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April 2016

April 13, 2016

“Just Let Me Label You So We Can Stop Arguing” (On Polytheisms, Jewishness, and Identity)

Your semantics issue may be someone else's lived reality.

April 06, 2016

Together We Form the Bodies of the Gods

In order to world our gods, we need disagreement. We need conflicting versions of the...

March 2016

March 11, 2016

Morrigan / Anu Devotional Art

February 2016

February 16, 2016

Giving Bullets to the Morrigan

What we choose to offer to a god--and our reason for choosing it--says much more...

January 2016

January 06, 2016

We Need You, Priestessing: Rabbi Jill Hammer and Taya Shere’s The Hebrew Priestess

A review of the new book by the founders of the Kohenet Institute.

November 2015

November 05, 2015

Abuse Is Not Love–And That Goes For Gods, Too

We’ve become conditioned, in our culture, to mistake violence for love. He punched you? He...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Why I’m Still a Witch

The consequences of me not tending my Morrigan shrine aren't being struck by lightning, or...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

The Cracks Are How the Light Gets In: On Messing Up

If everything always goes smoothly and without any hiccups, then when do we get to...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

Anu Sent Me a Litha Dream

Anu is a goddess of primal love: the deep, pheromone-driven love that makes us pine...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Mad Max and the Morrigan: Saying Hello to Your Violence

If we run away from our violence, it catches up with us, but if we...

May 14, 2015

“If you come to the dark and call, the Morrigan will be there for you:” On Depression and Blood Sacrifice

Sometimes you work with a deity because they embody your ideals. Sometimes you work with...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

What Does Fundamentalism Look Like?

Fundamentalism turns deities into boogeymen, and leaving fundamentalism means realizing that the boogeyman never existed.

January 11, 2015

Io Aphrodite – An Aphrodite Mandala

Far from being "just" a goddess of love, Aphrodite is one of the biggest, most...

December 2014

December 14, 2014

Growing in Drought

What's the point of gardening, I wonder, when we're not going to get any rain?...

December 10, 2014

Hymn to the Morrigan #8

My latest in a series of hymns.

November 2014

November 20, 2014

Would You Catcall the Morrigan?

Catcalling is part of rape culture, and street harassment is a form of violence.

October 2014

October 10, 2014

Theurgic Binding: A Response

For the past couple of days, I've been mulling over whether to post some kind...

October 10, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #7

Behind the teeth of nightmare there is knowledge. Within the monster's chambered heart is love. Your...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #6

Sacred lover, Your menstrual blood the wine of warriors, Your breath that which shudders the earth...

September 19, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #5

Dark lady, you whisper in my ear. Witch queen, you whisper: Weave magic into the wind...

September 08, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #4

O Angry Earth, We have relinquished our claim to you. How patient you were! How...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #3

Lady of Peace! Lady of Power! Lady of Sweetness! Lady of Honey! Lady of Bloodlust!...

August 21, 2014

Hymn to the Morrigan #2

Terrible Grandmother, Black and Red Woman, Let me drink your rage Until it transforms me....

July 2014

July 19, 2014

Pagan Blog Project: Offerings

A few weeks ago I was invoking East for an esbat when I let the...

July 12, 2014

Pagan Blog Project – Nature Goddess: My Morrigan

I had a post all planned for the Pagan Blog Project's M week. I was...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

A Hymn to the Morrígan

O Morrígan, You are an ancient power. Before blade and bullet, Before tooth and talon, You...

May 10, 2014

Pagan Blog Project: Journeys and Jet Planes

I will do your work, my Goddess, throughout the cycles of the day; I will...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Pagan Blog Project: Dear Isis

Dear Isis, I'm one of those devotees. You know the ones. You do them a...

April 24, 2014

Mirrors

When I look in the mirror, I can sometimes glimpse the Goddess. When the Morrigan...

April 11, 2014

Pagan Blog Project: Horned God–To Cernunnos, With Love

Beloved God, Ancient Hunter, Quiet Shaman: The first time you came to me was when...