As much as I would have liked to celebrate the Kallynteria and Plynteria festivals this weekend, I had to deal with a sick child. I will celebrate them today with the cleansing of aspects of my life that I have been having to neglect — like my dishes….

Whenever you hear cries that freedom has won, it’s worth contemplating who, if anyone, has lost. Sometimes it takes a while for the implications of a US Supreme Court decision to be known. Not so in the case of the recent one allowing prayer before commencing government business.  As this article on the Slate website indicates, LESS…

Mother’s Day is here in the US, and the weather where I am is reminding me of something in the stories of Artemis and Apollo — the lesson of Niobe and her hubris. She offended by comparing herself to Leto and saying that she was BETTER than Leto.  This offended Apollo and Artemis because she…

Pindar, Processional Song on Delos (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :“Hail. O heaven-built isle [of Delos], most lovely scion of the children of bright-haired Leto, O daughter of the sea, thou unmoved marvel of the spacious earth, by mortal men called Delos, but by the blessed gods of Olympos known as the far-seen star…

I was hearing about and reading about the US Supreme Court’s decision yesterday. It concerns me on a number of levels, not the least of which is that I am a member of a minority religion. As Literata Hurley says in her blog post http://worksofliterata.org/2014/05/06/scotus-endorses-government-prayer/ we as Pagans (Wiccans included) will likely end up being tokens…

This week encompasses both modern and ancient festivals honoring Apollo, Artemis, and their mother Leto. To start with, there is the ancient Thargelia festival and then the American festival of Mother’s Day which I celebrate as a modern festival of Leto, who suffered labor until she found a place to give birth. To Leto (Orphic Hymn #35)…

Today is the National Day of Prayer for this year in the United States.  I have mixed feelings about this. While I think that prayer is a necessary part of our praxis as Hellenic Polytheists, I also do not feel that we need a special day on the NATIONAL level for us to pray as…

Today is Beltane in the Wiccan tradition and some people hold that it is the actual beginning of summer (instead of the Summer Solstice) — something that I tend to agree with. And with Thargelia coming up within a weeks time, I have been thinking of the correspondence between the festivals of this time of…