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January 2019

January 08, 2019
Building a Devotional Practice with the Sea, complete with description and an example devotional prayer....
January 01, 2019
Beliefs The Indo-Europeans and their descendants were patriarchal. I don’t think there ever was a...

December 2018

December 16, 2018
The Celtic year is divided into two halves. Summer and Winter. The former is a...

November 2018

November 21, 2018
When approaching the land as the object of a devotional practice, one should not focus...

October 2018

October 25, 2018
Reconstructionism is a methodology, not a religion. My religion is Celtic or Gaelic Paganism. We may...
October 05, 2018
Pagan groups can be whatever you want them to be. The angle of what we...

September 2018

September 26, 2018
Samhain is a magical time. I hope to honor it so I try to build...
September 25, 2018
" Extremely little. The total of evidence we have for the druids could probably fit...

August 2018

August 29, 2018
Edit: I coincidentally was writing this the day my mom asked me not to wear a...
August 29, 2018
There's not one worldview of the cosmos among ancient pagans. But, the first people to...
August 20, 2018
In what way can we tell how the ancients made offerings? Simply because their offering...
August 16, 2018
I believe in you. I believe in every reader. My faith that my words do...
August 09, 2018
Considering my Ancestors I have been thinking about the Ancestors lately and how exactly they...
August 09, 2018
A Prayer of Thanks for Victory In the presence of the finnóg, A calm comes...
August 08, 2018
Last post we opened the question of decolonization. I was going to put a bunch...

July 2018

July 26, 2018
Many people who claim to be drawn Celtic heritage have in fact internalized the colonizing...
July 23, 2018
I am proud to represent pagans, Gaels, and the LGBTQ+ communities at this year's PRIDE...
July 16, 2018
O Holy Ones, the land upholds me, the sea surrounds me, while the sky embraces...
July 09, 2018
This series is a series on my mystical experiences in indo-european polytheism. I cataloge the...
July 06, 2018
This series is a series on my mystical experiences in indo-european polytheism. I cataloge the...
July 05, 2018
This series is a series on my mystical experiences in indo-european polytheism. I cataloge the...
July 04, 2018
This series is a series on my mystical experiences in indo-european polytheism. I cataloge the...

June 2018

June 18, 2018
Continued from last post. The Hero Priest is an ideal I use to aspire to...

May 2018

May 15, 2018
In the last article in this series, we visited the reasons why we have clergy. Clergy...

April 2018

April 03, 2018
Everyone who practices the old ways does so in a modern context. Not all contexts...

March 2018

March 23, 2018
Short Answer: No Long Answer: Yes The Gods are immortal. This much is clear from...
March 15, 2018
Don't be a romantic thinker, be an enchanted big thinker. There is a big difference....
March 09, 2018
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a...
March 02, 2018
Indo-European mythology is full of gatekeepers, psychopomps, and sacrificers. There is one in every pantheon.

February 2018

February 22, 2018
First Gods Which gods to call and in what order to call them is often...
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