• My Life

    Let’s Talk About Fairies!

    Okay, so with the letter “F” coming up this week, how can I resist fairies? I’m no expert, not by any means, but there is stuff that I do know. So, let’s start with the basic. Most fairies (but not all) are nature spirits. Others are air, earth, water, and fire spirits. I’m not sure why nature gets singled out as kind of a fifth element – perhaps it’s a particular combination of the other elements, but there you have it. This means that the best place to find fairies is out in natural places. Wild places have more fairies, but that’s not to say they are rare in the…

  • My Life,  Something Beautiful

    Entertainment

    Entertainment is something that we usually consider a secular activity, but when it comes to living a spiritual life, everything is part of spirituality, including the entertainment choices that we make. First, I want to talk briefly about current entertainment choices. With shows like Supernatural, Charmed, and even Grimm, common spirituality topics are becoming more main stream. Now, I just started watching Supernatural and have to say that I really appreciate the way that psychics and other spiritual practitioners are being portrayed very realistically, in my experience. I haven’t watched Charmed at all, but I’ve heard good things about it, even if it can be over dramatic. In addition to…

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  • Tutorials

    Effect the Energy Around You

    Hi guys! This week I’ve decided to record my blog project post as a vlog instead of a written blog. It’s easier for me to talk about and I think I communicate the topic a lot easier out loud. Plus! You guys get to kind of “meet” me and see a little of what I’m like. Below the video, there’s a link to the MP3 file for those of you whose computers do not like video or just prefer to listen on your MP3 player of choice.   Energy Vlog (Click to listen, Right Click to Save)

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  • Dreams

    Dreams and Dreaming

    Dreams are an immense part of our lives, even when we don’t remember them. Science hasn’t quite figured out the purpose of dreams, except that while we’re dreaming, our brain is building and reinforcing neural pathways. But dreams do a whole lot for us. They help us remember things, important information, they help us work out problems and find solutions, and they allow our unconscious minds to communicate with our conscious minds. And this unconscious to conscious communication is perhaps the most intriguing part. There’s a lot that happens in our unconscious, while we’re awake and while we’re asleep. So much happens that we don’t really know for sure everything…

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  • Creativity and Artwork,  Spiritual Skillset

    Dancing with Spirit

    Long time readers of my blog know that one of my passions is dance – specifically, I’m a belly dancer! I’ve been dancing since I was 17. Now, I haven’t danced that whole time – there were years here and there where I barely even practiced at all. But during these times, I always felt this deep sense of loss and I found myself disconnected from the Earth and my own body. Dance may seem a pretty mundane topic to discuss, but it only seems so mundane because it is so completely pervasive. All cultures have music and wherever there is music, there is dancing. Even if it’s just drums…

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  • My Life

    Creator Deities

    I am richly privileged in the circumstance that I have friends from many different religious backgrounds and beliefs. I’ve read many creator myths, though not all of them (I’ll get there!) but none of them really feel right to me. So, this post is just a little bit more about me and my personal religious beliefs and less a survey of creations. In my eccentric version of Paganism, I do not believe in a Creator Deity – one that created the Universe and all that is in it. I don’t even believe in one that created the Earth Mother and Father Sky. But I do believe that the Earth Mother…

  • Animal Energies,  Social Issues

    Universality – The Brotherhood of Life

    Looking through the creation myths of the world, we find a common thread. Humans and animals used to be brothers, sometimes even cut from the same cloth. Sometimes the decisions that humans made created an entire species of animal, sometimes we were able to change our forms at will and some of us decided to keep animal forms and some of us chose human forms. Some animals are still believed to be able to change their shape between animal and human. Indigenous cultures often believed that all of life was family – we formed a Brotherhood of life. We have our animal brothers, our plant brothers, our Earth brothers, our…

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