Category Archives: By Land Sea and Sky

Thoughts on Boudicca and Hero-cults

“When the going gets tough, the tough channel Boudicca” – T-shirt wisdom  If you ask me who my favorite historic person is, or which one person in history I’d like to meet, I would answer Boudicca. Ever since I first heard her story(…)

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Life, Near-Death, and Close Encounters with Deity

I’ve had the blog on a bit of a hiatus as I’ve been dealing with some intense personal issues. The experiences themselves ranged from awe inspiring to terrifying and I’ve debated for the last week about how much to talk about here – in the end(…)

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How We Define Ourselves

My february entry for the Hartford FAVs site is up, looking at how we as a community define ourselves. http://hartfordfavs.com/faith/clergy-and-congregations/how-we-define-ourselves

Old Gods in a Modern World

I have started blogging once a month for Moon Books – here is my first entry for them, an essay about how the Old Gods fit into a modern world (…)

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Finding Strength

I look to my religion to help me find a sense of peace in my life, especially to face challenges and difficulties. I have always been the sort of person who turns to faith in trying times because I find my strength in that sense of belonging to(…)

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Sacred space

“Every religion must have its holy places, affording a means of communication between man, gods, spirits, and forces of nature.” – Hilda Ellis Davidson

I think that one of the most interesting concepts(…)

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The Fire Festivals in history and myth

The main holidays generally celebrated by CRs and Irish polytheists are Samhain, Imbolc, Beltaine, and Lughnasa; some people also acknowledge the solar festivals, but the four fire festivals are the most commonly celebrated by all.(…)

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Druids, Sacrifice, and the Power of the Head

One of the issues about ancient Druids that tends to be brought up by both supporters and detractors is that of ritual sacrifice. Those who support modern Druidism tend to try to minimize or deny the practices among ancient Druids, while(…)

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Female Druids

Every now and then I run across someone who tells me that I can’t be a Druid because only men were Druids historically, or that there was gender seperation historically whether it was simply the different genders living seperately or full(…)

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Being Pagan or Not Being Pagan

It seems like its getting more and more trendy for people to start distancing themselves from the umbrella term of paganism, which is usually used to describe someone who is a modern polytheist and can apply to almost(…)

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