Tag: ritual
From the Editor: Grooves & the Present Moment
It was the early 1970s and we were living in Portland, Ore. I was 11 years old in the sixth grade, and bell bottoms...
Spirit Leaves: Keeping it Sacred
Each day I strive to maintain a connection to what is Sacred. Everything I do, everything I think, everything I say I wish to...
Ignite your Alchemy through a Vision Quest
In 2001, I was lucky to experience a vision quest through a graduate course at John F. Kennedy University, in California. A vision quest...
Celebrate each day the Ayurvedic Way
Life brings us big and small celebrations along the way. Some celebrations are landmark events where we may reach a goal, land that promotion,...
Wear the Right Garb
Decorating one's home, office and oneself are all ways of honoring the spirit of the season, and the practice dates back to some very...
An Empowering Healing Ceremony: Connecting to a Past Life in Egypt
Many lifetimes ago, I was a young girl in a small Egyptian village who had the gift of "seeing" three days into the future....
Empowering Yourself Through Inner Alchemy
What does it take to master inner alchemy, to turn the lead of our negative or limited thoughts, beliefs, emotional patterns and subconscious programming...
Creating an effective Personal Ritual
In these changing, evolving times, I've found it essential to update my personal rituals to keep up with my own personal spiritual growth. The...
I Walk In Beauty
"Hozho'dooleel!" My grandmother begins her prayer of gratitude. With a gentle caress of her forefingers, the white coarse cornmeal sacred to the Holy People...
Pagan Pride returns to Minnehaha Falls Park
Twin Cities Pagan Pride, a free fall event open to the public, offers education about Paganism to the larger community. It returns from 10...
Write Your Truth
For 15-plus years, I've been teaching personal writing as a form of self-expression, healing, community building, and in recent years, as a meditative practice....
Evolutionary Pagan: The Human Mystery
A COMMON RITUAL occurrence at pagan festivals is that of the men's and women's mysteries. Men's and women's mystery rituals generally revolve around things...
Lava Girl: Devouring the Moment
Last Thursday I nestled in, listening to the beat of the Shaman's drum: our circle of journeyers befriending the direction of the South, and...
Evolutionary Pagan: (Source)ry
What is a pagan? Despite the rapidly growing number of movies, books and television shows that present witches or other pagans in various situations,...
Thank You for Eating the Cake
One of the great defining moments of my life came when I was in college. For about seven years, I had been practicing Orthodox...
10 Ways Rituals Help Us Celebrate Our Lives
Ritual has its roots in religion, and life's fundamental passages are often traditionally accompanied by religious ritual. But life's great passages are by nature...
The Miriam Tradition: Living the Path of Joy
Remember reading about Miriam in the Bible? Â As the sister of Moses, some people remember her from the film Prince of Egypt, and the...