Spotlight on Local Charitable Works: Glitter Gives Back
As you might imagine, Jax and I have pretty cool friends. 😉 Some of our cool friends are doing wonderful charitable works in our community. Since part of being a Pagan Princess is being (a Pagan) part of your wider community, we wanted to spotlight our friends’ wonderfulness. This is the first in a series...
Autumnal Equinox Resolutions
I hope you and yours had a lovely equinox! Last autumnal equinox, what we Heathens call Winter Finding, I wrote about letting go of the old to make room for the new, and I thought I’d hold myself accountable by letting you know how I did. Last year I said I’d let go of… …the...
Sleeping with Ancestors, Mantic and Romantic Dreams
When I say I sleep with my ancestors, I mean I dream of them. I dream of the ancestors I know, or rather knew, fairly frequently. Although I now suspect I dream of ancestors I never knew, too, but I don’t recognize them as such because…well, largely because I don’t recognize them. Jax and talked...
Defining a Heathen
As a writer, specificity in the meaning of the words we use is important to me. I think a lot of miscommunication happens because people have a different idea of what a word means, which can lead to misunderstanding and even arguments. We should know what we mean when we use a word, and our...
Separation of Church and State: The Devil is in the Details
I might have two religions. I am a Pagan. And I am a constitutionalist. I absolutely accept the constitution as a living document; a document that can be amended to adjust to changing mores (like equal civil rights) and new technology (like the Internet). But I also think the original documents that founded our country...
Requesting Responses from the Realm: How Do You Define “God�
Last Tuesday’s article got me thinking about the way different people define “god.†Not WHO g/God is (Odin, Jehovah, The Great Spirit, Allah, etc), but WHAT g/God is. If “god†was a species (or a character type in an RPG, complete with stats!*) how would you describe it? It seems like we spend so much...
Living with National Tragedy, 10 Years Later
Merriam-Webster’s defines tragedy as “a disastrous event†resulting from misfortune or calamity (which is misfortune highly amplified). In this context, some may not consider September 11, 2001 to be a tragedy. Not because it wasn’t a disastrous event, but because it wasn’t an unfortunate event. Fortune had nothing to do with it. It was a...
Keeping It Real, Mythologically Speaking
I believe in Odin. Like, for real. I just had to get that off my chest. To be honest, that’s pretty difficult for me to say out loud, (write out loud?) and I find myself regularly avoiding that very statement (or anything similar, such as “I believe in Thor†or “I believe in Freyjaâ€) when...
Burning Man Celebrates 25 Years of paganism
This is a summer of notable anniversaries! The Pagan Princesses blog turned one year old last month, an event indelible in everyone’s psyche, surely. 😎 Ginger Rogers was born 100 years ago! (I ⤠Ginger Rogers.) The Titanic launched 100 years ago. One thousand years ago, Vikings plundered Canterbury. And this week, Burning Man turns...
