Be kind

There are many reasons to be angry: those people who aren’t taking this pandemic seriously enough those people who are taking this pandemic too seriously those people you live with whose habits are becoming more irritating every day those people online who are too stupid to live those people who are making terrible decisions about

Planting prayer for Poseidon

Gentle Ennosigaios, now we ask you to move the earth. Not with all the vast power which rages under roiling brows of Labrandeus, nor the tenacious focus of dashing Prosclystius, nor any of the many ways which Pelagaeus could bring to bear. Subtle Ennosigaios, now we ask you to move the earth. With the steadfast

Holiday greetings

My wife and I send cards at this time of year, and not just cards, either:  we include a little newsletter giving a synopsis of what we’ve been up to in the past year.  It’s old-school, it’s time-consuming, it uses up lots of paper, it’s entirely unnecessary, it often gets little or no response, and

Oracle for one

I have noted before that I have pulled back on ritual work for the moment, something which Apollon this month confirmed through divination is still appropriate by saying, “Stay, friend.”  In practice this means I stick with what’s daily and have laid down weekly and monthly work, including many of my priestly duties. My oracular

Devotion while depressed

My post on the spirit of depression gets waves of likes from time to time, and the article I wrote on treating depression in a Pagan context remains one of the most popular pieces I wrote for the Wild Hunt.  I don’t know that Pagans and polytheists suffer depression more than other people, but it