This is actually a kind of raw topic for me right now, so I’m going to try to be as brief as possible on it. I can sum up my ethics thusly: Be excellent to each other. Don’t be a dick. Consent matters; boundaries matter. Protect your own. These can contradict each other, and do …
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30 Days of Paganism: Paganism and major life events
This post’s topic can really be parsed down into “How do your religion and major life events intersect?” Which is a fair question; most mainstream religions have things in place for major life events. In many pagan religions there’s a lot of bootstrapping, of figuring out your own path, of deciding what major life events …
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30 Days of Paganism: Other paths I’ve explored
This should be a pretty short post. I’ve explored and learned about many other religions, but very few have I looked at with the actual intent of going further than just “studying because I’m interested”. I’ve taken religion classes and done my own studying of other religions. But honestly, I haven’t really strayed from some …
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30 Days of Paganism: Paganism and my relationship
Ogre was raised by a woman who was trained in the Gardnerian line of Wicca and is very involved in the local pagan scene. He’s spent his life involved in pagan events of some stripe or another, so there were zero problems in his accepting my paganism when we started dating. In fact, we met at …
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30 Days of Paganism: Paganism and my family/friends
I’ve already talked about this a lot in my previous posts, but I’ll revisit it. I was raised pagan, basically, with a Buddhist mom who was friendly to more pagan-y things, and a friend of hers I called Auntie M. who introduced me to goddess spirituality and empathic healing and oracle reading, and gifted me …
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30 Days of Paganism: Community
I have reached a stage in my life where I am incredibly interested and concerned in/with building community. I’m getting married in a few months (terrifying); we’ll be having kids in a few years (even scarier); we’re settling down (whaaaat). What keeps coming to mind is the phrase “It takes a village” in reference to …
30 Days of Paganism: My ways of worship
You are the hole in my head You are the space in my bed You are the silence in between What I thought and what I said You are the night time fear You are the morning when it’s clear When it’s over you’re the start You’re my head, you’re my heart No Light, No …
30 Days of Paganism: The meaning of terms like “earth-based” and what they mean to this path
Ah, this old chestnut. The idea of pagan religions all being “earth-based” is actually a pretty persistent myth. As in, it’s not true, yet it’s the thing that comes up most often when people are trying to explain paganism to the layman. Of course, you need to actually examine what people mean when they say …
30 Days of Paganism: On finding a pantheon
Honestly…I didn’t really set out to find a pantheon. Ok, well, I did. But those searches became dead ends. At first I thought I might go Hellenic, but then I didn’t, and gave up on that path — until the Hellenic gods came into my life and were like HELLO, CAN WE BE PART OF …
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30 Days of Paganism: Pantheon — Otherfaith
My relationship with the Otherfaith and the gods of that faith is still new, budding. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, as much as I can, and trying to understand things. It’s slow going, mostly because I am very tired these days and the day job has sucked away most of my time and …
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