Posted by Angela on July 31, 2011
Did you notice? There are TWO posts today! And today’s comes from Ann of The Pagan Housewife, whom also provided us with the very informative piece on Odin at the beginning of the month. Great way to end it, eh? Frejya (Old Norse “The Lady”) Freyja is the goddess of sex, love, beauty, [...]
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Posted by Angela on July 29, 2011
Today’s post comes to us fromIrisanya whom is an amazing poet! You can also hit her up on Facebook and Twitter When I first took my magickal name, I didn’t want to explain it to anyone. Iris is special to me, and one of the forgotten goddesses, it seems, and I wanted to keep her [...]
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Posted by Angela on July 27, 2011
Today’s post is brought to us by Tina of Bewitching Names (which is a super cool blog, you should follow it now!) GANESH One of the fun things Pagans get to do is pick a patron or matron god that is special to them in some way. I could say that this was hard [...]
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Posted by Angela on July 23, 2011
Today’s submission comes courtesy of Natalie at Pregnant Pagan, be sure to comment and leave her congratulations on her upcoming nuptials! The following is an excerpt from my blog written back in March. Please forgive the poor grammar; my first trimester of pregnancy did a number on my writing brain. This post ended [...]
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Posted by Angela on July 22, 2011
I never realized how much influence the goddess Brigid has had in my life until I started writing this post. For example: The troll doll that I bought with my husband to “guard” our house (and specifically our threshold? Named Brigit. The Queen of Fairy who is a retired goddess and who guides my main [...]
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