vvitch, please!
  • About Me
    • About Me
    • The VVitch is Back
    • Start Here
    • As Seen On….
    • Disclosure & Privacy Policy
  • Contact Me
  • Chronic Illness
    • Chronic Illness

      My Experience with Humira

      April 15, 2019

      Chronic Illness

      Chronic Illness: Dissolution by Degrees

      December 14, 2018

      Chronic Illness

      Chronic Illness: the Groundswell

      September 25, 2018

  • Lifestyle
    • All Adventures Beauty Education Spiritualism
      Beauty

      Pravana Red Shadow Roots

      October 17, 2018

      Adventures

      Celebrating My 30th Birthday

      February 26, 2018

      Spiritualism

      5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern…

      January 1, 2018

      Adventures

      5 Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary on a…

      May 28, 2017

      Adventures

      Celebrating My 30th Birthday

      February 26, 2018

      Adventures

      5 Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary on a…

      May 28, 2017

      Beauty

      Pravana Red Shadow Roots

      October 17, 2018

      Education

      Using Education to Reach the Next Chapter

      December 13, 2014

      Education

      The Crossroads: Change Springs Eternal

      November 23, 2014

      Spiritualism

      5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern…

      January 1, 2018

  • Travel
    • All North America
      North America

      My Anniversary Weekend in Nashville, Tennessee

      July 18, 2019

      North America

      Visiting West Palm Beach, Florida

      April 24, 2019

      North America

      A Wedding in Bensalem, Pennsylvania

      September 9, 2017

      North America

      A Weekend Visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

      September 6, 2017

      North America

      My Anniversary Weekend in Nashville, Tennessee

      July 18, 2019

      North America

      Visiting West Palm Beach, Florida

      April 24, 2019

      North America

      A Wedding in Bensalem, Pennsylvania

      September 9, 2017

      North America

      A Weekend Visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

      September 6, 2017

  • Photography
    • Photography

      The Winged Lion Fountain of Savannah, Georgia

      October 20, 2018

vvitch, please!
  • About Me
    • About Me
    • The VVitch is Back
    • Start Here
    • As Seen On….
    • Disclosure & Privacy Policy
  • Contact Me
  • Chronic Illness
    • Chronic Illness

      My Experience with Humira

      April 15, 2019

      Chronic Illness

      Chronic Illness: Dissolution by Degrees

      December 14, 2018

      Chronic Illness

      Chronic Illness: the Groundswell

      September 25, 2018

  • Lifestyle
    • All Adventures Beauty Education Spiritualism
      Beauty

      Pravana Red Shadow Roots

      October 17, 2018

      Adventures

      Celebrating My 30th Birthday

      February 26, 2018

      Spiritualism

      5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern…

      January 1, 2018

      Adventures

      5 Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary on a…

      May 28, 2017

      Adventures

      Celebrating My 30th Birthday

      February 26, 2018

      Adventures

      5 Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary on a…

      May 28, 2017

      Beauty

      Pravana Red Shadow Roots

      October 17, 2018

      Education

      Using Education to Reach the Next Chapter

      December 13, 2014

      Education

      The Crossroads: Change Springs Eternal

      November 23, 2014

      Spiritualism

      5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern…

      January 1, 2018

  • Travel
    • All North America
      North America

      My Anniversary Weekend in Nashville, Tennessee

      July 18, 2019

      North America

      Visiting West Palm Beach, Florida

      April 24, 2019

      North America

      A Wedding in Bensalem, Pennsylvania

      September 9, 2017

      North America

      A Weekend Visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

      September 6, 2017

      North America

      My Anniversary Weekend in Nashville, Tennessee

      July 18, 2019

      North America

      Visiting West Palm Beach, Florida

      April 24, 2019

      North America

      A Wedding in Bensalem, Pennsylvania

      September 9, 2017

      North America

      A Weekend Visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

      September 6, 2017

  • Photography
    • Photography

      The Winged Lion Fountain of Savannah, Georgia

      October 20, 2018

Tag:

heathenism

5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern World: true practice is a little more nuanced than we're lead to believe.
Spiritualism

5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern World

by Sarah Birdsong January 1, 2018

It’s not easy for me to pinpoint when I became a heathen. I knew organically, even in my youth, that I was drawn to animism, to ideas lacking supraregional rules and institutions. With the internet and the local library at my disposal, seemingly without real effort, I fell upon reading material speaking of the customs of Pre-Christian cults and regional belief systems. And yet, of all the belief systems I read about, only the Germanic belief systems stuck with me. I gravitated towards a local belief system carried over from one generation to another. Devoid of dogma, strict hierarchies of gods, or beliefs. That beliefs and practices varied from town to town, household to household, enraptured my young mind.

Continue Reading
January 1, 2018 0 comment
18 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman
Featured

vvitch, please—a lifestyle blog

by Sarah Birdsong July 22, 2014

Here you will find a cat-loving vvitch puzzling over the world for want of wit; editor and copywriter by day, artist and drive-by writer by night. When I created this blog, I had every intention of making into a proper vehicle for my thoughts. In spite of this, I’ve found myself struggling with writing topics. As such, anything I post will likely be followed by intermittent silence.

Let’s start with an introduction.

To start, I was a prolific writer in my childhood; notebooks were filled to the brim with poetry and stories. However, my adulthood has seen my work leaning more technical than creative. And while I knew I wanted a professional writing career, I also knew that compensation for the life I wanted would be difficult to find.

In addition to my writing, artwork occupies a substantial premium in my life. From the moment I could hold tools in my dirty hands I’ve been creating. As I’ve grown my methods of creation have varied. For example, I had a brief pottery stint, I’ve dabbled with a sewing machine, I’ve painted, I’ve sculpted, and I’ve performed.

However, this blog is first and foremost a means of storing my thoughts on the following:

Continue Reading
July 22, 2014 3 comments
3 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail

Here, you'll find a disgruntled heathen puzzling over the world for want of wit; a restive nomad borne by desire for locations remote; a hedgevvitch subsisting off spontaneous prose in the concrete jungle.

Stay in Touch

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Popular Posts

  • Chronic Illness: the Groundswell

  • 5 Ways to Practice Heathenism in the Modern World

  • My Experience with Humira

  • vvitch, please—a lifestyle blog

  • Pravana Red Shadow Roots

No images found!
Try some other hashtag or username
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Youtube

© Sarah Birdsong and vvitchplease.com, 2017-2020. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Sarah Birdsong and vvitchplease.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.


Back To Top