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
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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.
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