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: Community
Help a Norse/Celtic Pagan Woman Get to Cancer Treatments!
Nan is a dear friend and sometimes teacher of mine, a longtime supporter of RedWood Vanatru, and a beloved member of my local and extended Pagan community. She is is fighting stage 3 breast cancer and needs gas money to … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ministry, Personal, Praxis
Tagged Charity, Community, Help Community, Look What I Found!, Nan
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Sometimes Ravens Fly
I have left Hrafnar. It feels a lot like moving the last of my stuff out of my parent’s house. I haven’t lived there in a long time, but I never stopped thinking of it as home. Until I did. … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ministry, Personal, Praxis, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged Community, Emotion, Ethics, Heathenism, Hrafnar, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Vanic Conspiracy
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Help Restore a Queer/Nonbinary Pagan Mentor’s Teeth!
My friend and former mentor, the nearly-legendary, green-locked, community “instigator” known as Wolfwomyn (amongst other names) has recently had some serious health problems that stole several of their teeth and almost took out an eye! While the worst of it … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ministry, Personal, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Charity, Community, Help Community, Look What I Found!, Support Pagan Artists
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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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Isolation Won’t Help
I keep running across a particular narrative online, and occasionally in person: “There are bad things in the world. Isolate yourself to avoid harm!” “Other people don’t agree with you. Isolate yourself to avoid being tainted by them!” “Anything unapproved … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Community, Interfaith, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Community, Devotional Polytheism, Emotion, Ethics, Isolation, politics, Religion and Spirituality
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Walking with Freyja: On Having It Together
Yesterday I visited the park and grounds around the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. It’s been a very long time, and I had not remembered just how many little esoterically-saturated spaces they had designed there, which are open to the public every … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Community, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Ministry, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Community, Divination, Ethics, Freya, Freyja, privilege, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, Self Work, Trance Work, Vanic Values
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Help a Norse/Celtic Pagan Woman Avoid Homelessness!
My dear friend and teacher Nan is up against a wall this month. She doesn’t need a huge amount of help compared to some funds I’ve promoted, but she needs it fast! If you can help out, even just a … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Personal, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Charity, Community, Help Community, Nan
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Help! Local Pagan Child Hit by a Car!
http://www.gofundme.com/rj3rgpz4 Orion is the son of Sandy, a woman I know who is dear to our community and many of my friends. Orion was struck by a car while walking his bike in a crosswalk on his way to school. … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Personal, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Charity, Community, Help Community, Orion
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Tarot of Bones – Pagan Artist Indiegogo Campaign
Lupa Greenwolf is doing some amazing work on a Tarot deck based on photographs of her beautiful animal-parts assemblage work. Her Indiegogo campaign for the Tarot of Bones started today. The only down-side I can see is that I might … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Crafts, Lighthearted, Tarot
Tagged Assemblage, Bones, Community, Crafts, Indiegogo, Look What I Found!, Lupa Greenwolf, Pagan Art, Support Pagan Artists, Tarot, Tarot of Bones
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Portals – Pagan Music Indiegogo Campaign
Portals My friends Sharon Knight and Winter (aka Pandemoneaon) have collected pretty well all of my favorite Pagan and Pagan-friendly musicians and quite a few amazing artists into a fantastic Indiegogo campaign to get an album, music video, and possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts
Tagged Alexander James Adams, Betsy Tinney, Caith Threefires, Community, Crafts, Dan Cantrell, Faun, Heather Dale, Indiegogo, Laura Tempest Zakroff, Look What I Found!, Mark Abbott, Maxine Miller, Morpheus Ravenna, Music, Nathaniel Johnstone, Neofolk Romantique, Pagan Music, Pandemonaeon, Portals, Sharon Knight, Shauna Aura Knight, SJ Tucker, Sonja Drakulich, Stellamara, Support Pagan Artists, Tempest, Tim Rayborn, Tricky Pixie, Valerie Herron, Wendy Rule, Winter
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 