I've been reading Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels over the past few weeks. It's fun, dense, and filled with really cool stories (but, at least in the ebook, not enough pictures). While reading, I have been looking up terms like safety bicycle and some of the people named, particularly the American … Continue reading 🚲 The Gods Are Always Found 🚲
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Key Symbolism is Polyvalent
In this short post, I want to share a passage from Joan Breton Connelly's Portrait of a Priestess (pages 92-93) that I have been meaning to post here for a while. It can also enrich an offhand comment that I made in my last blog post here. Many people have an instant association between keys … Continue reading Key Symbolism is Polyvalent
On Religious Jewelry in 2025
I started wearing a pentacle again earlier this year. Not always, and not at work. Sometimes, often when running weekend errands, or during work from home days when I know I’ll be at the laundromat during my breaks. It was both a decision and not a decision. Last year, I bought a stainless steel Hestia … Continue reading On Religious Jewelry in 2025
Repatriation/Rematriation and Cultural Reception
Out of curiosity a few months ago, I watched a "trends of 2023" video on YouTube from the Economist. One of the big topics was re(p/m)atriation, and this has been an escalating trend worldwide over the past few years. In Europe, this most often involves looted goods from South Asia and West Africa, such as … Continue reading Repatriation/Rematriation and Cultural Reception
Why I No Longer Call Myself a Hellenic Polytheist
This blog post gets into our desire for authenticity and how self-reflection and being challenged pushed me to confront unhealthy thoughts, behaviors, and assumptions over the past few years, culminating in dropping the label Hellenic polytheist in favor of describing myself as theistic — I worship Gods. It uses three interwoven things — the article … Continue reading Why I No Longer Call Myself a Hellenic Polytheist
The Seasons and the Gods
One 🤯 moment in Proclus' Republic essays — specifically in the one on the speech of the Muses, essay 13 — is when Proclus describes the correspondences between different Gods and seasons. We are now in summer, meaning that we are in a season of Ares. Winter is for Kronos, spring for Zeus, and autumn … Continue reading The Seasons and the Gods
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
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
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
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