Category: Blog
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An Autumnal Prayer
beautiful altar from https://www.flickr.com/photos/pearlshelf/8726509704 Preceeding this prayer/blessing, we did a ritual honoring what we were grateful for, and honoring what was balanced in our lives. A simple ritual while meditating on a bonfire (though, because this was in a santuary/church, the bonfire was a lovely YouTube video!). Spirit of Life, Spirit of Love, Shining Nonbinary…
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I Don’t Like My Birthday
Today I celebrate 47 rotations around the sun. I don’t particularly feel like I am 47 years old. What I mean about that is that I don’t look like, sound like, or behave like the 47 year olds I grew up around. I don’t look 47 – and while that looks are subjective, I’ve been…
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How Do You Listen?
by: Rev. Johnnie Bloom-Ramirez When you hear positive feedback, how do you listen? Do I hear it as an affirmation of your work, your time, and your effort, or Do you hear it as a hammer poised to strike in our heart of hearts? A thinly veiled attempt to humor you. When you feel good,…
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Invocation of the Sin of Empathy
Spirit of Life, Love, God, Goddess, Goddexx, one of many names and of none… Please be with us now. Help us reconcile the horrific changes in our country at this time, Let these changes be like the chrysalis of a butterfly, And let us roll in the primordial, creative soup, And know that we are…
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I No Longer Have a Mother
TW: details of sexual abuse and rape, emotional abuse and manipulation by parental figures; brief discussion of relationship emotional and mental abuse. Uncensored language. . . . I will not be “ministerial” in this post. I will be a human who is dealing with a huge trauma, and that will include some thoughts that might…
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Imbolc
Recently, I created a beautiful Imbolc ritual for the congregation that I serve here in Sunnyvale, CA. If you are not familiar with Imbolc, it’s a Greater Sabbat of the Neo-Pagan calendar, and it is a time to welcome the first stirrings of spring and honour the goddess Brigid. It’s a festival of renewal, fire, and…