Since late November, I have been working on The Soul's Inner Statues in GitHub, a project that is meant to supersede many pages on this blog about developing a practice that celebrates many Gods. It is written for anyone getting started with a practice, and it combines practical advice with grounding in (to be honest, … Continue reading Soul’s Inner Statues Live Beta
Tag: polytheism
For Athene
Athene of the summit, blazing with intellectual fire,Goddess who burns the perimeter around material desires,quenching them to embers, awakening the soul’s seedto grasp for the highest summit, may you hear this prayer,O daughter of Zeus and Metis, virginal and chaste,adorned with the aegis, shaking your shield,your spear reaching down into matter's deep recesses,a sign and … Continue reading For Athene
A Beautiful Snippet from the LAWS
The Gods are on our side — as also are the guardian spirits — and we in turn are the property of the Gods and guardian spirits. What is fatal for us is injustice, and arrogance allied to folly; our salvation is justice, and self-control allied to wisdom, and these are to be found dwelling … Continue reading A Beautiful Snippet from the LAWS
Creating New Images and a Slow Weekend
Saturday dawned bright and beautiful. After my morning routine, I took out some blank popsicle sticks and Micron pens to make some God-sticks. Often, while observing the auspicious offering days in the lunar calendar, I have noted to myself which Gods are not represented with God-sticks, but I seldom make new ones. The procrastination weight … Continue reading Creating New Images and a Slow Weekend
January 2022 “We Are Individuals in Communities” Divination
Obligatory context: In 2020, due to feeling a lot of social burnout, pessimism, and pain about our wider polytheistic communities, I started doing a divination reading every three months about the polytheistic communit[y/ies]. The point of this divination, like most divinations I do, is to highlight growth areas that we may be missing that prevent … Continue reading January 2022 “We Are Individuals in Communities” Divination
Olive Branches for Athene
Yesterday, about half an hour after sunset, a package arrived with the olive branches I had ordered to put on the shrine for Athene. I pulled them from the box, slashed into the tough stems, and put them in a vase with water. The vase filled with olive branches. Regarding my current main icon of … Continue reading Olive Branches for Athene
Printable Lunar Calendar Sheets
A while ago, I shared a printable lunar calendar that I personally use (with some changes since then!) to organize myself every lunar month. I would like to share new printables, primarily because the old one was being downloaded by many, many people, and it made me a bit anxious that people would think some … Continue reading Printable Lunar Calendar Sheets
Prayer Itself Isn’t Toxic, but Spiritual Leaders Sometimes Can Be
For the past few weeks, I've been reading Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. I'm two-thirds through reading it. In this post, I will discuss two points within the book: the first my critique of how Montell describes prayer, the second some comments I have on toxic leaders in spiritual communities abusing the concept … Continue reading Prayer Itself Isn’t Toxic, but Spiritual Leaders Sometimes Can Be
My (Preliminary) Review of Nolan’s A YEAR OF PAGAN PRAYER
This morning while doing solstice offerings, I opened up Barbara Nolan's A Year of Pagan Prayer: A Sourcebook of Poems, Hymns, and Invocations from Four Thousand Years of Pagan History, turned to December, and found a beautiful prayer for Sunna sandwiched between a traditional Welsh folk song and a Wassail poem from the early 17th … Continue reading My (Preliminary) Review of Nolan’s A YEAR OF PAGAN PRAYER
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