The Importance of Hearth-Keeping
Cleaning is not made for those of us who were built for grand gestures. It is a war of attrition against the dust; little things over and over and over […]
Everyday Witch
“General” is so banal a term for a category. This is for posts that don’t go elsewhere in my categories list, but are still about the general theme of the blog. Blog housekeeping notes and such will go under “Mundania.”
Church, and other notes
It’s been a while since I posted. I kept meaning to write another post for October, but then it kept not happening. So here are some brief updates on various […]
Welcome, 2016
2015 was a kind of crazy year for me. WordPress was kind enough to do the 2015 blogging report for this blog, because I have Jetpack enabled, and I found […]
30 Days of Paganism: Places of spiritual significance
There are two types of “place” that I’m going to talk about here. One is a general type of place. The other is a specific spot in the world that […]
30 Days of Paganism: The future of Paganism
I want there to be more for onion-hoers. I want there to be more polytheist/pagan community centres, where people of all pagan stripes can rent rooms for classes, hold weekly […]
30 Days of Paganism: One misconception about Paganism you’d like to clear up
IT’S NOT WICCA. Seriously, though, that is a BIG misconception out there — that “paganism” is just another word for “Wicca.” It’s really really not! Using the definition I’m most […]
30 Days of Paganism: How your faith has helped you in difficult times
It helps about as much as anything else, I guess. Or maybe I’m not defining “difficult times” properly, here. See I tend to think of most of my life as […]
30 Days of Paganism: Any “secular” pastimes with religious significance, and why
I do have some secular pastimes that have, over time, acquired religious significance. Knitting/Crochet For the longest time it was just a way for me to carry on family traditions, […]
30 Days of Paganism: Priest? Clergy? One or both? Neither?
I tend to differentiate between ‘priest’ and ‘clergy’. There’s a venn diagram where they overlap, but I do think they are different roles. Priest/ess For me a priest or priestess […]
30 Days of Paganism: Personal aesthetics with magic and ritual
I admit it. I’m a fan of camp. I’m a fan of the hollywood view of witches. I love the 90s Witch Boom and the sort of grunge-gothic look that […]
30 Days of Paganism: Ethics
This is actually a kind of raw topic for me right now, so I’m going to try to be as brief as possible on it. I can sum up my […]
30 Days of Paganism: Paganism and major life events
This post’s topic can really be parsed down into “How do your religion and major life events intersect?” Which is a fair question; most mainstream religions have things in place […]
30 Days of Paganism: Other paths I’ve explored
This should be a pretty short post. I’ve explored and learned about many other religions, but very few have I looked at with the actual intent of going further than […]
30 Days of Paganism: Paganism and my relationship
Ogre was raised by a woman who was trained in the Gardnerian line of Wicca and is very involved in the local pagan scene. He’s spent his life involved in pagan […]
30 Days of Paganism: Paganism and my family/friends
I’ve already talked about this a lot in my previous posts, but I’ll revisit it. I was raised pagan, basically, with a Buddhist mom who was friendly to more pagan-y […]
30 Days of Paganism: Community
I have reached a stage in my life where I am incredibly interested and concerned in/with building community. I’m getting married in a few months (terrifying); we’ll be having kids […]
30 Days of Paganism: My ways of worship
You are the hole in my head You are the space in my bed You are the silence in between What I thought and what I said You are the […]
30 Days of Paganism: The meaning of terms like “earth-based” and what they mean to this path
Ah, this old chestnut. The idea of pagan religions all being “earth-based” is actually a pretty persistent myth. As in, it’s not true, yet it’s the thing that comes up […]
30 Days of Paganism: On finding a pantheon
Honestly…I didn’t really set out to find a pantheon. Ok, well, I did. But those searches became dead ends. At first I thought I might go Hellenic, but then I […]
30 Days of Paganism: Pantheon — Otherfaith
My relationship with the Otherfaith and the gods of that faith is still new, budding. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, as much as I can, and trying to […]
Jumping on the Deily Bandwagon
So I just joined the site Deily. It’s an offshoot of Patheos, which I have my issues with, but Deily isn’t really a blogging platform. It’s sort of a social […]
30 Days of Paganism: Pantheon — Elua & His Companions
I am only now really starting out on a path of relationship with Elua and his Blessed Companions, though I have felt a strong connection with them for years now. […]
30 Days of Paganism: Pantheon — Hellenic Gods
I don’t honor all the gods of the Hellenic pantheon. There’s some evidence that They prefer you take the pantheon as a whole, but I have a geas on me […]
30 Days of Paganism: Pantheon — Sacred Triad
I’m an eclectic pagan, so my overall pantheon is pretty…varied. I have three gods from one culture, and some from the Hellenic pantheon, and then there’s the Otherfaith and my […]
30 Days of Paganism: Patrons
I already talked about one of my patrons on the Patronage and Deeper Relationships post, so this one is just going to be a quick list of the patrons I […]