My friend Seo Helrune has recently been blogging about ancestor cultus and I recommend checking out the series of posts they have out so far. Reading the series and especially their take on the pitfalls of ancestor veneration has inspired me to write my own post here about the problems that can come up for pagans incorporating the Fair Folk into their practices or who are trying to set up the…
The Conjunction of the Pleiades: The Darkening
We are moving forward in the year and I am continuing to frame out a series of rituals for the cycle of the Pleiades. We have arrived at the next one, the conjunction with the sun which occurs around old Bealtaine (mid-May) – this year on May 14th. I have roughed out a ritual that people can use if they’d like. I’d recommend doing it during the day, when the sun is up as this is also when the…
Priesthood in Service to the Other – Part 3: the trouble with terms
I began this series inspired by conversations I was seeing in the wider pagan community about clergy. I felt that it would be good to add my voice into this as someone who serves a different role but one which has been identified as a ‘priestess’ and willingly took on that word and its associations. This has opened a fascinating dialogue on social media that has given me a lot of insight about…
Priesthood in Service to the Other – Part 2
So having written more abstractly about what I think being clergy to the Others is like in contrast to being clergy to the human community I felt like maybe I should follow that up with a bit of a more personal take on it. A discussion of what being that sort of clergy actually means in my life.
Again this is reflective of my own personal experiences and may not apply over to other people….
Priesthood in Service to the Other
Recently I’ve seen a lot of discussion about what exactly pagan priesthood is and should be, which is a good thing. This is a topic that needs to be discussed more often and more thoroughly in a community where many people clamour for the title but fewer are perhaps willing or equipped to do the actual work. John Beckett has written about pagan priesthood in several blogs including ‘Preparing for…
Manannan Mac Lir
**I can’t seem to get my fada to work on this iPad so be aware that there is a fada on the last “a” in Manannan.
Full Title: Pagan Portals: Manannan Mac Lir Meeting the Celtic God of Wave and Wonder
Author: Morgan Daimler
Synopsis: The sea is a powerful, driving force for many people, a source of sustenance as well as danger. It is no surprise that Manannan, the Celtic God of the sea, should be an important figure but one who is also as ambiguous as the element he is associated with: a trickster, a magic worker, an advisor and a warrior. In this book you will get to know the many faces of Manannan, called the son of the ocean, and learn of his important place in mythology and the pivotal role he plays in many events.
Exploring Celtic Origins
Full Title: EXPLORING CELTIC ORIGINS: New ways forward in archaeology, linguistics, and genetics.
This latest book from Barry Cunliffe “focuses on a research programme, based in the centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth in collaboration with the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, designed to explore the origins of the Celts and of the Celtic Language family.” (P. IX) Continue reading…
Why Do We View Fairies As Nature Spirits?
It’s a widespread idea at this point particularly in modern paganism and popular Western culture that fairies are nature spirits, that is that they are intrinsically bound to our natural world in some way. This idea is often simply stated as fact, implied to have always been true, or even argued as the older or more legitimate belief. In paganism its one aspect of a current trend I’m seeing to…
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Blessings Darlings!
Book reviews are coming – but life’s been busy lately. Very busy. My husband has a new contract that’s a bit of a death march on timing (so much to do, so little time to get it done) – so I’m doing all 
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Blessings Darlings!
Having consulted with others, and thought about it myself – there are more things I’d like to see in Wicca/Pagan 101 books. Let’s start with …
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