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: Emotion
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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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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Hail Keith “Cynan” Roberts! Rest Well, Old Friend.
Keith Roberts, better known to the extended SF Bay Area Pagan, Fandom, SCA, Poly, etc. communities as Cynan, died earlier today. I’m not up for writing a glowing obituary just yet. Cynan was a dear friend of mine, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Community, Personal, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged #FuckCancer, Ancestor Reverence, Ancestors, Beloved Dead, Death, Emotion, Keith Cynan Roberts, Pagan, Religion and Spirituality, RIP
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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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The Season of the Beloved Dead
This time of year is very important to me, as holiday after holiday explodes around my home lands, and my birthday approaches. Winternights, Samhain, Halloween, All Saints Day, Dia De Los Muertos… they’re not all the same, but there is … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Community, Interfaith, Lighthearted, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, Ritual, Seasonal, ST4R
Tagged All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, All Souls Night, Ancestor Reverence, Ancestors, Beloved Dead, Dia De Los Muertos, Emotion, Halloween, Look What I Found!, Pagan, Religion and Spirituality, Samhain, Winternights
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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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Mythology is a Finger Pointing at the Moon
Originally posted on Drinking From the Cup of Life:
The stories of the gods are not the gods. The descriptions of the gods given in those stories are not the nature of the gods. They are fingers pointing at the…
Posted in Community, Lore, Mysteries, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Emotion, Ethics, Experience, Lon Sarver, Look What I Found!, Lore, Mythology, Philosophy, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality
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There Is No Away
I’m ranting lately. It’s been a hard week in a hard month in a hard year, and I just want it all to go away. All the things I just can’t deal with, all the people who hurt me or … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ministry, Personal, Poetry, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Emotion, Ethics, privilege, Rant, Rants, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, There Is No Away
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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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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 