This is inspired by Aisling’s post about a week ago. I took on her challenge and have come up with a list of 10 things that are kind of essential about me. Witch. Lover of justice. Broken. Slytherin. Writer. Stubborn. Mean streak a mile wide and deeper still. Genderqueer. Addictive personality. Superiority complex. This list …
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Immanence
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin That quote may seem rather cliché, especially to many pagans (or anyone who listens to that idiot Wayne Dyer), but it’s always rung true for me on some level. Sure, I am human, and …
The Key
I wear a key around my neck. It rests on a chain next to a silver and gold (or gold and white gold; can’t tell) snake pendant and a gold ring with a small sapphire in it (that has never fit me, so on my necklace it stays). The key itself is silver colored, and …
Eve and Reproductive Rights
Something that a lot of pagans have always associated with fertility is the pomegranate. I’ve been to Beltane rituals that used pomegranate as a symbol of fertility; search “magic associations of pomegranate” and you’ll find several sites attesting to its good fertility magic. Even the New Age health nuts attest to its great fertility powers. …
Being the Morrigan’s godslave…
…is not a little like being in a poly relationship with someone who continually brings broken things –animate or inanimate, doesn’t really matter — back home so She can tinker on them at all hours of the night.
This is Amusing
This is a screencap of four of the 10 spam comments that are currently in my spam filter. Notice anything that links them all together? Yeah. They’re all on that one post. And about 90% of the total amount of spam comments I’ve been receiving since posting that (which, by the way, has gone up …
I am angry. (Trigger Warning)
Trigger Warning: rape. I am a bee head-butting the aggressor; a snake poised to strike; a cat with its ruff all up, pupils gone large, claws extended. I was just upset. Upset as in sort of sad, sort of disappointed. I was just that, just that lower amount of emotion, that lower energy output of …
I used to be a “cool” rape victim. Until I wasn’t anymore.
TRIGGER WARNING. When I was 19, 20, 21 I was okay with rape jokes. I told them frequently. I laughed when others told them. And I often used the word rape to refer to anything but. I had been raped, at this point. I was a victim, survivor, whatever terminology is appropriate. I knew I …
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Justice — it’s not an idle concept. It’s a responsibility.
While I wanted to do a post on Justice for a while, much of this post is inspired by this one, and adds to the argument presented there. TRIGGER WARNING for discussion of rape, abuse, murder, marginalization, etc; do not read the comments in some linked articles unless you have a strong stomach. Witchcraft gives …
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Fear + Action
Fear is under my skin like St. Anthony’s Fire –Onion Girl, Holly Cole I mentioned previously that I live in fear of being alone all the time. This is true. It’s also true that I live in fear of many other things. Fear saturates my life. This is not necessarily a bad thing. While it …