I have been a Pagan for over 25 years. I meditate, I exercise, I get out in nature and I watch what I eat. I trust my intuition. I believe that small things can have big effects, and that the energy of how we accept something can influence how it works in our lives. Here’s […]
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I’ve been thinking a bit about rites of passage lately. I attended a rite of passage of a sort yesterday, a ceremony / gathering by indigenous people and supporters in recognition of 215 children whose remains were found recently. They were kidnapped and then murdered by Canadian churches and government. Finding proof of harm others
She says,I am teaching You to love YourselfShe says,trust yourselfno matter where your heart takes you,we will always be there, together.and so Love loves me again,and brings me back to myself This is a mini-poem I wrote during a very difficult time in my life, when I was drawing heavily on my internal resources and
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This spring is an unusual one, in the midst of a pandemic. It is truly a time and place of death and rebirth, more literally than usual. Within my friends circle – marriages are ending, babies have been born and cloistered from their families, old people are dying unattended if not unmourned. Many people’s employment
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So, I got connected with Odin spiritually through racism. Through opposing racism. When a white supremacist vigilante group called the S*ldiers of Od*n (don’t want to give them visibility) was active in my town, I spoke up saying that as a person of Norse heritage and a Pagan I was entirely sure that Odin was
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Are you looking to deepen your Pagan practice with a daily practice or holyday observance? Here are some places to start with a focus on renewal and health for 2021 The Sabbats 2021 Wiccan holidays called Sabbats are based on the journey of the earth around the sun. Each year has two solstices and two
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The rune I received (literally written over my eye) back when I fell on my head at a Norse Pagan festival two years ago, was a bindrune. It can be seen as a combination of the runes Algis (representing antlers) and Tyr (an arrow) or Algis in two directions, which are the symbols of life
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Its that time of year, when bright lights, greenery and gifts signal the Winter Solstice. We religious Pagans get a pass on having to go to endless Christmas festivities this year, and may be at home for Solstice, with only our closest people, for the first time in ages. I could write a bright and
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I have come to accept the fact that I am entering the Crone part of my life, and I’m in the process of figuring out what it means. In my faith, Crone is one of the categories of Goddess, a type of Goddess both honoured and feared, like the women who embody her. I’m not
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Empty Spaces, Waiting The unemployment rate in Canada was 9 % in September of this year of our transformation, 2020. It had been 10.5% in the previous month and even higher in the months previously. About one out of every 10 working age people in Canada is not currently working for money. I am certain
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