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Pagan Wedding Colors Cheat Sheet
In the last couple of years, there’s been a move away from correspondences in the Tumblr pagan community. I mostly think that’s a good thing. Correspondence lists tend to be oversimplifications and to only highlight a single trait of a given plant, crystal, color, or whatever — and yes, you tend to lose a lot…
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Pagan Wedding Planning (Part 1)
If you’re like the vast majority of pagans, you probably have friends, family, or other people you care about who are not pagan. It’s highly likely that you will have guests at your wedding who do not share your beliefs. We can only hope that our non-pagan loved ones are open-minded, understanding, and supportive of…
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The Great Handfasting Project: Secular Wedding Planning Books
While historical sources about pre-Christian weddings and books written by modern pagans can give you a lot of good ideas for your ceremony, many of them don’t cover the most stressful part of getting married: planning, budgeting, scheduling, and managing a modern wedding. My fiance and I decided in December to move our wedding date…
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The Great Handfasting Project: Pagan Wedding Planning Books
In February, my partner and I will be celebrating our third anniversary. Like many people who have been dating for a while, we’ve decided to get married. Because we’re both pagan, we’ve always known that we wanted a pagan wedding. But because neither of us is Wiccan (I’m a Heathen and he’s a Roman pagan),…
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The Viking Spirit by Daniel McCoy: A Mini-Review
Note: This was originally posted in a reblog of an anonymous ask to @skaldish on Tumblr. The anon had recently purchased this book and asked for help in making sure it wasn’t based on white supremacist misinterpretations. This was actually one of my first books on Heathenry! Like Zan mentioned, it’s an okay resource and…
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Herbalism in Times of Turmoil
I’ve recently returned to my roots (pun intended) in folk herbalism to supplement the work I’m doing with my therapist. It wasn’t an intentional thing — in our current round of EMDR, we’ve uncovered some deeply buried trauma, and bringing that trauma to the surface has shaken the foundations of how I see myself and…
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MY NEW BOOK: Sacred Choice
Are you tired of anti-choice people telling you that your views on abortion have no historical/religious support? Me too. So I wrote a book proving them wrong. “An exploration of the history of contraception and abortion in witchcraft and paganism. This celebration of the history and spirituality of reproductive freedom combines thorough research, reflection, and…
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Witchcraft, Occult, New Age, or Pagan? What’s the difference?
For folks just getting into alternative spirituality, terminology can be confusing. What’s the difference between New Age and pagan? Are all witches pagan? What does occult even mean? And where do my beliefs and practices fit into all that? Truly, you don’t need to label your spiritual practice unless you want to. Labels can sometimes…
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The Black-Eyed Kids as a Modern Fairy Legend
When talking to people who don’t believe in the Good People, one argument I hear a lot is “well if they were real, there would be modern stories about them!” On one hand, there are very much modern stories explicitly about the Good People in countries like Ireland. But I personally suspect that a lot…
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Q+A: Brownie in My House
Question (submitted by Tumblr user @the-shadow-queen-is-here): “Hey! I love your info on the fair folk and I have a few questions. I believe I have one in my house, I assume it’s a brownie. I had this beautiful dream the other night that felt otherworldly, then when I woke up I heard a high pitched…
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