Your Inner Goddess is awake inside of you, anchoring you in the ways of the sacred feminine, and guiding your journey of soul at this time of the Summer Solstice. Read more
Your Inner Goddess is awake inside of you, anchoring you in the ways of the sacred feminine, and guiding your journey of soul at this time of the Summer Solstice. Read more
Religious and spiritual beliefs to not happen in a vacuum; they are always influences by how the culture in which they are grown. As a devotee of Freya and Freyr, for me this meant breaking away from my modern Western understanding of sex, love, and sexuality and digging into how the Vikings viewed these concepts instead. Read more
Whether you count its origins in the pastoral altars of Romantic poets, the channeled voice of the Night Sky herself speaking to a mad sorcerer in Egypt, or the stolen revelations of a secret witch-cult in England--or maybe you don't believe any of those stories--modern Paganism began in protest. It began with the voices of the heretics. Read more
Your local gods are other people's stories. The totally other people's stories. Read more
On midsummer - the holiday between Bealtaine's earthy celebrations and Lúnasa's harvesting - we celebrate the joy and growth of the light half of the year. We acknowledge, formally, what we live with everyday - the knowledge that the world we live in is shared by myriad spirits and is touched by the Gods. Read more
This time last year, I had a clear and focused plan for my writing, both fiction and nonfiction, but I'm definitely one of those creative types that gets thrown by distractions and interruptions. Read more
I am writing an entire occult-y blog post about washing dishes. Yes, washing dishes. By the end of this blog post, I promise you may even want to wash dishes. Read more
Upon entering the Craft, it is traditional, almost required, that one choose a new name. The taking of this new name symbolizes the death of the old personality and rebirth of the person. Read more
Is magick real? This is a question I am asked all the time, and to my ears it is a puzzle. Not the actual answer, but how the person gets to a point of asking it. You may as well ask if Science is real. Or Love. Read more
Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week here on Agora! Most of you readers here are familiar with my ongoing work over at Huginn’s Heathen Hof, but for those of you who aren’t super active on Facebook let’s just say it’s been a ludicrously busy few weeks! For example, HHH is now on Instagram, as well as Twitter. We’ve recently opened a whole new section on heathenhof.com devoted to Heathen book reviews, and... Read more
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