Mastodawn

DATE: November 24, 2025 at 05:07PM
SOURCE: Angela Raincatcher Substack and Polytheism Today Podcast
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TITLE: Small Business/Artist Holidays

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/small-businessartist-holidays

Greetings, Friends!

As we move into the holiday season, remember that Jeff Bezos and the Walton family do not need any more of your money but independent artists, like myself, would be over the moon if you purchased their art to gift to your friends and family.

Here are a few ways that you can purchase my work:

I have two linocut/monoprint pieces for sale through the Maryland Art Place’s Under 2500. You can find them (and many other wonderful artworks by Maryland artists) here. Do a search for “Angela” and my work will pop up for you. This virtual sale benefits Maryland Art Place and is active through Friday, November 28, Midnight. If they are still available after that, you can buy from me direct by emailing me at angela.raincatcher@gmail.com.

I also have a few new prints available: Dapper Raven (5” x 8”) and Our hearts are too large (5” x 7”). Both are available with a black mat for $30 each, including shipping in the U.S. You can order those directly from me via PayPal. Please make sure to add the name of the work along with your name and mailing address.

You can also buy images of my work as art prints and on t-shirts and other merch at my Nine Ravens store at Redbubble.com.

If you are interested in any of my oracle decks, you can find them at The Game Crafter. However, if you are local to DC/Baltimore region, you can order the North American Animal Wisdom Oracle from me directly, and I’ll arrange delivery at no charge.

And last but not least, if you have seen any of my pottery on Instagram that entices you, send me an email inquiry or DM.

Blessings from a full and open heart,

Angela

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/small-businessartist-holidays

Substack blog articles can be found at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/

Polytheism Today podcast site at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/s/polytheism-today You can also find Season One here!!

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Consciously Pagan since the late 1980s, Angela Raincatcher is a spirit-led artist and Pagan priestess. Angela has been a priestess and community organizer since the early 2000s. She is currently the convener of the public ritual group Connect DC, head of the Artist Guild and a 3rd-degree initiate in the Order of the Elemental Mysteries. At heart, Angela is an animist and an equal-opportunity polytheist. In her endeavors and life journey, she leads with a strong and open heart, and strives to treat all living beings with the respect they inherently deserve.

Polytheism Today explores the rich diversity of the divine as experienced in our modern world by polytheists from a variety of spiritual traditions. You and all your gods are welcome here!

All content is free. If you can help cover costs, subscriptions are $5/mo. and can be found at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/about . You can also buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/angelarainu

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Small Business/Artist Holidays

Buy from an independent artist -- like me!

Angela Raincatcher

MistressPrime

Nov 11

Join Us for Our Monthly Dinner Gathering! 🍽

Orange County, California Pagans, Witches & Heathens

✨ Date: Wednesday, November 12th
✨ Time: 7:00 PM
✨ RSVP: Meetup.com/OCPagan

Connect with fellow #Pagans, #Witches & #Heathens over great food & conversation! All paths are welcome. 🔮✨
#paganism #witchcraft #heathenry #druidry #pagancommunity

Angela Raincatcher/PT Podcast Sep 24

DATE: September 24, 2025 at 07:36AM
SOURCE: Angela Raincatcher Substack and Polytheism Today Podcast
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TITLE: Living with Uncertainty

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/living-with-uncertainty

Greetings, Dear Friends!

It’s been a while. I wish I were more regular in my writing. I often open up a new post and then *brain freeze* and my brain won’t hold onto words, thoughts, or any kind of coherent thought.

But I’ve been doing a lot of reading and art making. If you’re on Instagram, I’m @angela.raincatcher (original, I know), and I show most of my artwork and daily short musings there.

Back in May, I visited Greece and had a very intense experience praying to Hades at the Plutonian Cave at Eleusis, of which I will talk more later, but today I want to share a few thoughts on life and death.

Offerings at the Plutonion at Eleusis/Elefsina, Greece

As we move into the season of dying, increasing darkness, and the returning cold of winteram I talking about the changing of the seasons or the current administration and its continuing destruction of everything good and precious in this work?I contemplate the nature of life, both corporeal and incorporeal.

We talk about death as if it were the opposite of life, but it is not. It is a threshold and state change in the phenomenon of life. Death is the end of this corporeal stage of life the time that we spend in this body, in this time, and in this place. Just as birth was its beginning. Life continues on and on, just in different ways and on different dimensions.

Both birth and deathlike all liminal spacesare uncertain, filled with potential, unknowable, dangerous, and sacred. They are both initiations, taking us from one state or stage of life to another, unknown until we cross that threshold. Throughout life we are faced with initiations, or rites of passage. Usually, we can easily talk to someone who has entered puberty, graduated, gotten married, started a family, retired, to get a sense of what to expect. And those people can tell us about their experience, butlike all Mysteriesno matter what we are told or what we think we know, we cannot know without stepping through and crossing the threshold ourselves.

So, I have my thoughts about death, what life might look like after death, the nature of the spirit and soul, and what happens to them as we cross the thresholdand I want to share those sometime soonbut do I know 100%? No, and I can’t until I make that crossing. No one can, even if they have communication with their gods and spirits. They can talk to us all about the afterlife all day, but just like a long-married person telling someone single about being married, we won’t actually know until we go there ourselves.

And don’t worry. . . We will all cross that threshold and see it for ourselves.

Blessings from a strong and open heart,

Angela

Living with Uncertainty

Birth, Life, Death — It’s a Mystery!

Angela Raincatcher

Laura Perry Jul 8

New interview. Rachel asked some great questions - I love it when interviewers follow their own interests instead of sticking to standard-issue questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG1RNnegY3A

#Minoan #polytheism #paganism #pagan #spirituality #PaganCommunity #AriadnesTribe

Minoan Gods, Sacred Astronomy & the Roots of Modern Paganism w/ Laura Perry

YouTube

Lithellyl Apr 8

I need your help guys!

Was doing a meditation and Hecate brought me this message, part of it I think I know what it means, the rest I don't

Any input would be grateful

She told me
The Spiral and the Stones
The Three and the Tree
In the Labyrinth there is the skull
Look to the Star in the mirror
The Silver Needle
You are at the crossroads
Open the Door!"

So the Spiral and the Stones I am sure refers to the Craft and where we hold our sacred space
The Three is obviously herself, the Tree, I think means the World Tree
The Star specifically meant the tarot card,
The crossroads again Herself as well as where we are in time

I have no idea what She means by the labyrinth and the skull or the silver needle, any thoughts?

Thanks in advance and Blessed Be!

#pagan #PaganCommunity #paganwitch

Angela Raincatcher/PT Podcast Mar 20

DATE: March 20, 2025 at 07:00PM
SOURCE: Angela Raincatcher Substack and Polytheism Today Podcast
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TITLE: 529 CE was not a good year

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/529-ce-was-not-a-good-year

Earlier this week, I finished the book “The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World” by Catherine Nixey. And while Nixey is an engaging and accessible writer, the content of her book is gutting especially if you are a polytheist and/or Pagan, both of which (as you no doubt know) I am.

Let me just start with the very last paragraph of the book to give you a sense of what I mean:

The lovely statue of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, suffered as badly as the statue of Athena in Palmyra had. Not only was she beheaded, she was then, a final humiliation, placed face-down in the corner of a courtyard to be used as a step. Over the coming years, her back would be worn away as the goddess of wisdom was ground down by generations of Christian feet. The “triumph” of Christianity was complete.

Oof!

Ouch!

In clear, compelling prose, Nixey lays out how, in its first 200 years in authorityfrom Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in 312 CE to the legal prohibition of any teachers who “labored under the insanity of paganism” in 529 CEthe Church led a concerted and sustained campaign to destroy pagan religion, culture, and people. In story after horrific story, Nixey lays out how Christian clergy and monks incited angry mobs of disaffected men to tear down temples and schools, burn libraries, and harass and beat to death pagan priests, philosophers, and adherents. The now-Christian Roman Empire and its client states passed laws making it harder and harder to worship in any way but the new Christian way.

In less than 50 years after Emperor Constantine converted and stated that all religions should be tolerated, offering sacrifices to the gods became punishable by the death penalty. In another 50 years or so, pagan ceremonies were outlawed with the same cost (execution) for those who led them.

To many of these early Church fathers, including Augustine of Hippo (354-430CE), whose followers often operated outside the law and were never punished, the terror visited upon the pagan public was the point: “Where there is terror, there is salvation . . . Oh, merciful savagery!”

I had to read this book in short spurts as I found myself angered and depressed by turnsnot only because of tragedies of the past, but because of what we are facing today in the U.S. with the rise to power of authoritarian fascist would-be emperors, the destruction of our governmental institutions and the war on science perpetuated by DOGE, and the culture wars whipped up by Christian nationalists and white supremacists intent on dividing and controlling the masses. It was impossible not to see the parallels between then and now.

