The paperback of Acts of Speech is available for purchase. It has been listed automatically on Amazon, but to order from another source (I highly recommend your local independent bookstore), you will have to call the bookstore to express interest — it's in the main book ordering database that booksellers use, but booksellers need to … Continue reading The Paperback of Acts of Speech is Available!
Month: November 2020
An Ancestor Prayer
(Photo by Mitja Juraja on Pexels.com. This is very moody and mysterious, and I appreciate that WordPress has integrated photos from Pexels.) I formalized my ancestor offerings yesterday. This is one of the (several) prayers. I also wrote a prayer directed at the sages and theologians of the past for their blessings, but am a … Continue reading An Ancestor Prayer
A HeSP Full Moon Ritual
(Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com) This is the promised follow-up post with the HeSP (Hellenic Syncretic Polytheism) ritual for the full moon. It combines some Hellenic recon elements of worshipping the Gods (namely, the majority of the ritual structure) with a few elements from yoga (pranayama and some postures) and two components that I … Continue reading A HeSP Full Moon Ritual
Honoring the Moon
The ad hoc ritual space at the beginning of the ritual. There's a passage in Marinus' Life of Proclus, the hagiography in honor of Proclus' life, that really struck me because it made me nostalgic for lunar rituals when I first read it, and often near the full moon, I'll remember it because it was … Continue reading Honoring the Moon