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 »
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 [...]
The Lizard King Can Do Anything
Posted in Music, Spirituality, tagged Alcohol, Aldous Huxley, Bacchae, Bacchus, Catharsis, Chaos, Church, Classic Rock, Cult, Danny Sugerman, Delia Morgan, Dionysian, Dionysos, Dionysus, Drama, Ecstasy, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Entheogen, Euripides, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hero, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Jim Morrison, Magic, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Nietzche, Olympus, Paganism, Pan, Paris, Patricia Kennealy, Persephone, Philosophy, Polytheism, Proserpine, Ray Manzarek, Religion, Ritual, Rock, Rock and Roll, Sacrifice, Shaman, Shamanism, Shrine, Snakes, Spirituality, Symbolism, The Bacchae, The Doors, The Golden Bough, Theater, Theatre, TV, Violence, Vision, Wicca, Wine, Worship on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I came across a pretty cool essay on Jim Morrison and Dionysus, and the pagan spiritual implications of Morrison’s life, music, philosophy, and his unique and fascinating madness. It gets a little closer to what I was trying to write a few days ago about the Lizard King. With all due respect and [...]
Worship And The Pagan Gods
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Christianity, Church, God, Goddess, Gods, Greco-Roman Polytheism, Greek Mythology, Heavenly Father, Hellenic Polytheism, Holy Ghost, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kharis, Mormonism, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopagan, Neopaganism, Pagan, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion, Spirituality, Worship on September 7, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I was a faithful Mormon for nearly three decades, and while I definitely busied myself spiritually, and tried to be close to Heavenly Father, I never actually wanted to worship him. Worship in Mormonism is problematic anyway: in my experience Mormonism is much more about trying to experience certain things, trying to feel the Holy [...]
Hera The Mother
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Family, Spirituality, Religion, God, Marriage, Prayer, Paganism, Mythology, Children, Love, Polytheism, Hellenic Polytheism, Divinity, Demeter, Hera, Aphrodite, Goddess, Sex, Neopaganism, Greek Mythology, Venus, Relationship, Myth, Worship, Sacrifice, Ritual, Motherhood, Greek Myth, Juno, Godhood, Lightning 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 [...]
Ocean Goddess
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Beach, God, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Land, Liminality, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Ocean, Paganism, Polytheism, Poseidon, Prayer, Ritual, Sea, Sky, Spirituality on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am looking out over the Atlantic from Key Largo, with the morning sun playing brilliantly over the waves, glittering like a sea of soft jewels, and the experience is profound. I am keenly aware that the sea is Poseidon’s realm, and that he has power over and a presence in all places where the [...]
I’m Bananas For Dionysus
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Bacchus, Bananas, Christianity, Dionysus, Evolution, Fruit, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Kirk Cameron, Male, Male Sexuality, Mythology, Paganism, Penis, Phallic Symbol, Phallus, Polytheism, Ray Comfort, Ritual, Sex, Sexuality, Symbolism, Vegetation, Wine on July 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
It occured to me today that, although I assume they were unknown to the ancient Greeks, bananas are probably the perfect ritual food for Dionysus.
Fruit in general is appropriate because Dionysus is a god of vegetation, fertility, and growing things, and fruit is not only literally the product of Dionysus’s realm, but it is also [...]
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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