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I promised myself I’d never do this again. Yet here I am, sneaking away in another room while my UPC-church member husband is sleeping in the next to update this blog. He’s home on vacation from contracting work overseas. It’s been a year since he’s been here, and during that […]

Hiding In Silence

September 13, 2015 in My Pagan Path by admin

So I haven’t darkened the door of my local UPC in over two years. There’s no way I’ll ever go back. Yet for some reason, at least half of the people on my Facebook friends list were church people. They’ve been dropping off steadily over the past few months, especially since […]

Finally Cutting Ties With My Former Churchmates

July 19, 2015 in My Pagan Path / My UPC Experience tagged batshit crazy / christianity / christians / hypocrisy / intolerance / United Pentecostal Church / UPC by admin

Mead – the drink of the Gods. Ancient Celtic lore has a river of mead running through the middle of paradise, and the great poet Taliesin wrote songs about it. It’s supposed to increase fertility and virility, even be an aphrodisiac. Celtic traditions of drinking a honey wine every day […]

Making Midsummer Mead

June 22, 2015 in Garden Magic tagged celtic / folklore / mead / Midsummer / Taliesin by admin

Ok this is completely baffling. As part of my Midsummer celebration last night, I left an offering at sundown for the fairies near my garden. I baked a cake for Aine, the Celtic Sun Goddess and Fairy Queen who is celebrated at Midsummer, and left a huge slice of it […]

Fairy Freakout

June 22, 2015 in Garden Magic tagged Aine / fairies / Fey / Litha / Midsummer / Offering by admin

Happy, glorious Midsummer Day! It didn’t feel so happy at 5AM when I woke up after less than 4 hours of sleep. I had thought of having a bonfire to greet the sun this morning, but my 5AM self vetoed that idea. In fact, it made a very good case […]

Midsummer Sunrise

June 21, 2015 in My Pagan Path tagged abundance / Aine / Litha / Midsummer / paganism / solstice / sun / sunrise by admin

Last night was the new moon, and I was finally able to dedicate my new garden area. I started with an herb bath – lavender, rose, rosemary and peppermint. All for purification and healing. I’ve had some health issues as well as the tendon injury that I want resolved. I […]

New Moon Dedication

June 17, 2015 in Garden Magic / My Pagan Path / Pagan Basics by admin

In college, Western Civilization 101 pulled the rug of faith right out from under me. Growing up in the Bible Belt, I’d been indoctrinated almost by osmosis. It seemed obvious to me that since Adam and Eve had a one-on-one with Yahweh from the very beginnings of human history (since that […]

Everything We’ve Been Taught About The Origins Of Civilization May ...

June 16, 2015 in My Pagan Path tagged Archaeoastronomy / archaeology / astronomy / christianity / history / megalith / Newgrange / prehistory / solstice / Stonehenge by admin

This is a first for me – a product review. So let me say up front that the Sabbat Box people have no idea I’m doing this, and I paid for my box just like anyone else. Sabbat Box is a subscription box for Pagans, delivering unique Wiccan supplies & Pagan […]

Sabbat Box Review

June 10, 2015 in My Pagan Path tagged celtic / Litha / magic / Midsummer / paganism / ritual / sabbats / Summer Solstice by admin

Ugh. I worked all weekend on my garden out front, really pushed myself in the heat to get it finished. I really wanted to dedicate it last night during the full moon. Well, it’s finished. It’s wonderful. And I was in bed, knocked out on flu meds when I should […]

Ritual Space Completed; Full Moon Dedication A Bust

June 3, 2015 in Garden Magic / Pagan Basics tagged cucumber / fairies / flowers / gardening / herbs / pepper / rabbit / roses / spring / squirrel / tomato / wildlife by admin

It was recently pointed out to me that this blog has a bit of an attitude. Someone whose work I respect mentioned that they are a Christian, yet they don’t shove their beliefs down the throats of others. They don’t flip out over the idea of a wedding cake for […]

Christians vs The Christian Right

May 29, 2015 in My Pagan Path / The Christian Cult by admin

It can get a bit tricky to practice Pagan rituals when you are not fully “out of the broom closet” to your family. My kids (both teens who somewhat know what I’m into now) are the only ones here for the most part as the hubs (still a fundamentalist Christian […]

Creating My Ritual Space

May 21, 2015 in Garden Magic / My Pagan Path / Pagan Basics tagged gardening / healing / magic / paganism / ritual / spring by admin

I stumbled across a brilliant article on Patheos today. It’s a repost, but the first time I’m seeing it. The title is, “I Worship Satan And You Do Too.” I love this article because it perfectly explains the way Evangelicals think when it comes to … well anybody but their […]

No, I Do Not Worship Satan

May 18, 2015 in My Pagan Path by admin