The title of this post is inspired by the passing of Carrie Fisher on December 27th, 2016. She portrayed a strong, capable, and warm-hearted woman in five of the current eight movies of the Star Wars franchise of movies (including Rogue 1 but not Episode 8 because that movie has not been released yet). She was…

As many of my readers know, I am the daughter of a Greek Orthodox Christian priest. I consider that to be one of the things informing the religious path that I walk now. Although I cannot honestly say that my father would approve of my worship of the Pre-Christian Gods of Hellas, I can say with…

Hint — there are no Classical period Hellenic religious festivals (at least in the Athenian Festival calendar) to mark the Winter Solstice. The closest we come is a modern festival called Heliogennia. The reason for this, at least in my opinion, is that the winter solstice was not as important to the Greeks in the Classical period…

Chione, or snow,  was the daughter of the North Wind — Boreas — and I am being reminded of that relationship today because of an area of cold weather stretching down across the United States along with snow in the area in which I live. This makes me feel that I need to work on something…

Both of these pictures are important to me in regards to tradition. One is of my father, who was a Greek Orthodox priest. The other is of my daughter, who I am raising as a child of the Hellenic Gods. While the first one is an indication of where I came from, the second is who…

There is a strong focus on Hero cultus in Hellenic Polytheism. Although the heros being honored are not at the same level as the Undying Gods, they provide for us examples of arête in how they lived (and sometimes died). When it comes to giving cultus to modern heros and heroines, there is sometimes debate as to…

For a month or so I have been having a growing feeling in the back of my mind that the Gods have been wanting for me to “step up” to being a Priestess of the Daughters of Chronos. I have been reluctant to claim the  title of Priestess in the past because it is not…