Jax in the Land of her Ancestors
I’m going to Scandinavia!!! After all the chaos of this summer, TheScott and I decided to do something awesome. We plan to put in the paperwork to try adopting again sometime in 2014, so we decided to make it a big trip, the kind we hopefully won’t be able to take for a long time....
Winter Nights and the Elf Blot
One of the big challenges of a reconstructed faith is taking a religion that varied through several centuries and creating a single system out of the mix. The faith of the Teutonic peoples was practiced for hundreds of years from Germany to Iceland and almost everywhere in between. It’s no surprise the tribes of first...
Race, Pride, Children and Me
I’m going to make myself uncomfortable today. I’m going to talk about race. I need to learn to do this. There’s a good chance my kids will be a different race than I am. And even if they’re not, it’s important to me that my children grow up as unprejudiced as I can help them...
Pulling on Paganism to Cope with Fear: The Princess’s Guide to “Don’t Panic!â€
I’m having a little trouble with fear lately. Or maybe it’s more worry. I think these two emotions are interwoven. I did something to my body and am numb in my left hip and thigh and my left lower back and abdomen. Argh! I’m not sure where the “owie†is actually located, but it’s most...
Ancestor Veneration in Practice
As I wrote a couple weeks ago, ancestor veneration is a part of many faiths, including several branches of Paganism. Anyone can set an altar up, and for a lot of people, myself included, regularly renewing our connection to the past through the practice of ancestor veneration is not only comforting, but powerful. Ancestors are there...
Ancestor Veneration – A World Tradition
One of the rituals I have engaged in since I became a Heathen is ancestor veneration (also called ancestor worship or ancestor reverence). Ancestor veneration (to save space I’ll call it AV in this article) is practiced around the world and has been for thousands of years in native cultures from Asia to the Americas...
