Stepping Back

I go through cycles of engagement, especially where I find someplace new to explore. I dive in, test the waters, see what the culture is, get a bead on the consensus, the style of engagement, the quality of discussion. Sometimes it really works out, sometimes I only find I want to stay a little while. …

Repost: Sale on the Girls Underground Story Oracle — A Forest Door

A friend of mine and a practitioner of many years who've I've looked up to has a sale going on this month for the narrative-based oracle deck she created. Be sure to grab one! 20% off through the month of September! More info here. via Sale on the Girls Underground Story Oracle — A Forest Door

Itzlacoliuhqui

I hate having to admit when things happen because of simple internet searches. But sometimes they do. I was curious to see if the Mexica had any gods of snow and winter, as ours is fast approaching here in Canada, and as it turns out they did. Also, as it turns out, I was struck …

Mental Injury, Not Mental Illness

I don't think that the modern framing of neurodiversity and emotional disturbance is useful. Like, at all. It's like applying basic first aid to a severed leg and thinking you'll be OK to go to work next week. As a "mentally ill" person myself, reading people talk about how "everyone should go to therapy" raises …

A Scattering of Thoughts

A customer came in the other day and told me about a book I might get around to reading while I'm off work for 3 weeks. He's a longtime regular of the coop, and heads a local emergency food initiative that works with us to secure a lot of staples for their family food hampers. …

Russel Means on Marxism

Even when I identified as an anarchist, I bristled at Marxism. It seemed to be something of a philosophy for shades: dead words describing a dead world. From what little I managed to choke down, pretending to "broadly agree" with it for the sake of sharing space with anti-capitalists, none of it really matched how …

Ancestor Work part 6: Duty, Sacrifice, and Gendered Expectation

Since starting this series, both my husband and I have been observing a rather insane density of sychronicities in going about our day-to-day lives. I haven't yet divined on it so that I can focus on building up the work as I feel I need to in these still-early stages, but it's become painfully obvious that this …

New Cult Image In the Works

This will not be a digital piece, but this is the first layout of the painting as I've envisioned it. It combines elements from all my previous icons and images, and will be introducing new ones as well. Work will probably be done with handmade casein paint and quality artist pigments (hopefully I can incorporate …

The Cudgel

The first thing I do when penning a new blog post is to title it. I declare my subject, and the flavor of that subject, before actually doing any writing. I make a leap of faith that my title will be good and sufficient in introducing ideas that I have not yet organized, and then …

Advice for Newcomers to Polytheism

A while ago I participated in a reddit thread that asked a simple question: what advice would I give to anyone new to paganism or polytheism? I posted a short list of a few things I feel are universal truisms that a brand new practitioner might not have gotten a chance to think about yet, …