Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off on Yule Ideas
On one of the mailing lists I check randomly, someone had posted requesting ideas for Yule “to recognize the gods, honor my ancestors, reflect on each month in the past year, make oaths, and celebrate”. I offered the following suggestions: *You could pick 12 candles, one for each month of the year. Light one per […]
Filed Under History | Comments Off on Pre-Christian Temple Discovered at Rendlesham, England
The Rendlesham Community Archeology Project has unearthed a 1,400-year-old temple in East Anglia, near Sutton Hoo. It was found as part of the excavation of the royal compound, which is believed to be the royal court described by Bede in Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The area was a center of royal residence and […]
Filed Under Things I Think About | Comments Off on Rachel Pollack, Feminism, and Spirituality
Pollack saw miracles in the world, and she was someone who taught other people to see them. Most famously, she did this through the Tarot; she was a world-renowned expert on the cards, consulted and cited by authors like Alexander Chee and Neil Gaiman. Her book on the Rider-Waite, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, is the […]
Filed Under Devotions, Things I Think About | Comments Off on Heathener Than Thou: Eat Ancestrally
Today in “Heathener Than Thou”, let’s look at the practice some heathens insist one must do if one is a “real” heathen: eat Ancestrally, aka, only eat what a Viking Era Scandinavian would have eaten. Setting aside that “ancestrally”, while technically correct, grates on the ears, let’s look at “eat as your ancestors did”. I’m […]
Filed Under Tarot, Runes, Oracles | Comments Off on Tarot Media Company Winter Holiday Sale!
Pre-Thanksgiving sale? Black Friday? Plaid Saturday? Cyber Monday? That’s too much to think about when you could be thinking about pie! TMC has started our holiday sale today to cover all of those days, and the rest of the year! It’s our year-end gift to you, regardless of which holidays you do (or don’t) celebrate! […]