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: Trance Work
New Song! Seeking Odr
The other day while driving home, a new song for Freyja dropped into my head. When I got home, I holed up with my tablet to work out the verses, and a few hours later I had the whole thing … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Gnosis, Lore, Poetry, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged #ShowMeFreyja, Alfheim, Alflord, Ancestors, Asgard, Crafts, Devotional Polytheism, Emotion, Freya, Freyr, Frigga, Ginnungagap, Heimdallr, Hel, Helheim, Hella, Horn, Jotunheim, Ljosalfheim, Mardoll, Music, Niflheim, Nornir, Odin, Odr, Pagan, Poetry, polytheism, Projects, Religion and Spirituality, Seidh, Skadhi, Svartalfheim, Trance Work, Utgard Loki, Vanadis, Vanaheim, Vanatru, Vanic Values, Vanir
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Seeress: Nan Edwards Boyster
This is my friend and sometimes-teacher Nan Edwards Boyster. Nan is, simply put, Good People. She’s also one of the small handful of readers I go to when I need outside divination, confirmation or clarification on my own work, or … Continue reading
Posted in Divination, Ministry, Praxis, Ritual, ST4R
Tagged Divination, For Sale, Look What I Found!, Nan Edwards Boyster, Oracular Seidh, Seidh, Support Pagan Artists, Trance Work, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Values
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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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PCon Crash
PantheaCon went well, by and large. Never without incident, of course – there’s waaaaaay too many people there for that to ever be the case. But far more good than bad. Being me, and hypercritical, and moody in February, I … Continue reading
Posted in Divination, Interfaith, Ministry, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Devotional Polytheism, Dionysos, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyja's Aett, Freyr, Nerthus, Njordh, Pagan, PantheaCon, PantheaCon 2016, Religion and Spirituality, Thiasos Bakkheios, Trance Work, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanir
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PCon Prep
PREPARE ALL THE THINGS! WAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! That is all. –Ember–
Posted in Divination, Interfaith, Lighthearted, Ministry, Personal, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, Ritual, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Devotional Polytheism, Dionysos, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyja's Aett, Freyr, Nerthus, Njordh, Pagan, PantheaCon, PantheaCon 2016, Religion and Spirituality, Thiasos Bakkheios, Trance Work, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanir
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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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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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Forming the Tree
This is another of those very rough pseudo-verse poems that was dropped on my head a while back. The talk of how the wells and wyrd and memory intertwine with life and death seemed relevant to it, so I have … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Divination, Dreams, Gnosis, Poetry, Polytheistic Theology, Praxis, RedWood Vanatru, ST4R, Trance Work, Vanatru
Tagged Cosmology, Devotional Polytheism, Nine Worlds, Poetry, Religion and Spirituality, Seidh, Trance Work, Vanatru, Vanic Conspiracy, Vanic Edda, Vanic Values, Vanir, Well of Wyrd, Worlds Tree, Wyrd, Yggdrasil
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EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir 