“So, now that I’ve made all these tools, what do you want of me?” I asked. “Well, you use them, of course!” She said. “But I’m not sure how, and for what purpose!” She sighed. “I suppose it’s only fair to tell you since we had you write the journey in the first place. Ok, […]
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Samhain Thoughts: A Conversation with Ereshkigal
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“You humans are very strange creatures,” She said as She sat down. I took a sip of my cocoa. “I can’t argue with You about that. We tend to do a lot of weird stuff to each other and to our planet. We are stubborn, willful, quick to anger, but then we can be full […]
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Thou Art Goddess
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One of my oft-heard complaints is that we need to have more body representation in our deity images. Now that my wife has renewed her photography art, we both got the push to create a picture of a Goddess with specific attributes. We did the photoshoot this morning, and here’s the final composition: We’re not […]
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TWIH Episode 77: The Politics of the Body with Irene McCalphin
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Irene McCalphin joins us this week to talk about the intersections of fat liberation and marginalization. Why is it important to have representation in spiritual imagery, both in regards to race and body size? Why is the language of our rituals important? How can we move through learning about these issues of marginalization and come […]
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3rd Week of Lent: The Dadga and Healing my Relationship to Food
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Right now, I’m in the middle of my time with The Dagda. Getting up earlier to make breakfast took a bit of getting used to, but it’s been nice to sit and eat with my wife before she goes to work in the morning. The other side of having to make food for others as […]
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TWIH Episode 68: The Unnamed Path, Gender Identity, and Body Image with David Shorey and Chase Powers #pantheacon
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In this episode we talk to David Shorey and Chase Powers, both members of the Unnamed Path, a magickal tradition for Men Who Love Men. What is the Unnamed Path? Why is single gendered space important to some people? Why do people get stuck on the gender binary, and why do people get bent out […]
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I’m Wiccan and Christian. Does that bother you?
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In the last few days I’ve seen a lot people in several forums say things like “you can’t call yourself a Christian and practice witchcraft” or “you can’t call yourself a Christian and practice traditions from other religion’s holidays.” The typical reason given is that it’s somehow evil if you do. I’ve heard similar things from […]
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How do you see Deity? #showmehecate #showmethedagda
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My friend Ember has an interesting project going on about body positive and diverse representations of deities of beauty (Freya, Aphrodite, etc.), which has poked at some of my brains to write here about how we represent deities in general. In my workshops that I give about the language we use to describe the body […]
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Third Week of Samhain: Journey
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You who are alive can only visit with those who have passed. You who grieve, know that those you love have the choice to stay or to move on. I can take you to the Summerlands, but until you see My face in your last moments, you cannot stay there. This is true of those […]
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Second Week of Samhain: Change
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You cannot escape change. Your body changes. Your mind changes. Life is nothing but change from the time you leave the womb until the time you cross the threshold and leave your body behind. There are also all the little changes, the little deaths, that make up the in-between. Relationships change. You move from place […]