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: Reference
My Core Theology: A Meditation on Existence
At my core, I am a pantheist as well as a polytheist and animist. I believe that everything comes together to a greater consciousness, a greater Being. Over the years, I’ve meditated and pondered and written and dreamed about how … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Crafts, Gnosis, Mysteries, Personal, Poetry, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Reference, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged animism, Beauty, Belonging, Brighid, Doing, Emotion, Freyja, Frith, Gratitude, Hella, Love, Meditation, Pagan, pantheism, Personal theology, polytheism, Trust, Valknot, Vanic Values
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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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Glossary Updated
For those of you who care for such things, I added a new section to my Theological Glossary, for common theological attributes to divinity, such as “Omniscient” and “Transcendent” or “Immanent”. Enjoy! -E-
Posted in Interfaith, Lore, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, Reference, ST4R
Tagged Administrative, Glossary, theology
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When Godphones Ring – Discernment for Pagans
One of the things I get asked a great deal by people both in person, and online, is how to know when to trust the voices in their heads. This is an essential question in every mystical tradition, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Animal Spirit Work, Dreams, Ministry, Praxis, Reference, Trance Work
Tagged Ancestors, Devotional Polytheism, Discernment, Divination, Emotion, Ethics, godphone, gods, Magic, Meditation, Mediumship, Religion and Spirituality, Seidh, Self Work, spirits, Trance Work, Vanic Values
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Dealing With Tricksters
It’s not always obvious to people that I work with Tricksters all that much. People who know me personally pick up on it, but other than that, it doesn’t occur to people immediately. Yet the domains I relate to the … Continue reading
A Theological Glossary
Here are the definitions of the various Theisms and related technical terms as I understand them, with links to Dictionary.com (or, for newer words, Wikipedia) for comparison, when available. Some of these refer to specific movements historically (or at least, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Reference
Tagged agnosticism, atheism, definitions, deism, duotheism, Glossary, henotheism, immanence, monism, monotheism, nontheistic, omnitheism, panentheism, pantheism, polytheism, rationalist, Religion and Spirituality, syncretism, Theism, theology, transcendence, trinitarianism, unitarianism, universalism
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Possession Trance Experience Spectrum
In my previous trance post I linked to Raven Kaldera’s outline of the levels of deity assumption. The possession spectrum I trained with through Hrafnar and Seidhjallr describes more differentiations between Shadowing and Possession, and uses the metaphor of two … Continue reading
Posted in Praxis, Reference, Trance Work
Tagged polytheism, possession, possession trance, Seidh, Trance Work
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Types of Spiritual Trance
As a hard/devotional polytheist at the mystical, spirit-working, “high-woo” end of the spectrum, trance work is a major aspect of my religion. I practice it. I read about it. I teach it. I guard other people while they practice it. … Continue reading
Posted in Praxis, Reference, Trance Work
Tagged Ethics, Religion and Spirituality, Seidh, Trance Work
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Basic Spiritual Skills
I thought about posting this here after PantheaCon, because I’m bound to have encountered a lot of questions by next Monday. But it occurred to me that it might actually be helpful to folks if this were available to them … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Praxis, Reference
Tagged Casting a Circle, Centering, Cleansing, Crowning, Grounding, Grounding and Crowning, Healing, Meditation, Purification, Self Work, Sheilding, Trance Work
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Heathenry from a Vanatru perspective
First of all, what is Heathenism? Heathenism is modern Reconstructionist Scandinavian and/or Germanic Paganism. (Slavic Reconstructionism is also sometimes included, and certainly has great similarities, but I don’t know nearly as much about it… yet!) Can you unpack that? “Reconstructionist” … Continue reading
Posted in Folkism and Racism, Politics, RedWood Vanatru, Reference
Tagged Asatru, Folkism, Heathenism, Loki, Northern Tradition Paganism, Odinism, Vanatru, Vanic Values
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 