Divining with Animal Guides: Answers from the world at hand

Understand the meaning of messages in your daily encounters.

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Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess

Explore the wonders of animal wisdom and lore.

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[Invoking Animal Magic] is one of those books you can dip into and read a section that’s so full of interesting facts and ideas you’ll be mulling it over for the rest of the day ~ Before It’s News

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Excerpt from review of Divining with Animal Guides:

“I was delighted to discover that Divining with Animal Guides is not a cookbook dictionary, concretizing the ‘meanings’ of animal encounters. Author Hearth Moon Rising has created a manual for learning to observe and discern and ultimately, to shift our strictly human viewpoint. Only when we look at the context in which the animals offer us their messages are we able to fully understand their invitations and gifts.

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Interviews

Radio Program with Susun Weed

Susun Weed interviews Hearth February 27, 2018 about animal divination.

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I would recommend going through this book [Invoking Animal Magic] if you are a pagan and an animal lover. You will deepen your understanding of the creatures around you in some very interesting ways. ~ Leslie Linder, SageWoman

Latest Blog Post

Reading Postmodern Philosophy from a Gender Critical Framework

February 16, 2025

So I’ve scheduled an event on “X” to discuss postmodern philosophy. Postmodernism has been blamed for all the excesses of “woke” politics, particularly the idea that women are identified for oppression based on our adherence to sex stereotypes (gender) rather than our sex. But is postmodernism, actually, to blame, or are the genderists misreading postmodern philosophy as they have misread feminism, Marxism, intersectionality, and everything else?

I have selected as the first article for discussion “Points Against Postmodernism,” by Catharine MacKinnon. This has been an extremely influential article, which began circulating circa 2012 among radical feminists disgusted by the abusive behavior of the genderists. I accepted it uncritically when I first read it, being primed to hate anything “postmodern” since the 80s, when the word (to most of us) only meant bad poetry.

MacKinnon has since published a position paper endorsing all the talking points of the genderborg, but that doesn’t change the immense influence of the earlier paper amongst radical feminists. Thus, I chose this article as a starting place for discussion of the actual ideas of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Deleuze, etc. Does postmodern theory actually support the contentions of gender ideology?

Reading Postmodern Philosophy from a Gender Critical Framework. Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 1:00 pm EST.

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