To celebrate the harvest, we're going to make pesto out of our back yard and bake some bread.

But I am mostly celebrating today because, as of today, I have health insurance!!! SQUEE!!! What a wonderful thing to harvest on the harvest holiday, huh?

I have finished my essay for my mother that I promised I would post. I emailed it to her, and I'm a bit nervous about what her response will be, but I'm sure I won't get it at least for a few more days.

( I believe... )

At the end of my 12 days of Yule post, I said that I always have things happen when I leave Philadelphia and I didn't know if it was the place or the change that was what was opening doors ( Read more... )

I'm coming up on my third anniversary as a Pagan ( Read more... )

I thought that since there is so little written about Sjofn I would go ahead and share some of my UPGs about her.

Other than the extremely spotty mentions of her in the Eddas as "she who turns the mind to love," the only thing I've really read about Sjofn is a few pages in Alice Karlsdottir's book Magic of the Norse Goddesses. The book basically ( Read more... )

So I had a revelation recently that my religion and my dancing are entirely inseparable. Once I became a heathen, my dancing began to get really good. That was the exact same moment I moved from dancing from a purely technical place to actually being able to really dance. Plus my dancing is for Freyja and it's all so interconnected with her that I ( Read more... )

Ever since moving, my religion has kind of fallen by the wayside. Which is okay. I told myself I could have the summer off of working really hard on my religion so that I could have some time to get my physical life in order, which I still haven't really done. I still need to get a paying-the-bills kind of job. Which sucks royally considering I've ( Read more... )

We spent my entire Anthropology of Religion class today talking about piety, and it's gotten me thinking about what the word means for me in my own life.

I found it a bit frustrating trying to talk about piety with a classroomful of people who really only have experience with Abrahamic religions, and who are unsure they personally know anyone they ( Read more... )

I finally got around to bringing up an issue I've been having all throughout this class today: that Anthropologists invariably study religion with the assumption that it is false. They are always trying to explain away religious phenomena, or explain away why people believe things and completely dismiss any of the evidence (of whatever kind) the ( Read more... )

A month ago, I made for myself a new ritual schedule because having a single weekly ritual in which to do everything and honor every deity wasn't working. I wasn't doing it because it was requiring me to set aside too big of a chunk of time all at once, every week ( Read more... )