[Content Warning for basically everything.] This post needs some background. First bit of background: I am a descendant of people who survived Nazi Europe. My Oma, a nurse in a hospital that had to keep 50% each of Axis and Ally soldiers at all times, lest they get bombed by either side. My Opa, a …
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30 Days of Paganism: Ethics
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 …
The Morrigan Chose Me…and I chose Her right back
There’s this idea in neo-Pagan or polytheist circles that the gods choose us, we don’t choose them. Sometimes that’s correct — sometimes, yes, the gods do search us out without us needing to reach out first. In that case, They chose us; we didn’t choose Them. But we still can. When I first met the …
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