[Poseidon] Domatites – a pagan blog project post

Hestia, in the high dwellings of all, both deathless gods and men who walk on earth, you have gained an everlasting abode and highest honour: glorious is your portion and your right. For without you mortals hold no banquet,--where one does not duly pour sweet wine in offering to Hestia both first and last ....

Devoted – a pagan blog project post

Been reading some posts about devotional work around the blogosphere of late -- not all of them by any means, because there is not time, and because I stay away from the ones that I know are going to push buttons. Because it's me, I think of what I've read, and I think of the...

Celebrating Your Center . . .

I'm struggling with this, because I want very much to talk about it, but I also don't know that I can do half as good of a job as Caer with her second post to her Growing Devotions series (go check them all out, if you haven't! Fantastic material!) The series, and that post in...

Compassion, revisited — a Pagan Blog Project post

I covered compassion, or what compassion looks like on my particular path, back in 2012, but with compassion being such a crucial part of my path, I decided, why not take another look at it? In rereading that post, I realized that in the course of two years, some things had changed within, and while...

Belonging to two gods — or, Blending

This might be a problem that those outside of Recon-inspired traditions may not face. The folks I know who are more Witchcraft and Wiccan-bent do not seem to struggle with this, even when they are also hard polytheists. What is "this"? Poseidon entered my life before I'd found a particular tradition that spoke to me....

Posts I’ve been enjoying, and maybe you will too!

The last few weeks I've been getting caught up on some things set aside while I dealt with illness and sleeplessness (a sleepy Jo is a cranky Jo. Poor Beth). I'm still playing catch up, particularly now with writing projects, and I'm going to focus less on catching up and more on just getting back...

Back to Basics

There's this cycle that my spiritual life takes. The bare bones, when I'm practicing the way that is ideal to me, looks a bit like this: I wake up in the morning and set tea water to boil. While it's boiling, I stand before my shrine, light a candle, and say my morning prayers. Depending...

Acedia – a pagan blog project post

I am a mystic. I'm pagan, I'm a polytheist, I'm a devotee to Poseidon, to Odin. I'm an author. I'm many things, but at the heart of it all, I'm a mystic. Due to the influence of the monotheistic religions within the west for the past few thousand years, a huge amount of the language...

A is for [Poseidon] Asphaleios

Going into 2014, I decided: I want to be a bit more focused in my thoughts, and my religious writing, and so on. This will last until it becomes stifling to the process, as it frequently does, but for right now I'm going with it. Due to this, I'm taking the opportunity to write in...