EmberVoices
My name is Ember Cooke. I serve the Vanir - Freyja, Freyr, and Their kin - as a priestess, minister, teacher, bard, artist, medium, and witch. Or to put it the Heathen way, as a gythia, galdrakona, and seidhkona.
My personal practice is more diverse, as the Vanir have lead me into cross-training, interfaith work, and counseling for the wider Pagan community as needed. My friends and allies may span the world, but it is the Vanir I love as family. -E-
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Category Archives: Politics
Too Much Is Never Enough
CW: Misogyny, Assault, Sexual Assault, Mild Gender Binarism This video is powerful and important for anyone raised female (though it’s primarily appealing to cis-women, and has a few binaristic “huh?” bits in the end, due to it being primarily a … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Personal, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, #ShowMeGoddess, Beauty, Body Acceptance, Feminism, Freyja
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THIS FRIDAY: Support Trans Rights by Supporting Pagan Musicians!
I see exactly no downside to this opportunity: “[Bandcamp] will be donating 100% of our share of every sale on Friday, August 4th (from midnight to midnight Pacific Time) to the Transgender Law Center“ Source: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/07/31/this-friday-stand-with-bandcamp-in-support-of-trans-rights/ Need some ideas of … Continue reading
An Era of Failed Leadership
Originally posted on Strixian Woods:
I was reminded the other day that it has been a year since I’ve written a blog post. When I started writing this blog I had planned on at least writing a post once a…
Posted in Community, Ministry, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Coru Cathubodua, Leadership, Look What I Found!, Pagan Leadership, Pagan Ministry, politics, RESIST!
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In This Time of Upheaval, Hold Together #SafetyPin
I wish to create safer space. If you too wish to create safer space, wear a simple, unadorned #SafetyPin on your person. Mine is pinned to my purse so that it is always with me wherever I go. –Ember–
Posted in Community, Interfaith, Ministry, Personal, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged #SafetyPin, Community, Emotion, Ethics, Look What I Found!, politics, privilege, Religion and Spirituality, Safe Space, Safer Space, Self Work, Vanic Values
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Election Prayer – VOTE!!
This is a modification of an Election Prayer I wrote 8 years ago to present in a pre-election interfaith service. I believe we need it again now: Elhaz – Manaz – Tiwaz – Jera Call we now the children of … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Community, Interfaith, Land Spirit Work, Ministry, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged American Founders, Ancestors, Election, Election Prayer, Founding Fathers, Founding Mothers, Interfaith, Prayer, VOTE!
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Triggers, Allergies, and Content Labels
Here is another in my series of “things I see a lot across the web that I want to address”. This one is less directly about religion, although since the Pagan movement has a lot of marginalized people in it, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Personal, Politics, ST4R
Tagged Accommodation, Allergies, Allergy, Anxiety, Content Labels, Disability, Emotion, Ethics, Flashback, Food intolerance, Food Sensitivity, Hypersensitivity, Panic Attack, politics, privilege, PTSD, SPD, Trigger Warning, Vanic Values
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“Fluid Is My Gender”
For National Coming Out Day, I present to you a guest post and collaboration with my dear friend and colleague, Dee Shull. They shared with me this poem, and I so loved it that I asked them if I could … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Crafts, Personal, Poetry, Politics, ST4R
Tagged Art, Dee Shull, Emotion, gender, gender fluid, genderfluid, Look What I Found!, National Coming Out Day, non-binary gender, Poetry, Self Work
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Women in Heathenry
Originally posted on mainer74:
Women In Heathenry You know, I thought we were getting it right. OK, for all of those who like to talk to me about white privilege, I will freely acknowledge I know nothing about growing up…
Posted in Community, Lighthearted, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Asatru, Feminism, Heathenry, Look What I Found!, Lorrie Wood, politics, The Troth, Women in Heathenry
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On Closed Traditions
(Edited to Add Note: This is not an essay about the history of Christianity and Judaism. They are merely familiar examples of traditions which people recognise as generally open and closed, respectively. There is no way I could possibly summarize … Continue reading
Declaration 127: Boycott the AFA
Huginn’s Heathen Hof has organized a declaration, signed by many different Heathen and some Pagan or other Polytheist groups, declaring our intent to boycott the Asatru Folk Assembly. They are calling it Declaration 127. Here is the meat of it: … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Community, Folkism and Racism, Interfaith, Ministry, Personal, Politics, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged #notinmypaganism, AFA, Anti-Semitic, Asatru Folk Assembly, Boycott, Declaration 127, Ethics, family, Folkish, Folkism, gender essentialism, Heathenism, Heathenry, homophobia, Huginn's Heathen Hof, Look What I Found!, QUILTBAG, Racism, Racist, Religion and Spirituality, The Troth, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Values
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 