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Coffee With the Goddess: A Devotional Practice for Busy Pagans
Categories: ArticlesTags: devotional practiceHaving a devotional practice can be challenging, especially if you’re just starting out on the Pagan path or you’ve got a lot of mundane commitments. If you’re new, there may be so many options of things to do that you don’t know which to incorporate first. And everyone has work or family or community commitments…
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The Wiccan Virtues: Ideals from the Charge of the Goddess
It’s been said that Wicca doesn’t have sacred texts. I disagree. While it’s true that Wicca is an experiential religion, relying on one’s personal experience of Deity to define one’s beliefs, it does have sacred texts: Gardner’s original Book of Shadows, Valiente’s Charge of the Goddess, and the bits of sacred writing of early Gardnerians…
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The Vocation of Priestesshood: Teaching Yourself to Serve
Categories: ArticlesPriestesshood is more than having a mature spirituality and a calling. It’s also having the courage and grace to serve others humbly and compassionately knowing that you will never be compensated for your physical, mental, and emotional labor. It’s giving up your plans. It’s giving up your anonymity. It’s being the bad guy sometimes when…
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Understanding the Planetary Hours: What They Are, How to Calculate Them, and Why to Use Them
The planetary hours are an ancient magickal tool that arises from Hellenistic and Babylonian astrology. It operates on the premise that each magickal hour of the day (that is, one-twelfth the time between sunrise and sunset, or sunset and sunrise) is ruled by one of the seven classical planets, and that the energies of this…
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Sumatran Dark Roast, Heavy Whipping Cream, No Sugar
Categories: Creative NonfictionTags: personal experienceSusan had a rule. In the mornings, no one said anything to anybody — not even “good morning” — until after the first cup of coffee was consumed. It was a rule she brought with her from Short Mountain Sanctuary, a Radical Faerie intentional community in Tennessee that she’d been involved with for a couple…