Tag: priestesshood
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Witchy Everyday Carry: What’s In My Priestexing Bag
Categories: ArchiveFor years, I carried a small version of a full ritual setup in my bag, just in case I was called upon for an urgent matter such as a hospital visit, death call, or emergency ghostbusting and house blessing service. But I realized that during those sorts of calls, I didn’t seem to need much…
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Even If Your Voice Shakes: Courage in Uncertain Times
Categories: ArchiveI have been out and proud as a Queer person and a Pagan for over twenty years. I couldn’t go back into the closet if I tried – and the thought of trying routinely occurs to me because I need to protect my home, my family, my employment.
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Deferred Maintenance: Rebuilding A Spiritual Practice
Categories: ArchiveOne of the things I had to do as my mind began to recover was to become more aware of the capabilities I have now – at 42 years old – instead of holding myself to the same standards that I did at 32 or even 22 years old.
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The Hippie Witch Life: An Apprenticeship In Retrospect
Categories: ArchiveThere’s a certain glamour about the hippie witch life that the uninitiated gravitate toward. The carefree, commune-dwelling, love-and-peace aesthetic is alluring. In the mind’s eye, the garden is always flourishing, the animals never get sick, the well pump never breaks, and the outside world is always accepting.
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Traditional Wicca, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Process
Categories: ArchiveTraditional Wicca is a priesthood. Initiates are empowered to make direct contact with Deity and become Deity’s agents in the material world. That’s it. That’s the religion.
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The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of the Great Teachers
Categories: ArchiveThe Way, at least as I currently understand it, is a practice that emphasizes the sorts of universal truths that underpin many of the world’s religions and philosophies-of-life: love one another, harm none, honor the divine, exercise compassion, help those in need, defend those who cannot defend themselves, safeguard all children, respect your elders, enjoy…
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Wiccan Priestesshood: Serving the Gods, Preserving the Craft
Categories: ArchiveWiccan priestesshood is a life-long undertaking, which is why it takes time for the proper person to become properly prepared for initiation.
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The Winding Path: A Reflection on My Path as a Priestess
Categories: ArchiveI was a month shy of seventeen years old when I decided I wanted to be a priestess. In my naïveté, I envisioned that it would consist of singing songs to the Goddess and tending to an altar and leading a coven and making special blends of oils and incenses and teaching people who wanted
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In Her Service: Walking the Goddess Walk
Categories: ArchiveTags: priestesshoodI was a month shy of my seventeenth birthday when I decided I wanted to be a priestess. I envisioned leading rituals, working magick to heal people, and teaching starry-eyed seekers about the Mysteries of the Craft. What I did not envision – not at sixteen and not at twenty-six – was the massive amount
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Visibility and Interfaith Work as a Wiccan: How to be Taken Seriously in the Real World
Categories: ArchiveTags: priestesshoodFrom time to time, I’m asked to speak on a panel of representatives of various religions to educate students about the diversity they may encounter in their future professions. Usually, it’s me, a Catholic, a Muslim, a Jew, and an Athiest. And let me tell you, those days are the days I have the worst