This is the first of a couple of blogs Deaf Pagan Crossroads will be posting about The Fifth Sacred Thing movie project – an effort by well know Pagan teacher, leader, and author Starhawk to bring her book to the silver screen. Several of these blogs will include videos created by Starhawk and her team. [...]
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The Fifth Sacred Thing
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Cinema, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Earth Day, Eco-Psychology, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Healing, Magick, Nature, Paganism, Spirituality, Universal Issues, Video Posts, witchcraft, Women, Women's Spirituality on Saturday August 20 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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. [...]
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, [...]
In Celebration of Litha
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Earth Day, Irish/Celtic, Magick, Music, Nature, Paganism, Photography, Poetry/Prose, Sabbats, Spirituality, Video Posts, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Tuesday June 21 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Once again I introduce you to the beautiful photography of my on-line friend “Witches Sky,” which she has put together in this video celebrating the Sabbat of Litha. As always, this video is accessible to deaf and hard of hearing Friends of the Crossroads. Enjoy.
A Child’s Look At the Summer Solstice
Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Earth Day, Healing, Irish/Celtic, Magick, Nature, Pagan Blogs, Paganism, Sabbats, Spirituality, Video Posts, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Tuesday June 21 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post contains a video about a children’s book. Scroll down to watch the video, which is accessible for deaf and hard of hearing Friends of the Crossroads. Enjoy, and have a wonderful Summer Solstice! In a prior post, I introduced my readers to Pagan author Edain Duguay, who has written a number of children’s books focusing [...]
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 [...]
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Ocean is the creator & manager of this blog. Born deaf into an all-hearing family, she was raised oral and attended hearing schools. Ocean began learning sign language at the ripe old age of 16, and after meeting a Deaf man began her own journey through Deafhood. She graduated from Gallaudet College (now University), and has held positions both within & outside of the field of Deaf Services.
Ocean has been a practicing Pagan for 30 years, and considers herself "an eclectic witch," with a primary focus on Celtic Spirituality, but an interest in many different areas. A skilled tarot reader, she once donated her services to help raise funds for a Domestic Violence agency. She has also done workshops on aromatherapy, herbalism, & Paganism for the Deaf Community.
As a passionate advocate, Ocean often speaks out on the need for greater access for Deaf people (Pagan or otherwise) - interpreters, captioned videos, CART, etc...and works to build bridges between the Deaf & Hearing communities.
She lives not far from her hometown on the banks of the Ohio River with her two cats, Karma & Gandalf.
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