The beginning of the Summer Solstice is a time when life seems to be flourishing the most in the Northern Hemisphere, I think it’s a good time to reflect on…
Why Paganism?
This is my first post in a while. In ’24 I was going through quite a few personal transitions. I’m happy to say that the muse has returned. I have…
The Tailteann Games and Lughnasadh
One hundred years ago today, the fledgling Irish Free State established the Tailteann Games for the first time in at least eight hundred years. You may not know it from…
How real is the experience of spiritual phenomena?
So, the question of “belief” in Pagan practice has been on my mind a lot in recent months. Many people have claimed to have seen, heard, or felt spiritual phenomena…
Happy belated Imbolc
Happy belated Imbolc! I’m normally a bit more timely in marking my holidays, but this has been a busy week for me. This week I moved to a new apartment…
The great Christmas letdown–consequences of a perverse marriage between spirituality and commerce
It’s fitting that both the day after Christmas and the day after New Year’s fall on a Tuesday this year. Tuesday is an appropriate day to wake up to after…
The promise of the Winter Solstice
Modern humans in the Christian-dominated Western world have backloaded all of their spiritual celebration energy into the months of November and December. This can make December in particular both a…
Recreating a tattoo from the “Siberian Ice Maiden?” I’m not so sure about that.
There has been a lot of buzz about the frozen body of a 2,500 year old Pazyryk woman, known popularly as the “Siberian Ice Maiden.” She was mummified and then…
The Samhain celebrated by the ancient Celts
Let us welcome the Celtic fire holiday of Samhain! Forms of this ancient Celtic festival have spread around the world, particularly with Halloween. Such popularity might be seen as both…
A Samhain New Year? It actually makes sense
What if I told you that an argument could be made that the time around Samhain is one of the most natural times of year to mark the new year?…