I am on a committee (called a guild) at a mainline Christian church. I have been working alongside members of that church on a shared goal – the maintenance of an open to all walking meditation space that has been important to me. The space contains a labyrinth which I have walked weekly on average […]
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The Salt Water Surrender Spell When times are hard, when I have problems that seem unsolvable, I pull out a spell I created in my twenties that always helps. At the time a situation at my work felt like big blocks of granite on my shoulders. So I thought, what is a rock, but dissolves?
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I walk the Chartres style labyrinth in downtown Vancouver on the regular, have done for decades. Walking meditation can be a great way to meditate and pray and stay grounded in your body at the same time. Worth trying out if you find yourself drifting otherwise. I go and walk, in silence (at least I’m
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It’s now 14+ months after I fell on my head in a Norse ritual dedicated to the Norns and received a rune and a head injury. In this time, in addition to mostly healing my head, I birthed a lesbian country band that has recorded and is performing professionally, a novel that had been gestating
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Odin is one of the Norse Gods, a warrior king who becomes a magician through ordeal and personal sacrifice. I didn’t know very much about him before last October, when I attended Hecate’s Sickle pagan festival in the U.S.. Odin is the Allfather, not the Somefather Except, I knew enough to spout off on facebook
A few months ago, my local larger Pagan/Wiccan community had a #MeToo incident. A woman who I had seen and spoken to at events disclosed that she had been both abused and sexually harassed at events as a girl and young woman, by multiple men, over several years. She had grown up as a child
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Most types of prosperity magic fall into a few main categories: cleansing, clearing, blessing, envisioning and creating focussing objects. They operate on the general magical principles of making oneself worthy to recieve good things, clearing out the unwanted to make space for the good to flow in, blessing what is already good so it will increase and inviting or summoning good things in. The following is the first in a series of posts about prosperity magic, beginning today with cleansing magic.
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Is environmentalism part of Paganism? Part of Wicca? Many Pagans believe strongly that environmental conservation is a necessary part of their devotion to the Goddess. However, if you go to Pagan festivals where there are many traditions represented you’ll find that others do not. I was going to write this all not-judgy, and neutral, analysing
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Composting doesn’t have to be hard. I have composted for 30 years, and here the simplest, lowest work way to do it in a city yard.
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Update February 2020: In recent times, I’ve become a bit cautious about the Aquarian Tabernacle Church – perhaps its the cultural divide between brash American style and Canadian politeness, but it seems to have become highly oriented toward fundraising through selling products, and I’ve noticed the lower level priests and priestesses do not appear to
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