To no one's surprise who follows me on my main twitter account, I've found myself in the throes of a new obsession that was seeded by watching the new Star Trek show, Strange New Worlds. I've been a Trekkie for some time, started by watching episodes of Voyager with my mother as they were coming …
I crave prayer. It's hard for me not to fall back into it as often as I can (not that I've ever tried to go without it once I'd discovered it). I have a pretty broad definition of prayer as more or less the mindful surrender to connection with the Gods or other numinous spirits …
Continue reading Prayer: Cultivating Relationship with the Gods
As a Heathen polytheist first and witch second, I've found my relationship with the concepts of magick not as quickly and easily defined. For a long time, I chose not to even think much about magick at all, since I found that it was more important to my identity and to my personal cosmology to …
Continue reading Touching the Moon: Thinking About Magick, Wicca, and Being a Witch
Wow. It's been a while, hasn't it? If we're being honest, I haven't felt inspired in quite some time and all of my writing and health and even spiritual projects have fallen to the wayside. I've found that my spirituality pivots between inwardly and outwardly focused. I'm sure it had to do with the natural …
I've realized that my previous post about my journey with detransition was being used as ammunition by unsavory types (read: TERFs). As such, I made the post private and want to make this post in response: I am so sorry for any hurt that my story may have caused for any of my friends and …
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I've been wanting to codify the myth of the Wheel of the Year in my practice for a while now and thinking about Sun-Waiting opened the door for me to start to bring my thoughts around to the seasonal cycle. I've never found a big problem with the traditional neo-pagan idea of the 8 fold …
Continue reading Wheel of the Year: Telling the Cosmic Story
I'm starting to write this the day after the first night in the celebration of Sun-Waiting, and before I did any first bit of observing, I made a post on twittter (you can find me there @cottageheathen if you're curious) about the holiday. I got quite a few curious people who had not heard of …
November is such a powerfully liminal time. It comes right on the heels of Samhain and boasts no major pagan holiday in it. It can feel almost like something to spiritually coast through on our way to Yule. And, in my home in Michigan, it offers this strange space of mostly fall but also not …
Continue reading Honoring Ancestors: Queer Rite of Elevation
A little beyond the scope of the topics I like to talk about on this blog, but I figured I would write about it anyway. After not attempting anything even like it since high school (well over 10 years ago now), I decided that this year I would give nanowrimo a try. I assume most …
Heathen Field Guide 