30 Days of Paganism: How your faith has helped you in difficult times

It helps about as much as anything else, I guess. Or maybe I’m not defining “difficult times” properly, here. See I tend to think of most of my life as “difficult times”, even when things are good, because I suffer from mental illness and spend much of my time locked in depression and anxiety. So …

30 Days of Paganism: Priest? Clergy? One or both? Neither?

I tend to differentiate between ‘priest’ and ‘clergy’. There’s a venn diagram where they overlap, but I do think they are different roles. Priest/ess For me a priest or priestess is either someone who has been called by the gods (or whatever) to serve Them/dedicated themselves to serving the gods in some capacity or has …

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 …