Spirit Writer

I'm currently working on a healer's bio of sorts as a personal archive that may be of interest to others who've traveled a similar path, which I hope to publish here in the next few months. It'll include my experience going from an evangelical belief system to the New-Age toxic positivity movement and how they're often two sides of the same coin. In the meantime, I came across a fascinating bit of "channeled" info. I haven't completely let go of my woo-girl days that I'll be covering in the bio. I've noticed a strange phenomenon in the lightworker community. People actually think Donald Trump is a lightworker. Maybe it's not so strange. I've seen people, especially women, treat abusers as victims in New Age and Pagan circles. From what I observed in the '90s and early aughts, these abusers have to start out by using performance progressivism to get women to fall for it. While I don't think Trump has any loyalty to a party, he

Smoky quartz, one of my favorite grounding stones. Credit: Parent Géry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I've created a new meditation video for my Northland Hearth channel in support of my article at Hubpages titled, Crystals for Grounding and Healing the Root Chakra . My goal is to add more audio and video media to my existing blog posts and articles across the web, as well as create new written content and support it with videos. This will include a range from what some might consider "woo" to hard polytheist journeys. Why should AI have all the fun, eh? I hope you enjoy.

A sacrifice to Thor. Credit: Johan Ludwig Lund, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I've been designing prayer/gift cards for my crafting business efforts. This is the poem I wrote for Thor to use with one of my designs. I hope you enjoy it. Prayer to Thor Hail to Thor, Mighty God of Thunder! Rugged wielder of Mjolnir,  Guardian of Asgard, Warrior, I praise you. Devoted to family,  good friend of humanity, Grant me your gifts of courage,  loyalty, and fierce truth so that my words and deeds  may always honor you. Hail Defender of Midgard! Hail Thor!  Prayer to Thor by Trish Deneen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .

 Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay   Just a quick note to share this excellent video by Canadian Heathen blogger Michelle Wyn aka Hearthside on YouTube . Firstly, she's taking on the task of making her blog posts more accessible by creating videos for them. Secondly, in this video, she discusses what she calls shame culture in Heathenry, especially in online spaces. She says: "In our fast-paced modern world it is becoming more and more easy to publicly shame someone in a moment of anger, but unlike the shaming of Heathen culture historically, this sort of shaming can have a permanent effect on someone’s life with no room for recovery...Beyond this, public shaming on the internet does not cause people to change their behaviours. It may even have the inverse effect." I would expand this to all of internet Paganism and Occultism. I find it ironic how quickly the metaphorical pitchforks are reached for by people historically concerned with being persecuted by pitchfork wi