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June 2018

June 13, 2018

Summer Solstice In Ancient Greek And Modern Times

How have ancient Greeks celebrated the summer solstice, and what are ways that modern Hellenists...

June 11, 2018

Letting Go Of Binary Thinking: Polytheistic, Pagan, And Occult Realities Are Complicated

It's time to move on from overly simplistic, black and white notions of what our...

June 08, 2018

Dropping Expectations: What Polytheists & Pagans Need To Relearn About Religion

What polytheists and pagans need to question, think about, and reconsider in order to better...

June 06, 2018

Priestess Of Apollo Has A Must See Gorgeous Oracle Deck On Kickstarter

An Etruscan polytheist and priestess of Apollo has put her artistic skills to work on...

June 04, 2018

Hekate As A Tutelary Deity: Magic And Spirit Work In Hellenism

Hekate is an extremely popular goddess with many aspects and attributes, including her role in...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

When Your Relationship With The Gods And Your Faith Isn’t Healthy

Those of us who are actively involved in our respective religions can get pretty passionate...

May 30, 2018

Practical Gnosis: How to Discern Experience vs Ego

How can you tell if your experience or perception is valid? Is it a deity...

May 23, 2018

The Orphic Hymns Are Getting A Modern Facelift, And They’re Incredible

The Orphic Hymns, well known as being among the various sacred writings from ancient Hellenism,...

May 18, 2018

Your Hellenism Is Not My Hellenism, And This Is Okay

Hellenism, better known as Greek polytheism or Greek religion, has historically been aptly described as...

May 14, 2018

Personal Experience And Gnosis In Polytheistic Paganism

Not everyone was brought into polytheism and paganism via personal experience and gnosis, but for...

May 10, 2018

How Do I Get In Touch Or Communicate With A God Or Daimon?

A question I get ask often is, "How can I get in touch with a...

May 09, 2018

Apollo Is Not A God Of Rationality And Other Facts I Need To Share

As a priestess of Apollo I feel the need to share an overview of both...

May 09, 2018

Spiritual Purification And Miasma: What It Is And Isn’t

All about the concept of miasma in Greek polytheistic religion, and why "spiritual or ritual...

April 2018

April 16, 2018

Why I Really Hate And Despise Beltaine But Not Beltaine

Why am I of two minds about Beltaine? Why do I really, really hate Beltaine?...

April 03, 2018

Divination In Magical And Spiritual Practice

How is divination useful in your magical or spiritual practice? Here's a number of reasons...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

More Than A Party God: Dionysos, God Of Magic And The Mysteries

Dionysos is a party god because wine is sacred to him, right? Definitely not! Here's...

March 30, 2018

“Respect Muh Authoritay!” – Good Leaders vs Egos And Abuse

What makes a good leader, and why do we not question both leaders and authority...

March 23, 2018

More Than Just Intention: What Makes Magic Work

Magic is more than just mere intent, or all of magic would work on the...

March 15, 2018

Alchemy, Magic, Spiritual and Personal Development, And You

Alchemy in its simplest definition is the transformation and changing of a base material into...

March 13, 2018

Priests, Priesthoods, and Patron Deities in the Modern Age

Do we need priests in pagan and polytheistic religions? What exactly DOES priesthood mean, anyway?