First Week of Samhain – Facing Death – BTWC 03Oct18
Do you know how you’re going to handle your own death? Have you thought about it? Does thinking about death frighten you? Maybe it’s time we really talked about it more publicly.
Tag: death
Lent Poetry: He is a Healer
He comes to me lays His hands on my head and says: “I can’t promise you that things will get better. I can’t tell you that there won’t be more violence in My name. I can tell you that you will have life and love and laughter and sorrow before you cross over. You need […]
On Grief
There’s been a lot of discussion about grief since the election: what is “proper” grief, when to get over grief, and people denying the grief of others. Two months ago, this post would have probably just been a rant about not telling people how to grieve, but then my friend Bubby Jerimyah D’Luv died suddenly. […]
Samhain Thoughts: A Conversation with Ereshkigal
“You humans are very strange creatures,” She said as She sat down. I took a sip of my cocoa. “I can’t argue with You about that. We tend to do a lot of weird stuff to each other and to our planet. We are stubborn, willful, quick to anger, but then we can be full […]
Dancing in the Dark
I was reading an anthology about people’s experiences with Ereshkigal the other day, and I realized that I must be kind of weird when it comes to the “dark” Goddesses. Ereshkigal is new as a patron, but I’ve worked with Her before. I’ve also worked with Hecate, the Morrigan, Cerridwen, Lilith, Kali, and several other […]