The other day, my little boy brought me a clay pot that he had planted a seed in awhile ago and he was concerned that nothing had ever grown in it (it had, but unfortunately we have a mischievous cat that likes to pick at and eat young growing things). I realized that we [...]
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Planting Spinach Of The SOUL
Posted in Farming, Spirituality, tagged Agriculture, Biglaw, Cats, Chicago, Children, Debt, Economics, Family, Farming, Food, Gardening, Instinct, Law, Law School, Marriage, Mental Health, Mini-Farming, Nature, Parenting, Planting, Plants, Rosemary, Sage, Spinach, Spirituality, Urban Homesteading on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Shrine To Hestia
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Candles, Deity, Family, Fire, Flame, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Hearth, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hestia, Home, Impiety, Kitchen, Light, Marriage, Neopaganism, Orthopraxy, Paganism, Piety, Polytheism, Prayer, Shrine, Vesta, Worship, Yankee Candle on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a picture of our shrine to Hestia, the goddess of the hearth and arguably the central focus of Hellenic pagan household worship.
Yes, in case you were wondering, it’s just a tart burner from Yankee Candle. The trend in modern Hellenic polytheism, as far as I understand, is to put a shrine to Hestia [...]
No Argument From Me
Posted in Life, tagged Children, Family, Humor, Hygeine, Marriage, Potty, Urine on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Little Boy: “Mommy, I have to wash my hand.”
My Beautiful And Sexy Wife: “Why?”
My Little Boy: “Because I peed all over it.”
My Prayer Calendar
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Beauty, Family, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Liturgy, God, Marriage, Prayer, War, Belief, Paganism, Reconstructionism, Odin, Gods, Mythology, Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism, Dionysus, Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Hercules, Aphrodite, Goddess, Sex, Neopaganism, Greek Mythology, Venus, Ares, National Guard, Army, Myth, Procrastination, Worship, Sacrifice, Ritual, Bacchus, Dionysos, Military, Hermes, Sunday, Greek Myth, Apollon, Juno, Mars, Artemis, Diana, Infantry, Jupiter, Pan, Theoi, Interfaith Marriage, Home, Jove, Herakles, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Mercury, Norse Polytheism, Hestia, Vesta, Faunus, Wilderness, Wild, Hiking on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taking a suggestion from the now-defunct (but excellent and accessible) Sponde: Hands-On Hellenism website, I decided to put together a personal calendar for prayer and worship. The idea was really to just get started and dive in, rather than to agonize over just the right way to set it all up. I can [...]
Pie And Wine For The Equinox!
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Food, Family, Pie, Art, Music, Paganism, Druidry, Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism, Dionysus, Neopaganism, Greek Mythology, Wine, Holidays, Fruit, Equinox, Mabon, Fall Equinox, Harvest, Festivity, Autumn Equinox on September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I intend to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox with pie and wine tonight. Homemade fruit pie, but not apple, which seems more Samhain appropriate. And a “Hail Dionysus, Lord of the Vine!” or two. Perhaps some music. And hopefully friends and family. But that is all.
Hera The Mother
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Children, Demeter, Divinity, Family, God, Goddess, Godhood, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hera, Juno, Lightning, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Paganism, Polytheism, Prayer, Relationship, Religion, Ritual, Sacrifice, Sex, Spirituality, Venus, Worship on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have thought a great deal about Hera over the past few months, and I must say that I am developing some fairly intense spiritual feelings about her. So intense that it’s like my heart can’t really pin them down. They’re too overwhelming for me to really be able to contain, so it’s like they [...]
God Is A Woman
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Beauty, Birth, Brahman, Death, Divine Feminine, Family, God, Goddess, Hellenic Polytheism, Hinduism, Humanity, Life, Love, Marriage, Meaning, Mormonism, Mysticism, Mythology, Paganisn, Polytheism, Sex, Spirituality, Vedanta on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I feel a much closer connection to the divine feminine than I ever did to the divine masculine, my patriarchal Mormon upbringing notwithstanding. I guess either it just didn’t take, or it just wasn’t true. Or both, probably. I feel an intimacy and closeness with the overwhelmingly feminine divinity of Aphrodite that I have never [...]
Values From The Age Of Aquarius
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Age Of Aquarius, Aquarius, Astrology, Brendan Myers, Counterculture, Crystals, Dreams, Enlightenment, Ethics, Family, Fifth Dimension, Hair, Heritage, History, International Pagan Values Month, Jupiter, Liberalism, Liberation, Morality, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Nature, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, New Age, Paganism, Peace, Reconstructionism, Revelation, Sixties, Spirituality, The Other Side Of Virtue, Theater, Utopia, Values, Virtue, Visions, Wicca on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Note: This is another post for International Pagan Values Month.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
I have been thinking about the post I wrote yesterday on sources for pagan values, and I have realized (partly because of a conversation that [...]
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