you can coexist without giving up your individuality.

There have been a lot of posts about community lately, including a few that missed the mark entirely (and won't be linked to, as the level of vitriol contained in them is revolting and shouldn't be shared). I'll link to a few below, but they really are endless. I have a community. There are a people that I talk to everyday and hang out with and laugh with and share silly videos with, people who I can talk about the gods and spirits and worry over religious matters with. None of them follow … [Read more...]

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Happy Easter

March 31, 2013 By 3 Comments
Warrior, artist, and alien bunny? I'm sold.

Though I prayed and prayed and prayed, Jack Frost didn't visit and deliver snow on this Easter. Thankfully, one summer years ago snow did line the hills of this city, and that is a memory I treasure. Instead, this Easter is hot and dry and causing me to regret my clothing choices, but at least I'm no longer fool enough to wear black. Spring is in full swing, and summer is readying itself to pounce. I know that Easter is all about new beginnings, new life, and hope (if we go by what E. Aster … [Read more...]

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Four (More) Faeries

March 30, 2013 By 2 Comments
Great-tailed grackle

I’m going to attempt to write more connected posts, hopefully, and one part of that will be posting a small list of spirits near the end of each month. I know a lot of Pagans and polytheists who acknowledge, revere, or work with various house and land spirits, but the focus of many of our conversations seems to be on the gods. That isn’t necessarily bad, but most of my time I’m interacting more directly with spirits than I am with deities. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about how … [Read more...]

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Why I am a Polytheist

March 29, 2013 By 5 Comments
Stories are never just stories, besides.

[or, rather, Why I am a Polytheist who Worships New Gods] There's this little prompt here at Patheos to explain why we're part of the religion we are in under 200 words. So, I'm going to try not to be as wordy as I usually am while also describing why I'm a polytheist who worships new gods and some pop culture and geekish goodness. 4. There's lots of gods, dude. At least, for me there are. Not only that, but there's thousands of spirits and faeries and such to interact with. My world … [Read more...]

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