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September 2019

September 11, 2019
At the end of the pagan era, the household spirits seem to have dethroned the...
September 07, 2019
The beauty of the Core Order is that it suggests an order, but other steps...

August 2019

August 12, 2019
What can the Ancestors bring to our lives and our practice? How do we build...

July 2019

July 11, 2019
This is a simple overview of the most prevalent mythic symbols in Indo-European polytheism and...

April 2019

April 14, 2019
Reflection   It has taken me three weeks to write this blog. I have been...

March 2019

March 05, 2019
"The Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann" describes the four treasures in greater detail...

February 2019

February 24, 2019
Urban Earth Mother I discovered the Urban Earth Mother. She wasn't hiding. Heraclitus said "Nature...
February 21, 2019
What is the Buffet? The Buffet is a series of posts that is a smorgasbord of...
February 16, 2019
Building a Devotional Practice with the Sky Working with High Days is a wonderful thing,...

January 2019

January 10, 2019
We generally call a Celtic sacred space a 'nemeton'. Nemetona was a Gaulish goddess whose...
January 08, 2019
Michael Dangler says, “...the cosmos is divided into three parts. What these three parts are...
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...
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