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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…
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Pagan Monasticism: Dreaming of Community
Categories: ArticlesTags: pagan monasticismAs a child I was fascinated with Gregorian chants. I thought it was so cool that there were people who dressed in robes and sang all day. Now, of course, I realize that there’s far more to the monastic life than that, but I can’t help but want to capture that experience of ordered and…
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The Vocation of Priestesshood: Discerning a Clergy Calling
Categories: ArticlesTags: priestesshoodIn Wicca, it seems like everyone wants to be the High Priestess. There’s a level of prestige implied in the title, harkening back to The Mists of Avalon and Vivienne with her commanding presence as she ruled benevolently over the Holy Isle. Some people are more impressed with the title than they are with anything…