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September 2022

September 22, 2022

Simple Witchery: Right Relation – Holding the Space Between Generations

The ancestors are once again calling to me in a louder voice. Or perhaps it...

December 2020

December 14, 2020

Between Two Worlds: Exploring My Matriarchal Motherland

I started visiting my ancestors' graves within days after returning to my matriarchal motherland. Then...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Simple Witchery: Healing Your Ancestors . . .

What if your ancestors weren’t so nice in their living years? Is it time to...

October 20, 2020

Druid in the City: Samhain with Challenging Blood Ancestors

Sometimes it can feel like there is pressure to honor your blood ancestors at this...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

Pergamum Unfurled: Honoring the Ancestors

The practice of ancestor veneration is simultaneously one of the most clear and confusing that...

October 2018

October 19, 2018

Between Two Worlds: Samhain, My Sister and Hekate

I have never been a big fan of Samhain and the honoring of the ancestors....

October 16, 2017

The Crow’s Nest: Honoring the Dead with Offerings at Samhain

What is an “Offering”? Why even give offerings in the first place? What constitutes an...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: A Mystics Perception of Subjective Reality

A mystic recognizes that each of us adds a 2nd story on top of objective...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

The Cartomancer: A Moving Number

What goes through your mind when you move house? How attached are you to things?...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Happily Heathen: The Blot’s the Thing

In preparing for a class, I made a last-minute decision to include a short generic...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

The Cartomancer: Ritual for meeting your ancestors in the simple

When something is simple, by virtue of the nature of the simple, it is above...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Happily Heathen: Healing Old Wounds at a New Ancestor’s Grave

Families aren’t perfect. Not everyone in a family likes or agrees with one another, and...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: Narrative Theology III – the Doughnut and the Dice

One of the things about stories is of course the way they keep turning up,...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Speaking of Ancestors

As my daughter entered labor many miles from me, I stopped my daily routine to...

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...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Happily Heathen: The Blot’s the Thing

I have recently started an “Intro to Heathenry” class in my hometown. In preparing for...

September 24, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: Queer and Trans Identities and Pagan Mythology

Trying to shoehorn figures from our mythologies into modern concepts of identity can be harmful...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

The Cartomancer: Personality Test

How often do we pose these questions to ourselves: What do I know about myself...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Heathen Woman: Reconstructing Heathen Rites

We can read and study, but until rites and practices are integrated into real world...

October 28, 2014

Ancestor Remembrance Project: Blood and Spirit

Family and ancestry are not limited by blood; the choices we make link us to...

October 21, 2014

Jewish Witch: Ancestors and Genocide

There are only so many prayers you can say for the dead before, like the...

October 13, 2014

When Grief Becomes Ritual, When Remembering Renews

Last year, I lost a beloved companion. Reclaiming's Spiral Dance ritual, now in its 35th...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Heathen Woman: Honoring Our Ancestors, Part Two

Why should I honor the ancestors I knew personally instead of reaching far back into...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

Seekers and Guides: The Importance of Remembrance

As Pagans, it is especially important that we remember the powerful and terrible experience of...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

Samhain: Blessed Be All Souls

This week many Pagans celebrate Samhain, popularly known as Hallowe’en. It is the ancient, and...