With less than 10% of all classical literature and knowledge surviving into the modern era, the history of the late Antique world rewritten and/or forgotten for centuries, and religious monotheist fanatics running roughshod above the law, I can only imagine in horror our future.

And of course, I wonder how we can preserve the scientific and medical knowledge we have gained in the last 200 years, how we can protect the rights and the lives of our most vulnerable and marginalized communities, and how we save ourselves and our Mother Earthand if we even can.

I don’t have the answer to that, but I believe in witnessing and not turning away. And I recommend reading Nixey’s book and talking with your communities and your loved ones about these issues.

Blessings from a strong and open heart,

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Consciously Pagan since the late 1980s, Angela Raincatcher is a spirit-led artist and Pagan priestess. Angela has been a priestess and community organizer since the early 2000s. She is currently the convener of the public ritual group Connect DC, head of the Artist Guild and a 3rd-degree initiate in the Order of the Elemental Mysteries. At heart, Angela is an animist and an equal-opportunity polytheist. In her endeavors and life journey, she leads with a strong and open heart, and strives to treat all living beings with the respect they inherently deserve.

Polytheism Today explores the rich diversity of the divine as experienced in our modern world by polytheists from a variety of spiritual traditions. You and all your gods are welcome here!

All content is free. If you can help cover costs, subscriptions are $5/mo. and can be found at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/about . You can also buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/angelarainu

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529 CE was not a good year

A Polytheist Book Review

Angela Raincatcher

Angela Raincatcher/PT Podcast Mar 16

DATE: March 16, 2025 at 01:28PM
SOURCE: Angela Raincatcher Substack and Polytheism Today Podcast
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TITLE: Community Mandala in Action

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/community-mandala-in-action

The community mandala created in collaboration with attendees at the 2024 Sacred Space Conference is up for auction to fund scholarships for the 2026 Sacred Space-Between the Worlds joint conference next February.

Place Your Bid

I wrote about the construction and symbolism of the mandala before, but there is a bit more on the auction website.

The finished painting is 36” x 36” and would sell for $975. I donated the piece to the Sacred Space Foundation to auction because I wanted this piece to support my spiritual community, not only culturally, energetically, and spiritually, but also financially (MALKUTH!!!)

By the way, I will be vending at this year’s conference under the auspices of Your Magick Aunties with the fabulous Ketzirah haMa’agelet, and I’m teaching a class (really more facilitating a conversation) on the topic “Loving the Ugly to Heal the Wounded Earth,” on Friday evening, 8:45pm - 10:15pm.

The description I wrote for conversation read, “Pollution, mining, and superfund sites are not pretty. But in order to love and heal our Mother Earth fully, we have to be willing to look at and excavate these wounds so that we can spiritually, energetically, and where possible physically clean them out. We have to love our Mother not just in her beauty and bounty, but also in her scars and her wounding. In this workshop, we will discuss how to find these wounded places close to where we live. We will explore how to interact safely with the spirits of a wounded place and craft magic and ritual to support their healing. We will also brainstorm ways to blend our magical work with physical clean-up efforts.”

I’m looking forward to seeing a bunch of you at the conference, and I would love to hear from those of you I won’t see.

Blessings from a strong and open heart,

Angela Raincatcher

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Polytheism Today podcast site at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/s/polytheism-today You can also find Season One here!!

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Consciously Pagan since the late 1980s, Angela Raincatcher is a spirit-led artist and Pagan priestess. Angela has been a priestess and community organizer since the early 2000s. She is currently the convener of the public ritual group Connect DC, head of the Artist Guild and a 3rd-degree initiate in the Order of the Elemental Mysteries. At heart, Angela is an animist and an equal-opportunity polytheist. In her endeavors and life journey, she leads with a strong and open heart, and strives to treat all living beings with the respect they inherently deserve.

Polytheism Today explores the rich diversity of the divine as experienced in our modern world by polytheists from a variety of spiritual traditions. You and all your gods are welcome here!

All content is free. If you can help cover costs, subscriptions are $5/mo. and can be found at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/about . You can also buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/angelarainu

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Community Mandala in Action

The community mandala created in collaboration with attendees at the 2024 Sacred Space Conference is up for auction to fund scholarships for the 2026 Sacred Space-Between the Worlds joint conference next February.

