Divining with Animal Guides: Answers from the world at hand
Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess
This book is a jewel. It is much more than a book about the animal powers. It is a guide for how to open our perception to the world around us and broaden our ability to communicate with our co-inhabitants. ~ Susan Rossi, PaganPages
Reviews
PaganPages
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.
Interviews
Radio Program with Susun Weed
Susun Weed interviews Hearth February 27, 2018 about animal divination.
Divining with Animal Guides helps you more than a catalog book of meanings by teaching you to understand what the world around you and is saying. Taking such an in-depth view of the animal, and the history teaches us a new way to look around at what the animals are telling us. ~ Amber Barnes, Facing North
Latest Blog Post
Reading Postmodern Philosophy from a Gender Critical Framework
February 16, 2025So 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.