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December 2016

December 01, 2016

Wyrd Words: Challenging The Rhetoric

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays here on Agora! Recently...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

Wyrd Words: World Wide Heathenry – A Global Heathen Demographic Survey

Heathenry is an increasingly visible form of spirituality in the modern world yet not much...

October 2016

October 03, 2016

Seeking the Grail: Why Effective Ritual Is Important

Ritual facilitation is a professional skill set. If you learn the skills to make it...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Vision and Movement – Rising Above the Gossip

Rarely do we openly talk about power and exclusion, but we need to start having...

September 09, 2016

Happily Heathen: Dealing with Discrimination – What’s An Inclusive Heathen Supposed To Do?

I’ve been Heathen since 1999. In that time, I’ve been to a lot of Heathen...

September 07, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Who’s Responsible for Speaking Out Against the AFA

Paganism is a Eurocentric thing. Non-european indigenous religions seem to prefer not to be called...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

A Lakeside Hearth: Organized or Independent?

No matter what you do in Heathenry, you're doing it wrong. Heathen practice is wide...

August 17, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Reciprocity, Tit for Tat, and Vending Machine Religion

In my paganism and my personal practice, reciprocity is of utmost importance in thought and...

August 08, 2016

Star Made Witch: The Path of Wisdom from Personal Gnosis to Myth

When you have important wisdom to share with your spiritual community, careful consideration about how...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: The Village Games

Community practice in a village in ancient times would have had most people following similar...

July 25, 2016

Star Made Witch: Many Gods West Preview – Gnostic Polytheism and Animism

What is wisdom, gnosis, divine knowledge? What are the new stories of the gods and...

July 18, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: The Pagan America Project

All over the United States there is an enormous quantity of public art depicting Pagan...

July 11, 2016

Star Made Witch: A Day in the Life of a Witch

A fellow traditional witch coming to stay the weekend is extra special and we always...

June 2016

June 12, 2016

Wyrd Words: Orlando, Islam, and Glass Houses

Most of America woke up to some pretty disturbing news this morning. At 2 am....

June 09, 2016

The Lady’s Quill: Eating Ash and Spitting Fire

Whether you count its origins in the pastoral altars of Romantic poets, the channeled voice...

June 02, 2016

Wyrd Words: Building a Kindred

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

June 01, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Finding the Spirit of My Religion

I knew what she was as soon as I saw her. She was my frumpy...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Lakeside Hearth: Looking Inwards

There are numerous conflicts in modern Pagan practices. When they do spill over, the conversation...

May 19, 2016

Wyrd Words: It’s The Simple Things

Sometimes we need to set aside the heavier burdens of deep philosophical questioning and social...

May 10, 2016

Witch on Fire: Crafting Sovereignty at the Grand Sabbat

This Beltane, we brought both the pomp and ceremony of High Witchcraft plus the nitty-gritty,...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: How Do We Become Indigenous?

We are called to belong. Humans evolved from communally living apes, our closest relatives in...

April 21, 2016

Wyrd Words: Vikings in the New World

There’s been quite a buzz going about the Heathen community about the three "newly discovered"...

April 16, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

What can we do to stop Elder Flight? What can we do to keep our...

April 12, 2016

Witch on Fire: HB2 – There’s a Safe Pot to Piss in at the End of the Rainbow

This bill isn't really about transgendered people, or what pots they piss in, but it...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Happily Heathen: Keep Your Virtues Out Of My Heathenry

When Heathens turn ideals into a weapon to tear down other Heathens, we’re being just...

March 22, 2016

Witch on Fire: Aphrodite’s Thealogy of Perfection

"In Perfect love and Perfect trust." I've come to appreciate this concept as one of...

March 09, 2016

Witch on Fire: You Can Lead a Witch to Circle, But You Can’t Make Them Coven

Priestessing means that you aren't always popular. Some days you play the role of the...

March 03, 2016

Wyrd Words: Why I’m tired of Heathenry’s F.U. Debate

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Ten Tips for Running a Big, Festival-Style Ritual

Running big rituals is a lot like being a producer, director, and an actor in...

February 15, 2016

Seeking the Grail: When my Group Fails Me

One area where my own flaws become obvious is when I'm in the role of...