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-
Vanatru Heathen
Become a Patron
Donate with PayPal
Tag Archives: Orixa
DPM 21: In My Dreams
I am going through the Devotional Polytheist Meme questions from Galina Krasskova’s blog, together with my lover Lon Sarver, over the course of several months. We encourage our friends to follow along, and welcome links to other people’s answers, as … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Divination, Dreams, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Mysteries, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, Seasonal, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged Animal Spirits, animism, Antler Brigade, Devotional Polytheism, Devotional Polytheist Meme, dream, Dreams, dreamwork, Frey, Freyr, God Consort, God Marriage, Godspouse, Landspirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Man Making, Orixa, Pagan, polytheism, Pool of Tears, RedWood Vanatru, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, Umbanda, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Values, Well of Tears
3 Comments
MWD: Beginning
My Month of Written Devotion is for the Spirit of the Santa Clara Valley Beginning I don’t know that the Santa Clara Mission is the center of the Santa Clara Valley, but it is most surely Her spiritual, beating heart. … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Spirit Work, Divination, Dreams, Gnosis, Land Spirit Work, Ministry, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Seasonal, ST4R, Trance Work
Tagged animism, Ayizan, Clemezin, Devotional Polytheism, dreamwork, Emotion, Home, journey trance, Land Spirits, Landvaettir, Landwights, Loa, Month of Written Devotion, Orixa, Pagan, Plant spirits, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Santa Clara, St. Clare, Umbanda, Vanic Values
1 Comment
DPM 20: Striving Imperfection
I am going through the Devotional Polytheist Meme questions from Galina Krasskova’s blog, together with my lover Lon Sarver, over the course of several months. We encourage our friends to follow along, and welcome links to other people’s answers, as … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Mysteries, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, Seasonal, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Dance, Devotional Polytheism, Devotional Polytheist Meme, Loa, Moving Meditation, Orixa, Pagan, polytheism, RedWood Vanatru, Religion and Spirituality, theology, Umbanda, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Values
1 Comment
Defining the Divine – Gods, Spirits, Powers, etc.
[This is a re-write of an old essay I composed several years ago and posted to my old blog on LiveJournal. I have since related this analogy on several occasions, including in conversations on posting boards. If it seems familiar, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Polytheistic Theology
Tagged colonialism, God, gods, Loa, Lwa, Orisha, Orixa, politics, polytheistic theology, polytheology, privilege, Religion and Spirituality, theology
3 Comments
Be Unreasonable
Last night I did a long cleansing bath under the guidance of the Orixa whose service I was taught in American Umbanda. After the bath, I meditated for quite a while, counting my breaths in batches of 8, for Obatala, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Praxis, Trance Work
Tagged Divination, Emotion, Obatala, Orixa, Oxun, polytheism, Religion and Spirituality, Trance Work
4 Comments
EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 