The Panathenaia ta mikra is beginning tomorrow and as it happens, it falls this year at the same time as the Celtic based festival of Lammas. As I do not have a garment for Athena, I plan on making a different offering to Athena. I’m planning to make a pan of cookies in her honor. This will…

This past weekend I baptized my daughter in the Orthodox Christian Church. As someone who is most assuredly NOT a Christian anymore, this has caused me some degree of soul-searching. But ultimately it is something that I had to do — as I had promised my mother I would do it when I WAS still…

Most people would look at the title of this particular post and wonder what it has to do with my religious/spiritual life. And that would show that they were NOT paying attention to the fact that most of our life events have food attached to them. In the case of the cookies that are in…

Today is a good day to worship the Gods. It is not a day that is associated with any particular festival but that makes it as good as any other day. And EVERY day is a good day to worship. This is sometimes a surprising sentiment in our “once-a-week” society where we set aside a…

Family is something that is of great importance to me, whether it is family by blood or family by adoption. Family by blood is something that we cannot choose while family by adoption is something that we choose for ourselves (or is chosen for us by the Gods) This earthly family mirrors in many ways…

Many people are looking at the recent Zimmerman case and seeing it through the lens of “racial” injustice. I think that is a fallacy. Yes, I DO believe that Justice was NOT served in the verdict. BUT I feel that the problem lies in a system where power is concentrated with those who have a…

People talk about religion as if it were the thing that is important in this equation. But it is not. What is the most important is faith. This is because religions are made by humans, but FAITH is absolute. When we stand before the judges of the dead we cannot say that virtue was inconvenient.…

This is an interesting post for me as there has been a bit of discussion in one of my Facebook pages about ritual and the importance of it. For me, the day-to-day rituals of thankfulness need to be maintained, like daily offerings of (in my case) coffee to the Gods. It is in the home…

There are several discussions that are going on on the Hellenic Polytheistic Community FaceBook page concerning the Hellenic worldview and what is and is not appropriate to Hellenic Polytheism. One of the most important groups being discussed is the YSEE (Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes) and their views on a variety of subjects. The YSEE is doing an admirable…

Today is the beginning of the Athenian Year and (as it happens) the 698th Olympiad. This is also a day that I have spent thinking about how Hellenic Polytheism has affected my life and how I hope to celebrate it more with groups of people. I maintain a daily praxis in my home, but yearn…