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: Animal Spirit Work
RedWood Vanatru Daily Prayers
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here regularly for a variety of reasons. I’d like to get back to it, but I admit, my spoons and motivation for this kind of writing have been low for a while now. … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Animal Spirit Work, Community, Crafts, Land Spirit Work, Poetry, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Reference, Ritual, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged basics, Music, Prayer, Sigdrifa's Prayer, Sigrdrifa's Prayer
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DPM 21: In My Dreams
I am going through the Devotional Polytheist Meme questions from Galina Krasskova’s blog, together with my lover Lon Sarver, over the course of several months. We encourage our friends to follow along, and welcome links to other people’s answers, as … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Divination, Dreams, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Mysteries, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, Seasonal, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged Animal Spirits, animism, Antler Brigade, Devotional Polytheism, Devotional Polytheist Meme, dream, Dreams, dreamwork, Frey, Freyr, God Consort, God Marriage, Godspouse, Landspirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Man Making, Orixa, Pagan, polytheism, Pool of Tears, RedWood Vanatru, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, Umbanda, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Values, Well of Tears
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MWD: Dark
My Month of Written Devotion is for the Spirit of the Santa Clara Valley Dark It’s hard to write of the dark of the year right now. It’s too soon after Midsommer. Recently, Freyr has requested that I spend my … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Animal Spirit Work, Dreams, Land Spirit Work, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Seasonal, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged animism, Antler Brigade, Dark, Devotional Polytheism, Emotion, Home, journey trance, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Month of Written Devotion, Pagan, Plant spirits, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, Vanic Values, Winter
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MWD: Light
My Month of Written Devotion is for the Spirit of the Santa Clara Valley Light Here in my Valley, the light and the water are rivals, and the plants and animals take sides. The animals follow the light, traveling North … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Land Spirit Work, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Seasonal, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged animism, Devotional Polytheism, Emotion, Home, journey trance, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, light, Month of Written Devotion, Ostara, Pagan, Plant spirits, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, Spring, Summer, Sunna, Vanic Values
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MWD: Beginning
My Month of Written Devotion is for the Spirit of the Santa Clara Valley Beginning I don’t know that the Santa Clara Mission is the center of the Santa Clara Valley, but it is most surely Her spiritual, beating heart. … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Divination, Dreams, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Ministry, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Seasonal, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged animism, Ayizan, Clemezin, Devotional Polytheism, dreamwork, Emotion, Home, journey trance, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Loa, Month of Written Devotion, Orixa, Pagan, Plant spirits, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, St. Clare, Umbanda, Vanic Values
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MWD: Together
My Month of Written Devotion is for the Spirit of the Santa Clara Valley Together Across the Valley, Across the water Along the line of shore or sky Where in the waking world I ride In dreams I walk, or … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Crafts, Divination, Dreams, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Ministry, Personal, Poetry, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Seasonal, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged animism, Devotional Polytheism, dreamwork, Emotion, Home, journey trance, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Month of Written Devotion, Pagan, Plant spirits, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Vanic Values
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MWD: How Do I Know Her?
My Month of Written Devotion is for the Spirit of the Santa Clara Valley How Born and raised here, all my life Between the hills and bay Though I may wander, Home is here I’m rarely long away. I can … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Crafts, Dreams, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Personal, Poetry, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged animism, Antler Brigade, Devotional Polytheism, Emotion, Home, journey trance, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Month of Written Devotion, Pagan, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Vanic Values
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Reblog: To Honor the Land is to Deal with the Dead
Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove:
Some friends were having a discussion with Sannion last night and as I was passing through (swamped with preparations for my upcoming trip), he mentioned one of the things they were discussing and it…
Encountering Outside Powers
I had a great conversation recently with a former student of mine. We were talking about the challenges of balancing human ethics with spirit etiquette. How do we avoid cultural appropriation when a Power from a culture to which we … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Dreams, Gnosis, Interfaith, Ministry, Personal, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged cultural apropriation, Devotional Polytheism, Discernment, Ethics, Interfaith, politics, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Spirit Work, Trance Work
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How Ember Became A Polytheist (And Eventually, Vanatru) 3/5
(Read part one here, and part two here.) By Samhain of 2002, I was ready to try again on finding my proper spiritual path. My friend and then-teacher Wendy was in a NROOGD coven that was presenting a public Samhain … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Animal Spirit Work, Gnosis, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, Ritual, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged Emotion, Heathenism, Hrafnar, Pagan, Personal Journey, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Trance Work
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 