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Taking confessions again this year!

I’ll be doing the Neyolmelahualiztli (neh-yohl-mel-ah-wah-LEEZ-tlee) again this year as an act of sacred service to Tezcatlipoca, Tlazolteotl, and Tlaltecuhtli.…

community, community service, confession, confessionary, devotional polytheism, gods, neyolmelahualitzli, paganism, polytheism, public service, tezcatlipoca, Tlaltecuhtli, tlazolteotl

The Confessionary is Open for Toxcatl!

The Neyolmelahualiztli (neh-yohl-mel-ah-wah-LEEZ-tlee) has begun! I’ll be leaving the confessionary open for the next 20 days, during my bioregionally-adapted Mexica…

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Unfinished Thoughts

Don’t forget, the Confessionary opens in just a few weeks! 1. Been thinking more on monastic practice and what kinds…

antihumanism, art, contemplative practice, devotional polytheism, greenwashing, monastic, monasticism, nuclear energy, pagan art, paganism, polytheism, spirit work, taboos, testosterone

Ma Huey Tlatlani

O Lord of storms,Chaak, Yopaat, Tlaloc,Lend them Your thunder,The people,For among them are protectors! O Mistress of chaos,Tlazolteotl, Sin-Eater,Lend them…

devotional polytheism, nahuatl, poetry, politics, polytheism, prayer

Negative Space

Every culture, no matter how energetic, loud, and colorful, has room on its margins, in the liminal corners of its…

animism, chaak, contemplation, contemplative practice, devotion, devotional polytheism, gods, meditation, mysticism, paganism, polytheism, spirit work, votary practice

Next Up:

I spent a year with my art Gods, the Twins. I spent a year helping my partner fight for his…

animism, devotional polytheism, initiator spirit, medication, monastic, monasticism, paganism, polytheism, spirit work, testosterone, the devouring, transgender, transition

Multiplicity ⁊ Not Knowing

Originally posted on Cıbear-ḟoraoıs Sneaċta:
[Mildly ranty post, less personal or reflective than my last one, but much less well-thought out…

Thoughts on ‘What Color Is the Sacred?’

This is a book I’ve been wanting to write about since I started reading it. The thesis is exciting, the…

book review, colonialism, color, magic, michael taussig, mysticism, occult, what color is the sacred?, whiteness

Sacred Verses

It took me a while to get through this compendium of poetry by renowned iconographer and priest Ptahmassu Nofra-Uaa, and…

book review, devotional polytheism, gods, paganism, poetry, polytheism, ptahmassu, spirit work, transgender, witchcraft

Our Slippery Earth by Kurly Tlapoyawa: 👎

This post has been edited for clarity now that my angry indignation has run its course, LOL. I’d been looking…

animism, atheism, book review, gods, kurly tlapoyawa, mexican spirituality, mexicayotl, paganism, polytheism

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