Laurelei & I just got back from a Caribbean cruise vacation, and on the way driving down to the port of Miami we decided to make a stop ...

Tonight is the winter solstice, which doesn't have any direct holiday celebration in the Athenian Greek festival calendar, but does have...

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to kno...

It is difficult to picture the symbols of Athena without noting her constant avian companion the Athene noctua , or Little Owl. The Little ...

June has been a rewarding but exhausting month. I've been ill twice, and now that I am well I find myself combating a bout of depressio...

I've been looking forward to Plynteria for weeks! Plynteria, along with Kallynteria, are Athenian festivals of purification associat...

After what feels like an eternity the Alejandro Amenábar film “Agora”, based on the story of Hypatia of Alexandria , is finally seeing a lim...

I have applied to be an Exegetai of Athena through Neokoroi . Part of the process of admittance includes the submission of two articles ...

The love god with his golden curls puts a bright ball in my hand, shows a girl in her fancy shoes, and suggests that I take her. Not...

The Spring 2010 edition of Neokoroi 's quarterly publication He Epistole has just been released. It contains an excellent article on D...

I've been pondering the attributes that I takes to be a good Hellenic Polytheist, and the attributes that I value most within myself. ...

The festival of Mounukhia is concurrent with Beltane this year (May 1, Mounkhion 16, near the full moon) and I will be up to my knees in m...

I have applied to be an Exegetai of Athena through Neokoroi . Part of the process of admittance includes the submission of two articles to ...

Walter F. Otto in his oft-quoted work The Homeric Gods calls Athena "the ever-near" goddess: Only the 'bright-eyed intell...

As much as it pains my considerable vanity to admit it, I am overweight. Not "oh, golly, I sure could stand to lost ten pounds" o...

The poets call me the gray-eyed Goddess. Flashing-eyed. Sliver as the glint from a spear point. Wild with battle fury. But my sight is...

I hear the sound of your voice like pan-pipes laughing in my mind. The maenad in me awakens. I am drawn into your song. Spinning spind...

We are well into the City, or Greater, Dionysia festival, Elephb olion 10 -17. It is an annual festival celebrating the coming of spring an...

Today is the festival of Asklepieia, Elaphebolion 8, dedicated to Asclepius , the Greek God of healing . In addition to the usual libati...

I sing now of the gray-eyed Goddess and Her love for the virgin Pallas. Together grew these maidens, strong and lovely on the shores of Lak...