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March 2013

March 25, 2013

Creating a Birth Altar, Part 2 (Unexpected Wisdom)

Words have always been a powerful source of inspiration to me. I received birth wisdom...

March 18, 2013

Creating a Birth Altar, Part 1

Inspired by birth altars created by artist Amy Swagman, I decided to make a special...

March 09, 2013

The magic of making a life

A brief reflection on the holiness and magic of creating a new human.

March 01, 2013

Make Magic of Your Life As A Parent

What do I desire? In the last few years of pregnancy and parenting, often all...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Purify

The command to purify wasn't just for me and it wasn't going to be something...

February 25, 2013

Support during miscarriage

Today I want to share some of the ideas the book offers for ritualizing a...

February 11, 2013

January link round-up

This is a doozy of a monthly round-up.

February 10, 2013

Introverted Mama

I'm amazed at the connections I uncovered once I starting thinking about how my introverted...

February 05, 2013

Rituals to Honor Miscarriage

There is no right or wrong way to plan a ritual or ceremony to acknowledge...

February 04, 2013

Birth centers

A new study out last week provides evidence for the safety of midwifery care in...

February 02, 2013

I keep vigil…

I keep vigil for the woman who cries in the night I keep vigil for...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

All about my Birth book

"I want to give kudos to the author for writing a text that recognizes that...

January 24, 2013

Midwife’s Invocation

Opening ourselves to the spirit of compassion, inspired by a Midwife's Invocation.

January 14, 2013

Pagan Health Survey II

Cultural anthropologist Kimberly Kirner is running an online survey on Pagans and access to healthcare....

January 03, 2013

Magickal naming

You need only look at countless fairy tales, myths and legends of creatures who would...

January 02, 2013

Wednesday Wisdom: Altered states

A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

My favorite posts of 2012

It's fun to look back over the blog posts of 2012. This was the year...

December 27, 2012

How you envision birth at the deepest level

Birth art can be meditative, relaxing, problem solving and fun. You don’t have to be...

December 19, 2012

Wednesday Wisdom: Sacred Space

A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a...

December 13, 2012

Holidays After Loss: Spirit Babies Ceremony

Perhaps for the first time, we were not alone facing our grief. Isa said to...

December 05, 2012

Blessingways and the role of ritual

Many people are starved for ritual, but they may also be deeply scarred from rituals...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Guardian of the Womb

By Molly Sometimes for me the Goddess is a symbol—of my own personal power, of...

November 15, 2012

There is a crack in everything

"I have always believed in the need to acknowledge life's darkness in order to fully...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

From the editor’s desk: Harvest Time

As I explained last week, I'm going to try out making a weekly editor's post,...

October 18, 2012

From the editor’s desk: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Pagan Families has mostly been a place to amass our collective resources related to Paganism...

October 09, 2012

Eating and Spirituality, Part 4: Myth and Symbol

This is the final post in a series on eating and spirituality during the childbearing...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Review: Sacred Pregnancy

"Growing a baby offers a woman the opportunity to be part of Mother Nature's mysteries,...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

30 days of peace

By Janet Callahan Not every pregnancy goes according to plan. After 5 years of on-again,...

July 16, 2012

Seven Spiritual Habits to Set During Pregnancy

Fortunately, I dove into my spirituality during pregnancy and instinctively established some practices before the...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Thinking About Having Children: One Pagan’s Perspective

I looked forward to the joys, even as I knew (as best as I could)...