Join Me for the Kin Inanna Festival!

Kin Inanna was an ancient festival celebrated to honor Inanna in the city of Nippur, dating to the third dynasty of Ur. I’ve decided to do a series of public rituals for this festival as part of my ordination project. What better way to begin my pagan ministry work than with helping to revive an ancient celebration of Inanna! I hope this will be interesting to the Mesopotamian polytheist community and even people on other pagan paths.

I’m planning out a series of public (online) rituals to celebrate Kin Inanna. I’m thinking Thursday, September 19th for the first, either the 21st or 22nd for the second, and the 24th for the third. It will probably be around 7 or 7:30 pm on Facebook Live. I have to rehearse and put the finishing touches on my rituals to see how long I’ll need for set up and for the actual rituals. I’ll put up a Facebook event when I get it all sorted out in the next couple of days. I believe Live videos can be re-watched later, so if you wanted to participate, but can’t make it, you can still participate asynchronously (unless I mess up too bad and decide to remove it!)

My Experiences with Rod and Ring parts 1 and 2 (Threshold and Foundation)

I finally got around to making videos of my experiences with the Threshold and Foundation sections of Rod and Ring. These videos are pretty brief. I’ve already shared more about the Foundation rituals earlier in this blog. (I don’t think I did blog posts about Threshold. That might have been before I started writing openly about my spiritual explorations).


“Deity Work” and Beginner Pagans

I’ve been seeing an idea that deity work is only for advanced practitioners of paganism or witchcraft popping up in online pagan spaces lately. In this video, I talk about why I disagree with this idea, and why I believe that deity worship is the foundational aspect of pagan religious practice.

This was just a quick video I made after seeing some Reddit posts this morning, even though I already have a whole list of other videos I want to make.

Enki and Ninmah: The Place of Neurodivergence and Other “Disabilities” in Society

I discuss the myth of Enki and Ninmah, where Enki finds a place in society for Ninmah’s “deformed” creations and share my interpretation of how this myth applies to the value of people who are considered disable based on my personal experiences.

How I Came to Paganism

One of my assignments for my Pagan Clergy Training class last week was a series of journal prompts. One of the questions, “How did you come to paganism?” ended up with me writing a lengthy several page answer, so I thought that would make a good video for my channel. I suspect a lot of pagans have similar long winding journeys that eventually brought them to their current spiritual paths.

My Next Magickal Adventure: Pagan Clergy Training

I’m nearing the end of my Order of the Rod and Ring initiation journey and I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to go next in my spiritual path. While this initiation will make me able to perform priestly duties with regard to serving the gods and maintaining their temple, I still feel like to actually take on a title of clergy or priestess, I need to be able to actually serve the pagan community. So I have decided to take a pagan clergy training class, which starts next week! It is through an organization called Greenwild Mystical Academy. If anyone reading this is interested in joining me, you can find more information here: Accepting the Call: Pagan Clergy Training. This is a general course for anyone following a pagan spiritual path who is interested in training to take on a clergy role.

I don’t know completely where this will take me yet, but I’m trusting in the Gods that this is the path that They want me to pursue right now.

My Experience with Rod and Ring – Part 3: Descent

I recently finished the third part of Descent in Rod and Ring and will be beginning Ascent this week! Here is a video I made talking about my experiences working through the Descent rituals. I’m planning on going back to do videos on the Foundation and Threshold sections, which I did before I started making videos. Hopefully before I finish the last parts of my initiation in September.

Returning to Inanna After Breast Cancer: My Transformational Story

This video is inspired by the Ishtarfest 2024 presentation “Become your own (s)hero like Ishtar with transformational stories” by Lori Angel Nagel. I used her transformational story template to tell my story of how my breast cancer journey brought me closer to Inanna.

A Solo Improv Scene Inspired by the Six of Arrows (Babylonian Tarot)

I originally posted this to Instagram before I realized that normal landscape videos and are frowned upon there.

This is an improv exercise I came up with to practice between classes. I draw a tarot card and then perform a short scene based on the card. The card for this one is the 6 of Arrows from the Babylonian Tarot. I played an old-timey doctor who is attempting to treat a patient who presented with an arrow to their shoulder. (I literally just acted out the scene pictured on the card. I need to get better at “A to C” thinking).

It’s not great acting by any means, but I really like how I was able to combine three of my biggest interests: Mesopotamian religion, tarot, and improv!