I can feel the Sun, our beautiful star, generating something tangible. There's an energy, as thick as a pool to swim in, of leading up to something. And every year, I'm convinced that moment - that special anticipated thing - is the Lion's Gate.
How I Named the God Who Visited My Dream Space
Atum, the self-created god of Before-Time, came into my life by reaching out to me in a dream. This is by no means uncommon; many pagans experience the divine or Spirit communication through dreams, and that often leads us to question and wonder at what we witnessed. Very often, we can sense that the Being…
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Magickal Writing Prompts to Connect With Pagan Deities
I frequent pagan forums and social media circles, and often see the same question repeated again and again - often desperately: Is (x) a sign from (y)? Opening ourselves up to metaphysical spiritual belief in the age of science is hard. It's easy to explain to someone that you walked away from organized religion, even…
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Salmon Bodies
flash fiction We go upstream, against the flow of salmon bodies throwing themselves on the rocks. They are spawning in spite of the ruins. Resilience was something I learned first from my mother and my father, through her table loom and his greenhouse. I learn it again here, in the stench of their bodies. Their…
Summer is a bandage and I welcome her ruthless healing
The last two seasons have had me swept up in their rainy days. When it snowed, so did I. When the sky poured water on to the Earth, I let mine flow too. None of us are strangers to sadness and I didn’t expect summer to taste as sweet as it does, didn’t expect…
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The Underworld of Inanna and Ereshkigal
Her name literally means “Queen of the Great Earth.” Maybe you’ve come across her before as Allat or Irkalla, the latter of which is the literal name for the Underworld. Ereshkigal is the dark sister of much more popular goddess Inanna. While Inanna is associated with the planet Venus and rules over love, sex,…
Alaskan Salt
I have always liked the feeling of being cradled by mountains. This is something I have told you, when I was frightened in a ceaselessly flat desert, but this is something you have forgotten. It is summer. I find that I also like the feeling of night that isn’t night, when below is illuminated by a…
Woodland Temple
Pagan temples are timeworn forests, secluded gardens, sun-kissed seashores and emerald pastures. — Freya Turrill
