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November 2016

November 24, 2016

A Pagan Requiem

I have been thinking for a while that we need more liturgical poetry in Pagan...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Creating Meaningful Public Ritual

We have all been to rituals that fell flat, or didn't work as intended. We...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Pagan Ritual for Pulse, Orlando

After the Orlando shooting, a small group of LGBTQIA Pagans came together to create a...

January 2016

January 06, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Grounding and Centering

Many Pagan rituals begin with grounding and centering. It comes from the Taoist tradition originally,...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Levels of Symbolism

According to CG Jung, there are three levels of symbolism: personal, cultural, and universal. Personal...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

A Pagan coming-out ritual

A ritual that celebrates coming out as a rite of passage, and welcomes the newly-identified...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

Samhain and Remembrance

The Pagan festivals are less about a single day when we reflect on or celebrate...

August 2014

August 09, 2014

Why do we need labels?

I have been asked twice recently why people need labels for sexual orientations and gender...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Lammas

It is surprisingly hard to design rituals for large numbers of people that can involve...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

Pagan prayer

A prayer can be nothing more than time taken to set an intention for the...

March 10, 2014

Wiccanate Privilege and Polytheist Wiccans

We should dismantle Wiccanate privilege as soon as possible. Let’s have devotional polytheism, liturgical Paganism,...

March 05, 2014

Drugs: it’s all about the context

Drugs and other mind-altering substances have been used in a sacred context for millennia. It...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Ritual safety

I once attended a ritual where the temple (a basement room) had a polystyrene ceiling,...

June 2013

June 01, 2013

When knowledge was power

Ritual often seems like an activity designed only for interaction with the preternatural or the...

April 2013

April 04, 2013

Ritual, liturgy, and worship

There are several different modes of ritual, which have different meanings and purposes. When writing...