Category: Articles
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Empty Womb and Dead Seed: Reconciling Infertility in a Fertility Religion
So much of Wicca is bound up in the idea of fertility — fertility of the land, of the animals, and of humanity. As a religion, we understand this fertility to mean the ongoing survival of the planet and the life that lives on it, but often the first thing that comes to mind when…
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Pagan Prayer: Offerings of Praise, Gratitude, and Hope
Categories: ArticlesI’ve heard people scoff and say they don’t kneel down to their gods, that they stand tall and proud with them. And that’s all well and good. You should have a cordial relationship with your deities, be comfortable around them, be proud to do their work on earth. But don’t you think occasionally you should…
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The Summerland: Understanding the Wiccan Afterlife
Paganism in general isn’t concerned with the afterlife. We know there is a life after death, and another, and another, in the cycle of reincarnation. But Wiccans have the concept of a place of rest between lives, called the Summerland. But what is the Summerland, and how can you rest there and also reincarnate? Body,…
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Don’t Should Yourself: Freeing the Mind and Empowering the Spirit
Categories: ArticlesTags: personal responsibilityI was a little ranty in my last essay. Or rather, I was very ranty but I had a message I was trying to get across. I considered taking it down, reworking it, polishing it up, but then I decided to let it stand because it reflects the truth of what I was feeling when…
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Tired and Oathbound: Filling the Empty Cup
Categories: ArticlesThere are days that I wake up and I am tired in my soul. I feel burnt out and unappreciated and forgotten and ready to give up. I question whether I have the ability to suck it up and keep on going for just one more day. For my students. For my colleagues. For my…