Yesterday, at sunset (4:25 PM), I gave offerings to Helios, Sunna, Sulis, and Belesama — frankincense and Grüvi nonalcoholic wine. I welcomed the household Gods, read Fragment 1 by Parmenides, and read prayers to the Sun Goddesses from A Year of Pagan Prayer before turning to a prayer that I composed for Belesama and Proclus' … Continue reading 2022 Winter Solstice Reflections, Annual Goals, and Household Rites
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🌄 Happy Solstice! 🌅
On Saturday night, my mom called. My girlfriend and I were just settling into the new couch — I've had getting a real couch in my purchase plan for a few years, and it was finally able to be realized now that I was on PTO for the holidays — and my mom had figured … Continue reading 🌄 Happy Solstice! 🌅
One Month Ago, I Deleted Twitter
On November 14, 2022, I deleted my personal Twitter without announcing it. Before spin class, I was looking through the suggested items in my Google News feed, and I saw that two-factor authentication was being dismantled. Had —apparently — already been dismantled. F–k, I thought, I've been logged out for months and won't be able … Continue reading One Month Ago, I Deleted Twitter
The Body and the Beehives
Yesterday, I finished reading a translation of Akka Mahadevi's vacanas for Shiva. Vacana seems to be a specific term for a free-verse form. I had never encountered writings from the Lingayat Shiva tradition, and it was very educational for me. It turns out that, for at least over a millennium, there has been resistance to … Continue reading The Body and the Beehives
What Happens When You Ask AI to Give You Stories About the Gods
Like many people on the Internet, I have found the ChatGPT AI tool. Unlike many people, I do not have grandiose views of AI. It is not sentient any more than the random number generator I use when I ask the Gods to show me which Delphic Maxims to focus on every week, and the … Continue reading What Happens When You Ask AI to Give You Stories About the Gods
A Miscellany of Quotations: A Few Thought-Provoking Passages from Fiction
I finished reading Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Before We Visit the Goddess today, and I'd like to share a few passages from 125-128, the pages that had the most impact on me. The book is an excellent read, and in the selections below, I've tried to avoid spoilers. Far as I know, I've never been inside … Continue reading A Miscellany of Quotations: A Few Thought-Provoking Passages from Fiction
November 2022: Heading Into Late Autumn
Let's begin this monthly update with a photograph of dried flowers that I found at the farmer's market during the first weekend of November, which I offered to Aphrodite. It is her season, after all. One of the reasons I love this card from Susan Seddon Boulet is that the artist did not hypersexualize Aphrodite. … Continue reading November 2022: Heading Into Late Autumn
A Visual Representation of Intellectual Development
Sometimes, I mention that I was extremely overconfident in my teens and early 20s, which was followed by a colossal intellectual paralysis of self-doubt in my late 20s that resolved in my early 30s, thank Apollon. It's very common to need to work through things in one's 20s, go to therapy, do self-development, &c., &c., … Continue reading A Visual Representation of Intellectual Development
We’re Probably Not Prepared
A few months ago, some new Pew stats dropped — a model of what happens if Christianity continues to down-trend. In the model, America becomes dominated by "nones" (and everyone grouped with them, presumably including the "spiritual but not religious" crowd). The information Pew provides on the release itself clarifies that: Under each of the … Continue reading We’re Probably Not Prepared
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