In these times, remember to call out to your ancestors of blood, spirit, and place for support. They are there whether or not you've interacted with them before. Your ancestors of blood were born, worked, loved, lost, and tried to put themselves back together again before they died and the hardships they faced and how … Continue reading Ancestors for Support
Category: Pagan Thoughts
Improving Group Meditations
What Is Group Meditation People view group meditation as a possible way to energetically ground the group you are performing the meditation for, help them focus, or maybe even set the mood for a ritual the group might be doing later. There’s a lot of information crammed into this post that I could go on … Continue reading Improving Group Meditations
Update for Creating Prayers
This is blog post is an update to my previous post about Creating Prayers. This past weekend, I attended Mystic South and, as usual, had an amazing time learning about aspects of my spirituality that I needed to expand my understanding of or things I had not learned of before. One of the subjects that … Continue reading Update for Creating Prayers
Declaration 127, Folkism, and Inclusivity
(The Wild Hunt posted an edited version of this as a letter to them due to the length of this version of the letter needing to be cut roughly in half. This is the full length version.) This past month of March, I was able to be a part of Cherry Hill Seminary's conference about … Continue reading Declaration 127, Folkism, and Inclusivity
The Cauldron of Poesy
Introduction This post is about the Irish mystical teaching known as the Cauldron of Poesy. In it, I cover a few topics to best prepare the reader for exploring the cauldrons as a meditation tool to better know how you are doing health-wise, emotionally and relationship with the external world, as well as mentally and … Continue reading The Cauldron of Poesy
Creating Prayers
What and Why Everyone starts somewhere down their spiritual path. You attend a ritual or a blot or do your own personal ritual as you experiment with your spirituality. Maybe you were interested in exploring your spirituality due to reading books on myths growing up (like me) or something in an alternative spiritual path called … Continue reading Creating Prayers
Hearth, Home, and Hospitality
In Latin, there is a word which is the basis of our use of the word hospitality: "hospes." Hospes has three meanings: host; guest, visitor; stranger, foreigner. Hospitality comes from the root hospes and is one of the core concepts behind Indo-European interactions in our ancestors' times. Hospitality was ingrained into ancient societies. A visitor should … Continue reading Hearth, Home, and Hospitality
Speech for My Uncle’s Funeral
When someone drops a rock into a still pond, ripples spread out in all directions. In this way, everyone touches and effects those they know and meet in small, subtle ways. The closer you are to the rock when it hits the water, the bigger the impact of the waves. We all have so many … Continue reading Speech for My Uncle’s Funeral
The Island of Misfit Toys (or You Are Not Alone)
Remember that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer episode where Rudolph and Hermey the elf who wanted to be a dentist ran away from the North Pole because they didn't fit in? The show is about how people who are picked on, don't feel understood, are "different," or feel that since no one understands them feel they … Continue reading The Island of Misfit Toys (or You Are Not Alone)