Angela Raincatcher

Angela Raincatcher/PT Podcast Mar 2

DATE: March 02, 2025 at 05:24PM
SOURCE: Angela Raincatcher Substack and Polytheism Today Podcast
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TITLE: Divine Diversity

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/divine-diversity

Last month, I spoke about divine diversity and inclusion at the Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society in Connecticut. I distilled my thoughts from a few episodes of Season 1 of the Polytheism Today podcast: What is Polytheism?, What is a God?, and Divine Diversity. I encourage you to check out those episodes if you enjoy this video.

I wish I could share with you the wonderful comments and conversations I had with congregation members after the service and during the fellowship. Some were curious and open to a perspective they had not considered before. Some were familiar with Wicca and were excited to hear about the gods in their church. Some wondered if I thought the gods were “real” and if they talked to me (the answer is “yes” to both). These comments and questions have given some a lot to think about, which may fuel future writing or podcast episodes.

With all that is going on in our current political climate in the U.S., I think it is vital for those of us who can speak publicly about polytheism, the diversity of the gods, and link that to diversity in our natural and cultural world, to do so. There is another way there are MANY other ways to be in relationship with each other and the world around us. Ways that are nurturing and liberating. Ways in which the whole person and the whole of existence is embraced and valued. I, for one, think that polytheism as an intellectual and spiritual construct and worldview is a way forward that we should consider. That’s my flag in the sand.

Blessings from a strong and open heart,

Angela Raincatcher

Divine Diversity

Diversity is healthy and natural -- whether we're talking people, nature, or the divine

Angela Raincatcher

Angela Raincatcher/PT Podcast Mar 2

DATE: March 02, 2025 at 05:24PM
SOURCE: Angela Raincatcher Polytheism Today Podcast
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TITLE: Divine Diversity

URL: https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/divine-diversity

Last month, I spoke about divine diversity and inclusion at the Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society in Connecticut. I distilled my thoughts from a few episodes of Season 1 of the Polytheism Today podcast: What is Polytheism?, What is a God?, and Divine Diversity. I encourage you to check out those episodes if you enjoy this video.

I wish I could share with you the wonderful comments and conversations I had with congregation members after the service and during the fellowship. Some were curious and open to a perspective they had not considered before. Some were familiar with Wicca and were excited to hear about the gods in their church. Some wondered if I thought the gods were “real” and if they talked to me (the answer is “yes” to both). These comments and questions have given some a lot to think about, which may fuel future writing or podcast episodes.

With all that is going on in our current political climate in the U.S., I think it is vital for those of us who can speak publicly about polytheism, the diversity of the gods, and link that to diversity in our natural and cultural world, to do so. There is another way — there are MANY other ways — to be in relationship with each other and the world around us. Ways that are nurturing and liberating. Ways in which the whole person and the whole of existence is embraced and valued. I, for one, think that polytheism as an intellectual and spiritual construct and worldview is a way forward that we should consider. That’s my flag in the sand.

Blessings from a strong and open heart,

Angela Raincatcher

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Polytheism Today podcast site at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/s/polytheism-today You can also find Season One here!!

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Consciously Pagan since the late 1980s, Angela Raincatcher is a spirit-led artist and Pagan priestess. Angela has been a priestess and community organizer since the early 2000s. She is currently the convener of the public ritual group Connect DC, head of the Artist Guild and a 3rd-degree initiate in the Order of the Elemental Mysteries. At heart, Angela is an animist and an equal-opportunity polytheist. In her endeavors and life journey, she leads with a strong and open heart, and strives to treat all living beings with the respect they inherently deserve.

Polytheism Today explores the rich diversity of the divine as experienced in our modern world by polytheists from a variety of spiritual traditions. You and all your gods are welcome here!

All content is free. If you can help cover costs, subscriptions are $5/mo. and can be found at https://angelaraincatcher.substack.com/about . You can also buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/angelarainu

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Divine Diversity

Diversity is healthy and natural -- whether we're talking people, nature, or the divine

Angela Raincatcher

Enfys J. Book [they/them]Feb 17

🌿✨ How can we make pagan spaces more inclusive?
 In the current extra-challenging climate for LGBTQ+ folks, it's more vital than ever that pagan spaces step up our efforts to include people of all gender identities. People come to magick wanting to become their most amazing selves—let's not stymie them by forcing them into outdated gender roles or making erroneous assumptions.

➡️ https://majorarqueerna.com/how-to-use-gender-inclusive-language-for-pagan-outreach/
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How to use gender-inclusive language for pagan outreach

You’re planning a ritual or event and want to ensure people of all genders feel welcome. But our understanding of gender is ever-evolving, as is the language surrounding it. How do write your…

Major Arqueerna