I’m Chris Cook­ie (for­mer­ly known as Brecheen). Wel­come to my blog.

I’m just your typ­i­cal pur­ple-haired, non-bina­ry, promis­cu­ous, polyamorous, pan­sex­u­al, pagan priest of The Mor­ri­g­an who com­bines an eclec­tic blend of skill sets into being a mod­ern-day priest.

Priest of The Mor­ri­g­an

I’m pagan—which is weird because until I was called by an Irish deity called The Mor­ri­g­an in 2021, I was an athe­ist who had nev­er even heard of Her—or real­ly the Irish pan­theon at all. It’s been a whirl­wind few years com­ing to accept what was hap­pen­ing to me and adjust. There have been visions and dreams and a call­ing and I have been assigned a life­time of work—and this blog is part of that. I’m not an aca­d­e­m­ic, and I’m going to punt most ques­tions LIKE that, but I can share my own expe­ri­ence.

Writer

I’ve been writ­ing for forty years. I got a degree in cre­ative writ­ing, and went on to blog pro­fes­sion­al­ly about writ­ing for twelve years. There’s at least one book in me somewhere—under my duo­de­num, I think—but I need more time to write it. For over a decade, I wrote the blog Writ­ing About Writ­ing over on Blog­ger, and most of those arti­cles will end up here, so this will prob­a­bly always be one of my most pro­lif­ic top­ics.

Cer­ti­fied Per­son­al Train­er

As of one year ago, I am a Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Sports Med­i­cine Cer­ti­fied Per­son­al Train­er with a cer­tifi­cate from Dia­blo Val­ley Col­lege in Fit­ness Coach­ing. (I’ll be get­ting a cer­tifi­cate in Fit­ness Train­ing and an A.S. in Fit­ness Instruc­tion over the next cou­ple of years.) I will glad­ly take you along my expe­ri­ences, trails, tribu­la­tions, and tri­umphs as a CPT myself, as a run­ner, and gen­er­al­ly some­one strug­gling to bal­ance a seden­tary pas­sion (writ­ing) with an active one (fit­ness).

Tarot Prac­ti­tion­er

I’m still pret­ty new to tarot, and I need to dou­ble check a lot of the upside down mean­ings. But I’m REALLY good at the over­ar­ch­ing nar­ra­tive. And I don’t know how much you “believe” that tarot has some­thing “woo woo” going on, or is just sort an intu­itive glance into the uncon­scious psy­chol­o­gy through sym­bols and per­son­al inter­pre­ta­tion, but my read­ings tend to be very pre­scient.

Social Jus­tice Bard

There are social jus­tice war­riors; there are social jus­tice heal­ers; lots of social jus­tice rogues get behind you and you nev­er see them com­ing; I’ve even seen a social jus­tice sor­cer­er. But I’m a social jus­tice bard. I can do a lit­tle bit of fight­ing, a lit­tle bit of mag­ic, a lit­tle bit of stealth, a lit­tle bit of heal­ing, and I’m real­ly real­ly good at ana­lyz­ing the lan­guage and con­struct­ing or decon­struct­ing sto­ries. A lot of the writ­ing I do is about social jus­tice. Vio­lin skills need work, though.

Eth­i­cal Non-Monogamy/Polyamory

I don’t do monogamy. I prob­a­bly COULD, but I don’t. While how I live my own life should­n’t be a big deal, it ends up being a curios­i­ty to most. I get lots of ques­tions from peo­ple most­ly social­ized to believe that monogamy is the default, peo­ple who are new to polyamory, and peo­ple who see me. After twen­ty-five years, I have final­ly over­come juu­u­u­ust enough imposter syn­drome to write about it.

Future Roles

There are things I’ve been tasked to do (by The Mor­ri­g­an), but I can’t do them yet. I’m hav­ing to learn entire skill sets and cre­ate them one at a time—and rough­ly in order of impor­tance. So more things (like death doula, a mas­sage prac­tice in cran­iosacral mas­sage, and learn­ing skills in an Irish instru­ment) will be show­ing up here in time.

More

It’s also prob­a­bly worth know­ing a cou­ple of things I don’t keep secret, but they’re not like their own menu top­ics or any­thing. I am a can­cer sur­vivor (colon can­cer), and with­out drink­ing more than a dozen drinks in my entire life or ever get­ting hepati­tis, I man­aged to go into ear­ly stage kid­ney fail­ure. I screen both these things reg­u­lar­ly and I’m okay right now, but the last four years have been a strug­gle, I had some hos­pi­tal­iza­tions, and I near­ly died a cou­ple of times.

I also can­not do this on my own. Check out the [Cast and Crew.]