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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Tag Archives: Beauty
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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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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Reblog: Art, Beauty, and Permission
My friend and colleague Rev. Gina Pond posted this wonderful essay about the nature of art and beauty, and how our society jealously guards the boundaries of these concepts, to the detriment of pretty much everyone, but especially artists. As … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Personal, Politics, ST4R
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, Art, Beauty, Crafts, Fat, Freya, Freyja, Gatekeeping, Look What I Found!, Rev. Gina Pond
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A Message From Freyja: Pretty Is Not The Same As Beautiful
“Pretty” is not the same as “Beautiful”. “Pretty” has rules. “Pretty” has consequences. “Pretty” can tear you apart, flaw by flaw, and destroy you from the inside out. “Pretty” can also raise you up, when it’s a path to “Beautiful”. … Continue reading
Posted in Gnosis, Interfaith, Ministry, Mysteries, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged Beautiful, Beauty, Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera, Colbie Caillat, Freya, Freyja, India.Arie, Look What I Found!, Love, Music, Ochun, Oshun, Oxun, Pretty, Pretty Hurts, Try, Video
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Wish Me Luck and #ShowMeFreyja
Two things! 1: I just submitted my application to Stanford University’s Anthropology Ph.D. program in the hopes of studying Anthropology of Religion with them. Wish me luck! If you do that sort of thing, prayers/spells/good vibes are greatly appreciated towards … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Folkism and Racism, Personal, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, Beauty, European Gods, Freya, Freyja, Goddess of Beauty, People of Color, photo comp, photoshop, photoshop watercolor, Projects, Religion and Spirituality, School, Vanatru, Vanic Values, Vanir
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Beauty Beyond Size #ShowMeFreyja
Well this #BeyondBeauty campaign seems pretty compatible with my own goals: http://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/beyondbeauty/ (Sorry I’m not sure how to embed the site so the images show here if it’s not a video…) If you are a visual artist of some kind, … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged #BeyondBeauty, #ShowMeFreyja, Beauty, Body Diversity, Freya, Freyja, Goddess of Beauty, Plus Size, privilege, Projects, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Size Acceptance, Vanatru, Vanic Values, Vanir
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Beauty Beyond Gender #ShowMeFreyja
Lon came across this beautiful photograph taken by Shilo McCabe of genderqueer porn performer Jiz Lee draped in a feathered cloak: It reminded me very much of this image of Freyja by Maris Pai, which is one of my favorite portraits … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, Beauty, Freya, Freyja, gender, Gender Diversity, Genderqueer, Goddess of Beauty, non-binary gender, privilege, Projects, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Vanatru, Vanic Values, Vanir
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Beauty Beyond the Pale #ShowMeFreyja
A while back someone lamented (in a blog I can’t find again – argh!) that while European artists have happily depicted any and every god of the world as European people over the centuries, there’s precious little art available today … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Folkism and Racism, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, Beauty, European Gods, Freya, Freyja, Goddess of Beauty, People of Color, privilege, Projects, Racism, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Vanatru, Vanic Values, Vanir
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Freyja and Male Beauty
This came up elseweb, but I realized as soon as I wrote it that I should share it here as well: One of the things that Freyja has people do is stand in front of a mirror, naked, and compliment … Continue reading
Posted in Lore, Ministry, Mysteries, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged Beauty, Brisingamen, Emotion, Freya, Freyja, Freyjasmen, Heathenism
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 