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Who Is This Priestess? Part 3

So after the preceding posts, some questions come to mind, one of which is, What does it mean to be a priestess? Or at least, What does it mean for me? There are several others, but I can’t speak to all of these in one post, but I can speak to the first question, and […]

Priestess Part 2:  Four Quarters

In 1996, in the company of a dear friend and sometime girlfriend (we had a boyfriend in common, but that’s another story), I went to what was then simply called Four Quarters Farm, a campground administered by the Church of Four Quarters, an interfaith, largely Pagan church. What follows is my account on this day, […]

Crazy Wicca? No.

Today I go to see a new psychiatrist, and I’m really nervous. What does it mean to see a new brain doctor, especially for someone with my spirituality? For those of you who don’t know, I thought I’d share. If you’ve read my last couple of posts, you know by now that part of my […]

Water’s Many Embraces

The Love of Water When I was a small person, before I reached the wise age of 14 or so, I would go for walks. I would sing as I walked: Songs I knew from the Top 40, songs from church, songs from the alternative mixtapes my best friend made for me, or songs I […]

Outsiders Welcome Here

As I have written before, I have spent much of my life as an “outsider,” a “freak,” an “imposter” in the world of “normal people.” And I am learning that those of us who have believed—often wisely—that we have to hide our identities in some way, are “my people.” You are the people who have […]

Who Are We?

Who are you? Who are you spiritually? What “counts” as spirituality in your life and how do you live into it authentically? Authenticity has been much of my mind of late, as I have been writing down memories from the first 30 years or so of my life. I am in midlife now, and I […]