Category: chatter

Holy Groves, Batman

October 10, 2025

From reclaimed church bricks to spirited soul-retrievals with Loki and Thor—how I raised a humble, living vé in my own backyard.

Blood Quantum and the Double Standard

August 11, 2025

When people are committed to division, they’ll find any excuse. And blood quantum? That’s one of the ugliest. I saw a post today in a subreddit. Someone wanted to practice Norse Paganism so they joined a discord room only to get told they weren’t “Scandinavian enough.” The response in the subreddit was perfect: “Anyone who […]

Finding My Way Back: Navigating Between Worlds

August 5, 2025

I walked into the hall of the grotto to see feathers flip upward. I heard them as they went, and looked at a man weighed down with sorrow. He asked me to “turn back time”, bent so I could see his weathered face, and I… patted his cheek because he was so sad and tried […]

Reassessment

August 1, 2025

I had a spiritual journey months ago. I’d found how to dance, how to fly, how to world walk. And then as a newbie awakening shaman with no guide the way you should have, I became a prey animal. I was attacked early on and never knew it. I was pushed and used. I could […]

Three Fires of the Medicine Lodge

August 7, 2024

The Midē´wiwin. This is the “official” society for the mide, or the shaman. It’s Ojibwe in origin, but the religion has been spreading so that it even touches the coasts where my own people were originally from. They’re supposedly secretive. I’ve seen public lodge pages and drum circles you can pay to go to. The […]

Vindication

June 10, 2024

Language studies, music, and telling stories are my mundane focuses. I used to act as well, but in life you sometimes have to choose. I’d act again if the chance came, but for now I concentrate on things I can reach. I was taking a Montauk language class. Good people. Montauk is classed as Algonquian-Y, […]

Medicine is in all of us.

May 17, 2024

Before I start to get deep into things, I realized (while steam cleaning the floor) that I needed to start with my lineage, and why it’s important to you. I have a lot of reasons why I’m proud of who my ancestors were, and why I keep talking about it, oh, everywhere. I think my […]

Aquy nitôp (Hello, friend)

May 2, 2024

01 – The Obligatory Introduction Agh Now that I have the blog built and I’m ready to go, all the fanciful paragraphs I’d thought up have flown away like so many scattered flutterbies. Where do I go from here? Well, let me start by telling you who I am. I’m Spearcarrier – I recently started […]