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June 2016

June 14, 2016

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Pagan Parenting and the Orlando Mass Shooting

With a prayer and sound advise, Crabtree explores how to talk to children about the...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Why Your Family Coven Should Watch THE PASSION and How

Watching The Passion provides an opportunity to give exposure to Christian ideals while ensuring that...

March 06, 2016

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Family Coven and The Laws of Magick

Crabtree uses the Laws of Magick to demonstrate how Family Coven is a wealth of...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: To Santa Claus or Not to Santa Claus? – Evidently that is the Question!

“I told her, mommy,” he says with complete exasperation, “Santa Claus was just God dressed...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Pagan Parenting – Terrorism, World Violence and Ritual

Violence that has shredded this world has an uncanny way of effecting children. As parents...

November 12, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Pagan Parenting and Cultural Appropriation – A Story

This is an attempt to write a story that explains how cultural appropriation happens and...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Pagan Parenting and Divorce

If the people separating could have agreed on things then the need for separation would...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Parenting and the Confederate Flag

I am related to Robert E. Lee. My family was wrong. We take down this...

June 2015

June 14, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Parenting and Caitlyn Jenner – Sexual Identity and Tolerance

Sexual identity has been thrust into the news these past weeks as Bruce Jenner officially...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: What are We Fighting For?

Our heroes and heroines come to us on the tidal waves created by thousands of...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Indoctrinating Against Indoctrination

It's not enough to simply tell your children about other faiths while helping them to...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: WooWoo Scale 2.0, Part 2 – Parenting to the WooWoo

Does your child have an imaginary friend or see things that others can't see? How...

February 09, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Woo Woo Scale 2.0, Part 1

What is WooWoo and how might we evaluate it? Lydia MN Crabtree presents her version...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Parenting Around Bill Cosby and Sexual Violence News

Crabtree shares insights gleaned from her talks with her sixteen-year-old boy about the Bill Cosby...

December 08, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Parenting Around #Ferguson and Social Justice News

When faced with my son’s frustration and hopelessness about racism, I sought the advice of...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Family Coven, the NFL, and Council of Mothers

I encourage Family Covens to seek out and name a Council of Mothers for their...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Mayan Connection – A Lesson on Important Dreams

I woke from my dream knowing that something significant had happened, that Divinity had spoken...

July 14, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: The Mayan Connection and Ritual Social Activism

Family Covens are uniquely posed to understand the desperation of parents in Honduras, El Salvador,...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Consistency and Family Coven

Consistency in Paganism isn't created by passing the plate and creating an infrastructure of people...

June 16, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Family Coven and Chronic Illness

I suffer from a genetic disorder that often wreaks havoc in my life. Lately, I...

June 02, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Family Coven Can Be Enough

Family Covens openly accept: We may not know. We do not have to know. We...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Power Is Not Enough

If God was everywhere in everything and in everyone, then this High Priestess was threatening...

May 05, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Family Coven – Blood Is Not Enough

Part of my struggle is knowing that how I frame my involvements with family, covens,...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Good Parents = Good Kids?

I have had to accept that my expectations of my son are setting up resentment...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

The Fish Rots from the Head Down: Squid Eye and Sexual Exploitation

Crystal Blanton's words resonated with me: “We as pagans excel at attacking the micro issues...

March 24, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Gentle Bigotry & Freedom FROM Religion

We all must combat our own unspoken, gentle racism. When you speak, make sure your...

March 10, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Current Events, Electronics, Tolerance and Your Children

The kitchen table is the most powerful magical tool a Family Coven has. Use it...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Praise the Champion; The Law and When to Break It

Parenting to tolerance is more than raising children who docilely follow the crowd or behave...

February 10, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Barbara Walters, Dylan Farrow and Woody Allen

Crabtree discusses the recent public letter written by Dylan Farrow regarding Woody Allen's alleged abuse...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Words Have Power

As witches, neo-pagans, spiritualists, heathens, druids or simply people who believe that we are affected...