Meeting the Gods: From One to Many Part 1
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Michelle
- Jun 3
- 4 min
From One to Many: Unpacking Monotheistic Baggage
Lately there’ve been many conversations in the polytheist community about the ways monotheistic baggage can hinder an active polytheistic...
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Michelle
- May 29
- 1 min
A Prayer for Inspiration
The Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge begins Tuesday, and I know many of us are feeling a bit overwhelmed, or unprepared, or are...
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Michelle
- May 25
- 1 min
Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge 2021 Prompts
The Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge begins June 1. Here is the list of daily prompts for inspiration. Feel free to use as many or...
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Michelle
- May 20
- 2 min
Get Ready for the Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge
Lately my Gods have been pushing me to write more for Them, and especially to write poetry, which is a challenge that really puts me...
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Michelle
- Feb 24
- 4 min
Not All Crows are Omens (But Some Are): A Sacred Encounter
Trigger warning: dead animal, animal predation. One of the hardest things to do, once we start opening our awareness up to the idea of...
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Michelle
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
The Ear is Off the King: Polytheism, Magic, and Sovereignty
The following is an excerpt from issue 4 of Stone, Root, and Bone, written by myself and published by Hagstone Publishing in August of...
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Michelle
- Aug 28, 2020
- 5 min
Cutting the Cord: Renouncing Old Religious Ties
In junior high, high school, and college, I was very religious. I was raised by a fanatical fundamentalist Christian mother and fed a...
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Michelle
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
Imposter Syndrome, Ritual, and the Gods
I’ve spent most of my 20+ years as a witch as a solitary practitioner. But over the past year I’ve been working on forming a small circle...
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Michelle
- Jun 21, 2019
- 5 min
Language and Spiritual Entitlement
I have to confess I had multiple motives for yesterday’s blog post. One motive was providing a resource for clarity of meaning when...
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Michelle
- Jun 20, 2019
- 5 min
A Brief Theistic Lexicon
The past few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about how the pagan/witchy/magical community has a problem with using language accurately....
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Michelle Simkins
polytheist . writer . witch