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I'm Not Special (and That's Okay): From One to Many, Part 2

Michelle

Aug 13, 2021
16 min

I'm Not Special (and That's Okay): From One to Many, Part 2

Michelle: Welcome to the second part of our “From One to Many” blog series on unpacking monotheist baggage. If you haven’t read our intro...

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Meeting the Gods: From One to Many Part 1

Michelle

Jun 7, 2021
15 min

Meeting the Gods: From One to Many Part 1

Content warning: This conversation touches on various issues of religious abuse, including some description and discussion of attempted...

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From One to Many: Unpacking Monotheistic Baggage

Michelle

Jun 3, 2021
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, 2021
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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Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge 2021 Prompts

Michelle

May 25, 2021
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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Get Ready for the Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge

Michelle

May 20, 2021
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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Not All Crows are Omens (But Some Are): A Sacred Encounter

Michelle

Feb 24, 2021
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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The Ear is Off the King: Polytheism, Magic, and Sovereignty

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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Cutting the Cord: Renouncing Old Religious Ties

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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I'm Not Special (and That's Okay): From One to Many, Part 2

Meeting the Gods: From One to Many Part 1

From One to Many: Unpacking Monotheistic Baggage

A Prayer for Inspiration

Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge 2021 Prompts

Get Ready for the Polytheist Devotional Arts Challenge

Not All Crows are Omens (But Some Are): A Sacred Encounter

The Ear is Off the King: Polytheism, Magic, and Sovereignty

Cutting the Cord: Renouncing Old Religious Ties

Imposter Syndrome, Ritual, and the Gods

Language and Spiritual Entitlement

A Brief Theistic Lexicon

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