Since prayer beads are important in my religious practice, I decided to read Shannon Yrizarry’s “Modern Guide to Meditation Beads.”… Source: Review: Modern Guide to Meditation Beads | Neptune’s Dolphins I love book recommendations. There’s something special and interesting about getting a new book recommendation that just kind of lightens up a whole day and […]
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I bought this nice art piece from The Little Sorcerer on Etsy. It’s adorable and looks amazing in person, as well as being very well made. Also, great to work with the shop owner, who was friendly and very helpful. All in all, it was a great purchase from an economic standpoint. I’m not planning […]
Read MoreOf Pop-Culture Paganism–to an extent. I think. I’m not sure… Like, I’ve made some snide comments before about people being into pop culture paganism and following fads. And how people get sucked into it, and just how popular things get just because of whatever pop culture trend is the latest hot fad around the internet. […]
Read MoreBeing a mentally ill “pagan” is all sorts of fun. (high levels of sarcasm here) Mostly because of all the people out there the broader community who all seem obsessed with how everything has to be “naturally” done, or go back to nature, etc. etc. ad nauseum, blah blah blah. And it’s not like this […]
Read MoreI think I’ve written a bit about this before…but I am also lazy (and also currently very, very sick, for the record), so I’m not going to take the time to go back and try and link to any past posts, if they exist. I know they link by tags, so that’s a way to […]
Read MoreI’ve stated several times before that I identify strictly as a Slavic Polytheist. Not as a Rodnover, not as a follower of “native faith”…not even a Slavic pagan. There’s a reason for that, which I’ve been grappling with for a while. See, Rodnovery (and any of the linguistic names) is extremely problematic for me. I […]
Read MoreIf one is totally headblind. (Or an extension of my previous post on the topic: here) I already discussed how I am completely headblind. And how that sometimes can be difficult in the pagan/polytheist online crowd. After all, there is a lot on how people hear their gods, or their gods speak to them constantly. […]
Read MoreI’ve had a lot of changes in how I’ve identified myself over the years. When I first started out, as a 12-13 year old, I swore I was “Wiccan”. The books all said I could self-initiate as one, so I figured, cool, I was now Wiccan. Of course, some years later, and I was learning […]
Read MoreSomething that most people do not know about me is that I collect religious items. Most have been given to me, but there is one subset of my collections that I have bought for myself. That is the one that I think seems to shock people most of all when they happen to see this […]
Read MoreIs a very interesting experience. Back when I first started seriously interacting with online pagans I was afraid to admit to myself that I was head blind. I knew I was, to the depths of my soul, but I didn’t really admit it to myself, and I certainly never said so in any of the […]
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The Slavic Polytheist 