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June 2021

June 07, 2021

How We Can Support LGBTQIA+ Rights

Never forget that Pride was a riot.

June 03, 2021

Ambiguous Grief, Mourning Living Parents

I realize it wouldn’t be fair to sit here writing this for you all without...

May 2021

May 29, 2021

The Time I Visited The Underworld

The hard truth is that I don’t have all the answers. Hell, I don’t have...

May 12, 2021

Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants

There is a fine line between healing and killing: the difference lies only in the...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Seven Books on Death

I'm frequently asked to recommend books on the topic of death, dying, mediumship, grief, and...

April 03, 2021

Autonomy Over Integrity

Coven leaders don't get a pass just because they hold rituals in their homes instead...

March 2021

March 24, 2021

Just a Scapegoat Living Deliciously

We might be ye olde witch cult, but we aren't like, a cult-cult, ya know?

March 15, 2021

The Spring Riot

The spring equinox, it is said, is a time when night and day are in...

March 01, 2021

Nightshades and Necromancy

It isn’t hard at all to add a little death magic to your daily life,...

February 2021

February 12, 2021

Review: Egregores

One of most important but little known concepts of Western occultism is that of the...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

A Blanket Fort of Torches

As my coven family and I gathered on February 1st 2020 for the Feast of...

January 15, 2021

Dear Mortellus: How Do I Protect Myself?

You have all the tools you need to protect yourself from unwanted spirit influence -...

January 13, 2021

Do I Have to Wear Black? It’s Your Funeral

In the funeral industry “Christian” has somehow come to mean dignified, as though non-Christian funerary...

January 06, 2021

Come Hell or High Water

Until we invent an empathy chip, we’re just going to have to keep listening to...

January 02, 2021

Dear Mortellus: How do I know if I’m a Necromancer?

The dead, generally, don't need our help. Instead they're here to give it, and we...

December 2020

December 18, 2020

Reimagining Santa for the Pagan Parent

We came to realize we preferred for them to come to understand Santa Claus in...

December 14, 2020

Fraud, Magic Grandmas, and “The Mighty Dead”

Perhaps one day, when all our own books are failing the CRAAP test, Penczak, Mooney,...

December 07, 2020

The Necromancer Gift Guide

A little help in finding the perfect holiday gift for the Necromancer in your life.

December 04, 2020

An Interview with Arcane Bull$#!T

I felt as we spoke that this was truly the big takeaway from Arcane Bull$#!T....

December 02, 2020

Yes Lupita, There is a Claus.

To bring a spirit into your heart and to act out its will is no...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Harvest Home Blessings, and Magic Cookies

Instead of a diatribe on the origins of the holiday, or talk about why I...

November 22, 2020

Review: Halloween Oracle

I really quite like this deck. The cards are beautifully sized, the detail on the...

November 12, 2020

Home For The (Pagan) Holidays, If Only in My Dreams

"Home for the holidays" has never felt more loaded with implication than it does in...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Death and the Solitary Hallows

This Hallows I urge you to contemplate knowledge that can only be gained in death,...

October 25, 2020

Yes, It’s Political, and If You’re Voting For Trump? I’m Judging You.

I'll remember that your vote wasn't for Trump at all, that it was for a...

October 16, 2020

Dear Mortellus: Where Are All The Dead?

Anonymous Asks: Why is it that some people can see/experience ghosts in places that are...

October 09, 2020

An Interview with Morningstar Books

Books have always been something very special to me, especially when they are blank. The...

October 05, 2020

The Witchies, and Other Shiny Things

I bet there’s a lot of awesome folks out there who may not realize someone...

October 03, 2020

Sigil Making and an Interview with That Kentucky Witch

It’s always good to think outside the box, especially in these uncertain times when there's...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Thirty Day Sigil Challenge, Part Two

This month I've had the immense pleasure of teaming up with That Kentucky Witch for...