• Internet Headaches

    Internet was supposed to be installed today. I got a call saying I needed to call them back because there was a problem, and just then my phone signal went out for no discernible reason. That happens sometimes out in the boonies. So I had to  drive to the nearby town (not the big one,…

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  • New Prayer Cards

    Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: The following prayer cards will shortly be available:  Metis by Grace Palmer (part of the Mother’s Prayer Card Series) Ninlil by Basil Blake Ninshubur by Basil Blake

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  • January GMC

    The Gods for January’s GMC from the Neos Alexandria pantheon are Ammon and Aphrodite. I’m rolling over Idunna into January. I’ve been so busy, I have not been keeping up with some things that I should have been. SIGH. Life is fucking brutal sometimes. I just want to write, worship, grow food, and raise animals.…

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  • Below is a picture of the woodburning stove. I took it with the door open so you can see the fire. The wall behind it is covered with sheet metal for safety (it was actually left over from some of our summer projects, which I referred to in this post). The sheet metal was something else…

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  • Our close friends Sarah* and Ben* have been trying to get the money together to get out here for a while, since the middle of November. They finally got here around the 14h of December or so. We’ve known Ben* since we were all teenagers. They are pretty much family at this point, but the…

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  • A Solstice Story

    Burning Helios, the All-Seeing Sun, Is dead. He sleeps in the arms of Persephone this night. The cold winds blow tonight. The world belongs to Nyx, primordial Mother Night, Who existed before even Gaia was born. The cold winds howl, And Odin mounts His eight-legged steed, To lead the Wild Hunt, screaming through the darkness…

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  • Originally posted on Wyrd Designs: Most Pagans are quite familiar with the fact that many of the so-called ‘Christmas’ traditions have their origins from ancient polytheistic cultures and their festivities such as Saturnalia, Yule etc. This even includes Santa Claus. http://wp.me/p6Lntn-5P

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  •   The following is a selection of the daily Goddess-centered exercises and rituals from Patricia Telesco’s “365 Goddess: a Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Goddess”. My festival calendar is already quite crowded, so I won’t be practicing all of these, but I picked the ones that fit most with the theme…

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  • Ptolemy IV Philopater

    It’s high time I continued posting the series about the Ptolemies. I’ve gotten distracted posting about so many other subjects! Ptolemy IV Philopater Excerpted from Olympos in Egypt   Ptolemy IV was born in 245 or 244 BCE. Already as a young man he was being called Philopater, “He who loves his father”. I couldn’t…

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  • Merry Yule

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