Abuse. Trauma. Healing via Nature and the Old Gods

Yearly Archives: 2015

20 years is a long time. A lot of indoctrination. Three times a week, every week, sitting in church having those beliefs reinforced -its quite effective. So how did I finally work up the nerve to leave? It was a gradual process. For a good year or more I just […]

What Finally Made Me Leave The UPC

March 27, 2015 in My UPC Experience / The Christian Cult / Trauma and Recovery by admin

I look back now at my time in fundamentalist Christianity, and mostly I think… “What the hell was I thinking??” Case in point: how the Bible treats women. This isn’t unique to the UPC, but they definitely go right along with it. Even though as they do, they try to […]

Christianity and Women

March 26, 2015 in The Christian Cult by admin

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The United Pentecostal Church is a Christian organization with a very unique doctrine. I imagine I’ll get visitors here who are very familiar with it, and some who’ve never heard of it so I’ll explain it here. The UPC believes in the “Oneness” of God. Whereas most of Christianity believes […]

What Is The United Pentecostal Church?

March 25, 2015 in My UPC Experience / The Christian Cult by admin

Well, I’ve gone and done it now. The very title of this article is more blasphemous than dancing naked under a full moon with a snake. Or voting democrat. Or both. It’s one of the core tenets of right-wing Christianity that the United States was founded by Godly Christian Men, […]

The US Was NOT Founded On Christianity

March 24, 2015 in Recovering Right Winger by admin

Poor Bobby Bouche. In the movie, “Waterboy,” his Mama kept him firmly under her thumb by telling him everything in the world – from women to “foosball” to college – was the devil. She’s supposed to be a caricature, but part of what makes her performance so funny is the […]

Is That Satanic?

March 24, 2015 in My Pagan Path / The Christian Cult by admin

New Years Day I went back to the park by the river. I think perhaps a reason it was so magickal back in the fall is that it seems to be the perfect place for faeries. Granted, I don’t know a lot about faeries. I’d like to learn. But I […]

Nature Trip: Are There Faeries Here?

March 24, 2015 in My Pagan Path by admin

Today, the Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill that would prevent state and local governments from “substantially burdening” a person’s exercise of religion unless the government can prove it has a compelling interest and is doing so in the least restrictive means. In other words, give fundamentalist Christian business owners […]

Indiana Passes “Religious Freedom” Act

March 23, 2015 in Recovering Right Winger by admin

I have not dyed eggs since I was a kid. It wasn’t something I did with my own children because in our uber-conservative Christian home, Easter eggs were just too pagan. Delicious irony, huh? This year, I dyed eggs. I did it all by myself. I only dyed 3 of […]

My First Ostara

March 23, 2015 in My Pagan Path / Pagan Basics by admin

Gotta be honest. After my Yule experience, I was counting the days till the next sabbat. But I didn’t really “get” Imbolc. I mean.. Yule makes total sense. The longest night is over, when dawn comes the light is now back, and will continue to grow every day. But what […]

My First Imbolc

March 22, 2015 in My Pagan Path / Pagan Basics by admin

In honor of Ostara this week, I’m going back and revisiting my first two Sabbats. And the absolute best so far was definitely Yule. Leading up, I’d not yet mentioned anything pagan to my kids. But I had way more excitement about putting up the “Christmas” decorations this year, because […]

My First Yule

March 21, 2015 in My Pagan Path / Pagan Basics by admin

This is a huge week astrologically. Tomorrow is Ostara – the Spring Equinox. It’s also the New Moon – a supermoon to boot. And in parts of Europe and the North Pole there is a total solar eclipse. So I’ve been trying to research all week to really understand the […]

New Moon, Ostara and Eclipse

March 20, 2015 in My Pagan Path tagged astrology / eclipse / equinox / new moon / ostara / spring by admin

By the end of November 2014, fall was in full swing in my town. I took a trip to another nearby park, this one has a very large nature trail and runs along a larger river. As soon as I stepped into the woods, I was enchanted. The smell of […]

Nature Trip: The Magickal Forest

March 19, 2015 in My Pagan Path by admin