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May 2016

May 22, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Honoring Hekate in the Rite of Her Sacred Fires

On Saturday night I honored Hekate as a part of the annual Rite of Her...

May 13, 2016

Happily Heathen: Food for Thought – Heathen Polytheist Theology

Heathen theology is still relatively young. What are the questions it should address? What would...

May 09, 2016

Star Made Witch – Know Thyself

Perhaps the most pervasive and least understood advice in witchcraft is Know Thyself from the...

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 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: A Defense of Sacred Kingship

Several years ago, I took a trip out into the sticks for a Beltane ritual....

April 28, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Under the Hill

What is the meaning of this column’s title, The Blooming Staff? For a long time...

April 10, 2016

The Blooming Staff: “I Say Unto Thee, Arise!” – Emerging from the Tomb in the Aeon of Horus

There are other synchronicities, personal, ethical, and spiritual, that pushed me to finally visit my...

April 08, 2016

Wyrd Words: A Reconstructionist Argument For Inclusive Heathenry

Viking Lore makes a pretty clear case; not just for tolerating the existence of others,...

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 11, 2016

Happily Heathen: Heathen Polytheism – A Deity Dedication Contract

Deities are large, complex beings with agendas, motivations, personalities, needs, and wants. If you are...

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...

February 2016

February 14, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: The Faces of Freyja – More Than a Love Goddess

Freyja is the Lady of Love whose entire being sets hearts ablaze with passion and...

February 08, 2016

Star Made Witch: Riddle Wisdom

Riddles are a special way of gaining knowledge and power within animist mystical traditions. A...

February 02, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: The Value of Our Shadow

People who know me know that I often express concern about the imbalance I perceive...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: Dawn Unbroken

The moment of creation, the theological Big Bang, is the dawn appearing in the heart...

January 26, 2016

Witch on Fire: Broom Closets and Bible Belts – 10 Tips For Your Coming Out Party

I'd wager that many of you fine readers have struggled with the problem of being...

January 12, 2016

Witch on Fire: Hermes Gongs the Cosmic School Bell

Lo! As the first moon of my service waned into darkness, I began my quest,...

January 10, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Managing Multiple Deity Relationships

All relationships can be complicated, and human to divine relationships are no different. Deepening a...

January 08, 2016

Happily Heathen: The Apples And Oranges Of Heathen Spirituality – Lore or Experience?

Something that has been coming up a lot for me in my personal musings on...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Hills of the Horizon: Nun of the Above

From the nothingness that was the possibility of everything, a mound emerges; Something, upon that...

December 22, 2015

Witch on Fire: The Great Work, Holding the Space

As part of my spiritual practice each year I choose an area of study or...

December 10, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: A Transgender Perspective on Gendered Mystery Rites

Reducing men's or women's experiences to a biological function is a dangerous oversimplification. There are...

December 03, 2015

Wyrd Words: Odin’s Greatest Enemy, Depression in a Heathen Context

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

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Wyrd Words: We Are Our Deeds

There’s this unfortunate tendency in Pagan circles for those holding the title of ‘Elder’ to...

November 16, 2015

Making Light: The Pagan Blogosphere is Toxic

I feel like maybe I have interesting ideas about theology and that maybe some people...

November 10, 2015

Witch on Fire: Salvation of a Southern Witch

Gather 'round, my lovelies, and let Mama Heron tell you a story, the back-story, a...

November 05, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: Paganism, Theism, and Belief

How do we determine if someone is Pagan? Do they join our events and participate...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: The Three Kindreds and My Polytheist Theology

In modern Druidry we often speak of the Kindreds: the Ancestors, the Nature Spirits, and...

October 15, 2015

Wyrd Words: Feminism in Heathenry

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