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: Lon Sarver
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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Gang Aft A-Gley
Originally posted on Drinking From the Cup of Life:
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley–and also those of polytheists. For our August devotional, I’d planned for Thiasos Bakkheios to have a high-woo trance journey, so that…
For Orlando
Originally posted on Drinking From the Cup of Life:
Awake, you ancestors and mighty dead! Awake, throw open the doors to your halls! New souls come to join you Souls who died in lead and blood There are new ancestors…
Posted in Abuse, Ancestors, Community, Interfaith, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Ancestor Reverence, Ancestors, Death, Emotion, Ethics, gay, GLBT, LGBT, Lon Sarver, Look What I Found!, Orlando Shooting, politics, privilege, Queer, QUILTBAG, Rest In Peace
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Please, help my family!
I’m trying not to panic, because panic never helps. I, personally, am cared for in my primary household. This is my secondary household, my family-of-heart, my lover Lon Sarver, his partner, and their son. And I can’t fix this for … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Personal, ST4R
Tagged Emotion, Ethics, Help Community, Lon Sarver, Pagan, Support Pagan Artists
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PantheaCon 2016 – See You There!
I’m running or helping run three rituals this year at PantheaCon, which is being held once again at the San Jose DoubleTree hotel on Presidents’ Day weekend, February 12-15th. There are WAY too many amazing things on the program this … Continue reading
Posted in Divination, Interfaith, Ministry, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Cara Freyasdaughter, Devotional Polytheism, Dionysos, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyja's Aett, Freyr, Lon Sarver, Nerthus, Njordh, Pagan, PantheaCon, PantheaCon 2016, Religion and Spirituality, Thiasos Bakkheios, Trance Work, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanir
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David Bowie is Dead
Originally posted on Drinking From the Cup of Life:
One more leaves the sunlit lands One more feasts in the hall of the ancestors David Bowie is dead I remember riding the bus with Ziggy I remember dancing with the…
Posted in Ancestors, Personal, Poetry, ST4R
Tagged Ancestor Reverence, Ancestors, Death, Emotion, Lon Sarver, Look What I Found!, Music, Poetry
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Many Gods West – Closing and Aftermath
The closing ritual was every bit as wonderful as the opening ritual. I had the opportunity I was sure I needed, to acquire some of the collected dirt to take home. And that was it, we were done. Many Gods … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Divination, Gnosis, Interfaith, Land Spirit Work, Lore, Ministry, Mysteries, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R
Tagged Apollo, Aslan, Camilla Laurentine, Devotional Polytheism, Dionysos, Lon Sarver, Many Gods West, Pagan, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, River Devora, Vanic Values, Xochiquetzal
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Many Gods West – Sunday Afternoon
Finding Freyja – Ember Cooke By all accounts, my Finding Freyja ritual went quite well. I had a good dozen or so attendees. Several expressed to me that the ritual was just exactly what they needed. That Lon was going … Continue reading
Posted in Gnosis, Lore, Mysteries, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Devotional Polytheism, Freyja, Heathenism, Lon Sarver, Many Gods West, Pagan, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Trance Work, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Values, Xochiquetzal
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Many Gods West – Saturnight
I’ve been posting two events per post, but these last two I think I should do separately. Filled With Frenzy – Bakcheion I’m SO glad Lon and I attended the revel for Dionysos! Not that there was much danger of … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Interfaith, Personal, Praxis, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged Bakkos, Devotional Polytheism, Dionysos, Dver, Emotion, Finnchuill, Lon Sarver, Many Gods West, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Sannion, The Anomolous Thracian, Trance Work, Vanic Values, Xochiquetzal
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Many Gods West – Saturday
So, Saturday. Those who know me know I’m not much of a morning person, so alas, I missed the first two presentation slots entirely, which is sad, as I was actually very interested in several of them! But it would … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestors, Dreams, Gnosis, Interfaith, Land Spirit Work, Lore, Ministry, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Ancestor Reverence, Ancestors, animism, Cathubodua, Coru Cathubodua, Devotional Polytheism, Divination, Emotion, Heimlich A. Laguz, Hex Magazine, Home, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Lon Sarver, Many Gods West, Morpheus Ravenna, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, The Morrigan, theology, Trance Work, Vanic Values
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 