I have decided to celebrate Samhainn–opening my year as a Druid Apprentice–with a rite honoring Demeter, Persephone, and Hades. It seems appropriate since not only is Samhainn traditionally a time to celebrate the dead, when the gates of the underworlds are thrown open and the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the [...]
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Struggling With Samhainn
Posted in Spirituality, tagged ADF, Alcohol, Ancient Order of Druids in America, AODA, Apples, Autumn, Celebration, Celtic New Year, Ceres, Creativity, Cross-Quarter Days, Death, Druidry, Earth, Eleusinian Mysteries, Fall, Geocities, God, Goddess, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hades, Halloween, Harvest, Hellenic Polytheism, Immortality, Initiation, Internet, Jaegermeister, Life, Liturgy, Marriage, Motherhood, Mystery Religion, Mystery Rite, Myth, Mythology, Nature, Neopaganism, New Eleusinian Mysteries, New Year, Paganism, Persephone, Plants, Pluto, Polytheism, Prayer, Proserpine, Religion, Rite, Ritual, Samhain, Samhainn, Samhuinn, Spirituality, Spring, Sunday, Theism, Underworld, Wheel of the Year, Winter on October 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
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 Family, Marriage, Humor, Children, Hygeine, Urine, Potty 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 Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Army, Artemis, Bacchus, Beauty, Belief, Christianity, Diana, Dionysos, Dionysus, Family, Faunus, Friday, God, Goddess, Gods, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hera, Herakles, Hercules, Hermes, Hestia, Hiking, Home, Infantry, Interfaith Marriage, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Liturgy, Marriage, Mars, Mercury, Military, Monday, Myth, Mythology, National Guard, Neopaganism, Norse Polytheism, Odin, Paganism, Pan, Polytheism, Prayer, Procrastination, Reconstructionism, Religion, Ritual, Sacrifice, Saturday, Sex, Spirituality, Sunday, Theoi, Thursday, Tuesday, Venus, Vesta, War, Wednesday, Wild, Wilderness, Worship, Zeus 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 [...]
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 [...]
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