Pandora Wolf
After being asked to leave my Christian church at the age of 10 years old for asking questions they could not answer, I began studying every world religion I could get my hands on.
I found that my beliefs did not rest with just one religion, but a multitude of different aspects of many religions, and that is where I found the answers to my questions. I had always been interested in the Tarot, and had received my first deck when I was 7 years old. Now, I have over 20 decks, 6 sets of runes, and a collection of over 30 beautiful pendulums (although I no longer read for other people). I find that a solid connection with nature and the life energy that flows through everything is where I find my peace, and although I do not fit into one category of the term “Pagan”, I most certainly do not identify with any of the other organized religions.
I am from Far Northern California, and happily married with a young son, and soon a daughter expected any day now. I have an amazing 9-year-old stepson, who lives with his mother in Southern California. My husband likes to tell people I am pagan and talk to spirits for the simple shock value associated with the statement.
I started this magazine with the sole intention of bringing people together, sharing knowledge, and building community relationships and cultural understandings.
Erin Lund Johnson
My spiritual inspiration flows from the indigenous Gaelic traditions of my ancestors from Ireland and Scotland. My worldview and ceremonies continue
the stream of wisdom from this ancestral well, and carry it forward into the world today, and to my descendants, in honor of my ancestors. I write and blog about this tradition, the Creideamh Si, on my website, Gaelic Folkway. I also serve as mother priestess to a Brighidine Celtic polytheist flametender-priestess Order called Nigheanan Brighde; the Order created and maintains a website serving as a Directory of Brighidine Flametending Orders for devotees of Brighid. I have written essays about, and poetry inspired by, my spiritual and flametending traditions which have been published in recent anthologies, including Brigit: Sun of Womanhood, and Stepping Into Ourselves: An Anthology of Priestesses, both by Goddess Ink, Ltd., and Paganism 101: An Introduction To Paganism by 101 Pagans, by Moon Books. Some of my blog posts were also featured on a website for devotional polytheists called Polytheism Without Borders. I am passionate about reviving ancestral traditions, creating holistic community, recovering indigenous mind, and the Portland Timbers soccer club where I live in Cascadia (Pacific Northwest in the US). At home I am wife, mother, homeschooler, urban homesteader, chicken mama, avid reader, writer, poet, visionary, and dreamer.
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