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: Self Work
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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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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“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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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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A Skald’s Ears
A skald is given an agile tongue, to sing stories for the entertainment and education of all, this you know. A skald is also given ears, to listen, or where will the stories come from? When a person raises their … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Community, Folkism and Racism, Gnosis, Interfaith, Ministry, Personal, Politics, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Divination, Emotion, Ethics, Freya, Freyja, privilege, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Trance Work, Vanic Values
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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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Rev. Gina Pond and Sarah Thompson #ShowMeGoddess
Beautiful new pictures of Rev. Gina Pond as an alternative depiction of a Goddess (which one? We’re not sure yet!) taken by her wife Sarah Thompson: If this isn’t right up the #ShowMeFreyja alley, I don’t know what is! –Ember–
Posted in Crafts, Interfaith, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, Ritual, ST4R
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, #ShowMeGoddess, Body Positive, Ethics, Freyja, Gina Pond, Look What I Found!, Rev. Gina Pond, Sarah Thompson, Self Work
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On Holding Space
Read This Article. Seriously. Read it. Read the whole thing. If you do any kind of counseling, or clergy work, or even just group work in a sensitive context, then, like me, Holding Space is a skill you need to … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Praxis, Ritual, ST4R
Tagged Emotion, Ethics, Look What I Found!, Pagan, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Vanic Values
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Hurts So Good
“Have you ever loved somebody so much it hurts?” “Every time.” –Ember–
Posted in Mysteries, Personal, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, ST4R, Vanatru
Tagged Devotional Polytheism, Emotion, Freya, Freyja, Love, Religion and Spirituality, Self Work, Vanatru, Vanic Values
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What Frith Isn’t – A Rambling Rant
Frith is not just etiquette. It’s not about saying what people want to hear so they don’t get upset. It’s not about avoiding making too much noise. It’s not about keeping your head down and going along to get along. … Continue reading
Posted in Folkism and Racism, Ministry, Personal, Politics, Praxis, ST4R
Tagged Emotion, Ethics, Folkism, Heathenism, politics, privilege, Racism, Religion and Spirituality, Ryan Smith, Self Work, Steven Abell, Vanic Values
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 