This call for some sense of common purpose and an end to the bitter divisiveness and petty infighting found within the broader polytheistic community should not be missed. While the pain the authoress clearly feels at the self-destructive behavior she see’s in our community is sharp poignant throughout, she also presents some good constructive ideas for moving forward.
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If you read Del’s post on this topic, this follow-up/response/companion piece is a must-read. If you *haven’t* read Del’s recent post, it doesn’t *really* matter which you read first or second, but read them both. This shit is important, maybe the most important thing(s) about the broader spirit-work world that I’ve seen written in the past year.
Del has written a challenging and beautiful post about authenticity in our own experiences of the divine and the spiritual, through the lens of a powerful and at times problematic trend in the spirit work world. You may or may not agree with everything he says (for the record, I do), but it’s worth the read regardless.
I can’t lie: some of us old, crotchety spirit workers and godspouses find a lot of the blogs from new Loki’s wives kind of annoying.
It’s not a nice or kind thing to say, but it’s true. I find myself in at least three or four conversations a week where someone – a Lokean, a Godspouse, a Spirit Worker, or just some random person with too much time on their hands, reading Tumblr – comes to me to gripe, ask mean questions about, or even just to point and laugh at some Loki’s Spouses’ blog.
For starters, it gets under many craws (including my own) that so many of these starry-eyed lovers are young, cisgender women. It has been pointed out in many different ways how this is potentially damaging to the efforts to see Lokeans taken more seriously by the greater Heathen/Asatru, and even the larger Pagan demographic. When…
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Easily one of the more moving and powerful things about ancestor Work and worship that I’ve read in a very long time.
My thanks to Sannion who prompted this post with his own.
I have been working with my Ancestors pretty closely going on about four years now. In that time a pair of ancient Ancestors, one a Disir, a powerful female Ancestors, and the other a Vater (German word meaning ‘father’ which I use in place of ‘alfar’ which can also mean ‘elf’) have come forward to guide me in my Work. In the last two years my Catholic Ancestors have raised Their Voices and let Themselves be known much stronger than previous. It seems now, in addition to speaking for my long-Dead Ancestors, that I must speak for and with the Catholic ones as well.
When They first began contacting me, it was a cacophony of voices, questions like “Why did you stop going to church? Do you not like Fr. ___ anymore?” and “You can still pray with…
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I don’t even know what to say about this. It’s the tragic consequence of DOMA, and Clinton, Gingrich and the rest should atone for all the misery they’ve caused (but they won’t)
The suicide of this couple should be blamed squarely on the laws of the United States that specifically excludes gay spouses
By Melanie Nathan, March 11, 2013.
Wilfried Knight may be remembered as yet another adult industry porn star who happened to commit suicide; but there is much more and so that is not the reason we should remember him or how he died. Two gay men died, husbands, and they both committed suicide within a month of each other, the genesis of which must be attributed to a spiraling of their lives, from romance to having to survive inhumane discrimination, starting with the laws of the U.S.A. that would not allow for the couple to remain legally in the U.S.A. and ending in the work place prejudice in the country that took them in on a work visa.
After Jerry Enriquez, an American aged 47, committed suicide, his husband…
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