A FIELD GUIDE TO PAGANS, WITCHES, AND WICCANS Gerald Gardner’s witchcraft has undergone many changes due to its emergence as the favored “alternative religion.” As with any religion that becomes popular, people start adapting it to suit their own requirements, purposes, and agendas. This leads to the formation of many offshoots…or, if you will, denominations. [...]
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Field Guide to Pagans & Witches
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Broom Closet, Empowerment, Ethics, Healing, Humor, Magick, Paganism, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Sunday July 17 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Field Guide – Part One
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Broom Closet, Empowerment, Ethics, Humor, Magick, Paganism, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Sunday July 17 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Please note: This guide is intended as tongue-in-cheek humor. Take it as you will. Christo-Wiccan The Christo Wiccan is merely a sheep in Wiccan clothing. This person has not shaken the fetters of Christianity and does not want to. In fact, they basically have taken Christianity, changed a few nouns (e.g. “jesus” is now “Goddess,” [...]
Field Guide – Part Two
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Broom Closet, Empowerment, Ethics, Humor, Magick, Nature, Paganism, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Sunday July 17 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Please note: This guide is intended as tongue-in-cheek humor. Take it as you will. Green Meanie Another offspring of the Marxist Socialist movement of the late 60′s/early 70′s, these are the radical environmentalists, the militant vegans, and the people who have copies of the Mother Earth News from * before * they accepted ads for [...]
Field Guide – Part Three
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Broom Closet, Empowerment, Ethics, Humor, Magick, Paganism, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Sunday July 17 2011 | 2 Comments »
Please note: This guide is intended as tongue-in-cheek humor. Take it as you will. McWiccan I coined the term “McWiccan” after encountering a person who asked “What is a Book of Shadows?” and, less than a month later, claimed to be an HP initiated by someone who was trained by Buckland (see “Glam Wiccan”). Unfortunately, [...]
Another Video Captioning Option
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, Video Posts on Sunday May 29 2011 | 2 Comments »
Recently I’ve put up a couple of posts here at the Crossroads about captioning your videos…an issue which – as a Deaf person myself – is near and dear to my heart, as well as an important one for many deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Since many people do use YouTube for downloading their [...]
The Pagan Community and Deaf Access
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, Women's Spirituality on Thursday May 19 2011 | 7 Comments »
(photo showing sculpture of the sign “relationship/connect”) As my Crossroads readers know, this blog is my attempt to merge my identity as a Deaf person with my Pagan spirituality. Some of my posts focus on Deaf issues, some of my posts focus on Pagan issues. And some of them focus on both. That merger of [...]
Pagan Deaf Access Letter part one – “Clarifying the Laws”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Thursday May 19 2011 | 1 Comment »
(graphic showing sign language pictures for “law obey must you”) Greetings Ocean, We are writing you in hopes of giving you a better understanding about our organization and how our event and community work. That’s not the issue here. You keep trying to divert away from the real issue by making irrelevant arguments about how [...]
Pagan Deaf Access Letter part two – “Who Knows Best?”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Thursday May 19 2011 | 2 Comments »
(graphic showing a person’s head with a tree and roots growing in the brain area) As previously explained to you, our event exists because of the VOLUNTEER support of the participants – not in spite of them. Please, we encourage and support and welcome and invite you to work with us in coordinating and establishing [...]
Pagan Deaf Access Letter part three – “Demanding or Advocating?”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Thursday May 19 2011 | Leave a Comment »
(photo of the ASL sign for “advocate”) On its face, you appear to make demands for your needs without considering the sacrifices others similarly situated have made in coming to our event to assist in creating such spaces/activities/micro-communities. You would rather have others do for you, when you seem to be ideally the individual who could [...]
Pagan Deaf Access Letter part four – “Damaging, Demanding…or just Deaf?”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Thursday May 19 2011 | 2 Comments »
(photo of a woman’s face with an angry demanding expression, pointing a finger out) We ask that you not try to damage our event for what it is. At this point in time, the gathering cannot happen any other way than we’ve described above. You must know that Pagan communities, organizations, churches across the country [...]
Pagan Deaf Access Letter part five – “We Love You but…”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Broom Closet, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Thursday May 19 2011 | 8 Comments »
(photo showing hands bending together to make a heart, framing an ocean sunset) Finally, Ocean, we send you: an invitation to work with us for our event next year, as we have described above; acceptance of who you are as a Pagan and as a member and spokesperson for/on behalf of the Deaf Community; energy [...]
Walking the Path
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Broom Closet, Empowerment, Ethics, Healing, Paganism, Poetry/Prose, Ritual, Spirituality, Universal Issues, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Friday May 13 2011 | 1 Comment »
Well, it had been yet another bad day in the office, and once again it was the fault of that new girl, MaryAnne. She is one of those Wiccans, a so-called Witch. How can anyone in their right mind make this claim, knowing that it goes against God and all of the teachings of the [...]

This sculpture shows the sign for "connect"...and that is what Deaf Pagan Crossroads is all about - making connections. Connections between Deafhood and Paganism, connections between the Deaf Community and the Hearing Community, connections between myself as the writer and you as the reader. I hope you will take the time to read my various posts, some of which are listed below. Welcome to the Crossroads, and I hope you make some connections here!
