A Pagan Home – part 2

Last month I made a post entitled “A Pagan Home for Everyone” which was mainly floating questions about the position of modern Pagan religions with respect to serving a people as a whole, being accessible to all, and engaging in wider and deeper ethical questions about our identity and the way we practice and organize. [...]

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a Pagan home for everyone

Paganism has grown and developed over time to accommodate groups large and small, with particular interests and wants, often as a countercultural movement, sometimes “progressive” or modernizing and sometimes “conservative”, sometimes a mixture of the two, but rarely with the need to actually be a representative, accessible, equable religion for all people. And as people’s [...]

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your bio-deity just aint doing it

I’ve heard some pretty sweeping put downs of other people’s gods from some of my peers over the years. Blah blah old grey bearded man in the sky, how ridiculous. Abstract, disembodied ghost etc. It’s just a patriarchal man deified. A controlling talking head cut off from Nature and the world. Some of it is a line [...]

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How many ways led here?

Sometimes we forget where we’ve been. Sometimes we forget what led here, and sometimes we rewrite our histories. We selectively miss out stuff, and join up the dots to make what is actually a different picture. With something as varied as Paganism you might say it’s almost unavoidable, but it can be a real loss. [...]

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Pagan transphobia – no, you can’t pretend it’s hip anymore

I think this has been a kinda heady week on the Pagan blogosphere if you’re interested in LGBT issues. The Wild Hunt blog reported a controversy at PantheaCon this year. This revolved around a ritual dedicated to Lilith, which due to miscommunication was not advertised as exclusive to women, and further more to “ciswomen” (women [...]

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Gods, goods and shadows

The other night we were watching “True Blood” on TV, a series we really like. As part of that episode two of the characters take part in a “Wiccan” ritual in which they call on the “Great Mother”. One of them mentions that really she doesn’t have an easy time with the whole mother thing, [...]

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my kind of religion

A religion of love, a religion of peace, a religion of healing, a religion of sensuality, a religion of heart, a religion of equality, a religion of Nature, a religion of the home, a religion of soul, a religion without dogmas. I used to be very into “the search”, and into studying the teachings of [...]

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What it comes down to

Paganism and Witchcraft are the terms attached to my spiritual path, even if I very much doubt that I am a “typical” Pagan or Witch. There’s a lot that I see in modern Paganism that doesn’t necessarily represent me that accurately, some of it silly and some of it being more substantial, some of it style [...]

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Black is Beautiful

As anyone reading my blog will know, me and my husband are neopagan Witches, and we have a God with horns, a God we love very much. I view modern Witchcraft as a modern spirituality movement, though people used to think that it was a survival of an underground pre-Christian European religion. However, I am [...]

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Secular – not unspiritual

Sometimes I hear Pagan folks in the UK talk about recognition of Paganism as a religion, and hey this is a great idea. But sometimes when I hear people talk, it’s like they’re hoping for a position parallel to the big, mainstream, organised religions. And you know what, they then start vying for who can [...]

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