Admittedly, this is a bit of a hot button topic for me. In the Pagan world, I find a lot of people using the terms “Patron” or “Matron” to refer to a particular god or goddess that they are working closely with. The traditional meaning of patron that I learned is an individual who is…
Our Landlady told us that she was raising the rent – raising it further than we were comfortable paying. So we’re moving. And I really don’t like it. This discomfort is completely aside from the effort of packing, and organizing the moving of utilities and internet, not to mention the extra expense for new security…
One morning, not that long ago, I drew Pertho for my morning divination. Pertho is a bit of a loaded rune. It’s often called the loot cup or the dice cup, and can be considered a rune of luck. But, for me, there is so much more. There is a side of Pertho that is about…
I don’t usually venture into politics on this blog, but I feel that it’s a good day to do so. Today people throughout the US are marching in the Womens’ March – standing up for their rights. There are marches in many different towns throughout the US, and in towns that don’t have organized marches,…
Many times, my job requires me to travel, and that means hotels. I currently do a (mostly) daily practice, and this becomes a lot more challenging when I’m in a hotel. I don’t have access to my altar, or my stash of offerings, or my space. I usually can’t light a candle or incense and…
Over my many years as a self-identified Pagan, I have had the opportunity to work with a number of different ways of protecting ritual spaces. While many Wiccan circles define a firm boundary to the ritual space, there are many other traditions that don’t. Even the traditions that do have the firm boundary sometimes don’t…
A while ago, I made a blanket for charity as part of an offering to Freyja. I asked for something pretty big and it worked out – so something pretty big was returned. So I made the blanket, and then left it out at a train station with a hand towel, a bar of soap…
As I mentioned in my last post, I make a lot of offerings in my daily practice 🙂 Five or six times a week, I make devotional offerings to various Kindreds. Most of the time, I’m making offerings to the gods that I work with more closely, some of the times it’s to my ancestors or…
On Samhain night this year, I took the offerings that I had made over the last season and burned them in a cauldron on my grill. The grill itself is a gas grill, but I was using it for a safe space to burn my offerings. Multiple times a week, I make offerings in my…
My husband and I enjoy watching cartoons – especially those that are designed for adults to enjoy as well as kids. One of the cartoons that we enjoy is Phineas and Ferb by Disney. In the cartoon, there’s a character called “Perry.” Perry is a platypus who is a pet that doubles as a secret…