Understand that you're not getting rid of anything; no part of you is bad, wrong, broken, or unnecessary. You're just taking something that had solidified into a pattern that no longer serves you, changing it back into a state that is accessible and fluid, and re-integrating it. Read more
This article discusses one of the most controversial figures in Norse Cosmology: Loki. In contemporary Heathenry, there is no middle ground where He is concerned: He is either hated or loved. In the following multi-part essay, Heathen author and academic Galina Krasskova discusses some of the reasons why this is so. Part I examines Loki's role in the surviving lore. Read more
The other day I went with a friend to visit her great-granddaughter, a little girl of only two and a half, called Amber. We went to take a crystal healing bracelet to aid her in her continued recovery from stomach cancer, which thanks to the Goddess appears to be completely successful. It was my first visit to the little family, a Mother, three teenage daughters, and one child, living on a remote hill top in Mid Wales. Before leaving I... Read more
“Vegas loves a man with a system and so does God. All these monks running numbers for enlightenment’s jackpot. God cracks open the universe during the third rainshower of May to all white Paravans. Count your prayers on plastic beads while God & I cash in.” -S. Foster Is your religious practice a system to beat the odds, or a deeper quest for meaning? While orthopraxy frees us from dogmatism of the soul, it can chain us to rigid systems... Read more
I love the laid-back sunny vibe of Sunday! I’m doing something cheesy to eggs and getting some housework out of the way so I can enjoy my Myth and Symbolism class this afternoon. Here are a few Pagan things that are keeping my groovy and full of joie de vivre! 1. New Darker Shade of Pagan Podcast Bjork and Dead Can Dance fit the post-thunderstorm mystical atmosphere of my house this morning. Like a deep-tissue massage for your soul and... Read more
“What would give light must endure burning.” – Victor Frankl As I was saying, there’s a historical conflation between witches and fairies. There’s also a long-established relationship between the Otherworld and artists. You could make a case that this relationship goes back as far as our species; one of the things that marked the shift to modern humans was a sudden outpouring of art. The cave paintings of Europe are one example of a world-wide phenomenon. That art also was... Read more
I shouldn’t be blogging on my laptop. A monstrously magnificent thunderstorm is roaring in the heavens above. I’ve got all the windows open and Madonna’s “Ray Of Light” album blasting. I’m full of energy and hope and possibility. I love storms. The primal power of storms always awakens the immanent divinity within me. I feel relaxed, sensual, grateful and very aware of my own life force. While most people are hiding out, taking cover and waiting out the storm I... Read more
British Traditional Witchcraft (BTW) is “Orthopraxic.” What that means is that it’s not what we believe that counts, it’s what we do. In fact, what we believe varies widely. I’ve met witches who consider the gods to be thoughtforms, like Dream and Death and their siblings in the Sandman comics. Some witches are atheists, who think that modern science will eventually discover why witchcraft works. Some witches belief in a specific pantheon of gods, like Hindu or Egyptian. There is... Read more
Sometimes, when I start talking about F(a)er(i/y), someone will look confused* and ask, “What does that have to do with fairies?” Nothing. Everything. There is historically a conflation between witches and fairies. One of the offenses which could get you burned at the stake back a few hundred years ago was “consorting with fairies;” quite often the women (and men, but it was more often women who were actually tried and convicted) under questioning would describe encounters with the “Queen... Read more
I guess I’ve reached the boiling point because this is a day when we honor our dead – Hekate’s Deipnon. When vengeful spirits roam the dark looking for those who have caused them harm. A night to purify our homes and minds of any offenses against the Gods that we may have committed knowingly or unknowingly. Dusk offerings of eggs and onions and incense ashes swept from our altars set out at crossroads. So I shouldn’t be surprised at the... Read more
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