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 »
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 [...]
An Omen?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal, Athena, Athletics, Civilization, Conversion, Goddess, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hermes, Impiety, Mercury, Minerva, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Nike, Omen, Owl, Paganism, Piety, Polytheism, Prayer, Religion, Running, Sacrifice, Wisdom on October 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
My belief in the gods is based largely on two things: 1. I find them compelling enough to believe in, and 2. I have experienced their presence, existence, and sometimes even immanence. Not so with Athena. Of all of the major Hellenic gods, Athena has just never seemed that real to me. [...]
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 [...]
Pie And Wine For The Equinox!
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Art, Autumn Equinox, Dionysus, Druidry, Equinox, Fall Equinox, Family, Festivity, Food, Fruit, Greek Mythology, Harvest, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Holidays, Mabon, Music, Neopaganism, Paganism, Pie, Polytheism, Wine 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.
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 [...]
The Blue Bus Is Calling Us
Posted in Music, Spirituality, tagged Afterlife, Art, Bacchus, Black Magic, Death, Dionysian, Dionysus, Ecstasy, Elysium, God, Gods, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hades, Hellenic Polytheism, Intoxication, Jim Morrison, Liberation, Magic, Magick, Music, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Nietzche, Paganism, Polytheism, Power, Prophet, Rebellion, Rebirth, Rock and Roll, Shaman, Shamanism, Spirit, Spirituality, The Doors, The End on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been tossing around this idea for awhile, but haven’t written much about it because I haven’t really done the research to write something good, something that will capture the idea that is looming in my head. But I want to jot down the idea now. Later on I will flesh it [...]
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 [...]
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