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October 2016

October 02, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Extended Spellwork and Self-Compassion

So, I have been doing magic, every day for two hours for 20 days. Connecting...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: Opet, Autumn, and the Wanderer

What does the common cultural motif of the god in disguise testing mortals' hospitality have...

September 28, 2016

The Cartomancer: How to Read Cards for the Secret

One of the first things that I teach my university students is that if literature...

September 27, 2016

Book of Blackbirds: Honouring Sacred Spaces, Part Three – Saving Space

Many sacred spaces are seriously threatened and under attack right now, and I don't just...

September 26, 2016

Star Made Witch: Benefits of Being a Traditional Witch

A witch learns through the practice of magic, a confidence that their fate is in...

September 25, 2016

Book of Blackbirds: Honouring Sacred Spaces, Part Two: Personal Space

The truth for me personally is that I do not feel any overwhelming desire or...

September 24, 2016

The Path of She: Mastering Dreamwork – Four Telltale Markers of Daytime Dreams

Daytime dreams can be just as potent as nighttime dreams in revealing the soul-sourced roots...

September 23, 2016

Happily Heathen: My Heathenry

The recent discussions around definition and limitations in Heathenry got me thinking about my own...

September 22, 2016

Outside the Circle: Why Stealing Bones Matters – The Aftermath Of Stupid

By now, many of us have read the story of the arrest of Ender Darling,...

September 21, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Shaming Pagans – Sincerity Does Not Equal Competence

There was a discussion about John Halstead’s article, Gods Save Us from Bad Pagan Rituals:...

September 20, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Decorating With Death

We each fashion our own language out of symbols and objects which speaks as loudly...

September 19, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: For the Love of the Gods (Book Review)

There have been a rash of more or less scholarly books about the origins of...

September 18, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Vision and Movement – Rising Above the Gossip

Rarely do we openly talk about power and exclusion, but we need to start having...

September 17, 2016

The Path of She: Gifts of the Hera’s Journey – Four Spiritual Lessons for the Fall Season

In the Fall season, the hera’s journey provides invaluable teachings that can help you navigate...

September 16, 2016

Book of Blackbirds: Honouring Sacred Spaces, Part One: Other Space

The judgement of who does or does not have the right to visit the sacred...

September 15, 2016

Wyrd Words: The Real Story Behind ‘Camp Courage’ And The AFA

Many Heathens awoke on the morning of September 2nd to the news that the Asatru...

September 14, 2016

The Cartomancer: K. Frank Jensen

Exactly a week ago the world of Tarot lost a grand magus and man of...

September 13, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Praise Ialdabaoth!; or, Notes Toward a Treatise on Averse Gnosticism

In his essay "Base Materialism and Gnosticism," French philosopher Georges Bataille extols the potential value...

September 12, 2016

Star Made Witch: Excerpt from the Witch’s Sabbath

There is a place and time that witches fly their souls to where they do...

September 11, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Gifts from the Heart – An Autumn-Spiced Guided Meditation

As autumn approaches I am increasingly aware of relationships that are functioning well, those that...

September 10, 2016

The Path of She: A Fall Equinox Mystery – Persephone and the Ways of the Sacred Feminine

At the Fall Equinox, Persephone awaits you at the opening to the Underworld, offering up...

September 09, 2016

Happily Heathen: Dealing with Discrimination – What’s An Inclusive Heathen Supposed To Do?

I’ve been Heathen since 1999. In that time, I’ve been to a lot of Heathen...

September 08, 2016

Outside the Circle: Meet the Dark Shadows of the Autumn Equinox

The sun sets earlier now. We start to hear the rustle of tree tops, reminding...

September 07, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Who’s Responsible for Speaking Out Against the AFA

Paganism is a Eurocentric thing. Non-european indigenous religions seem to prefer not to be called...

September 06, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Álfatrú – Believing in the Hidden Folk

Labels are always a fun game to play in Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenry, what-have-you. Within the...

September 05, 2016

Seeking the Grail: A Song of Death

It shouldn't surprise me; nobody gets out of here alive, as they say. But death...

September 03, 2016

Cauldron, Sword, Spear, & Stone: The All-Father of Irish Myth – 21st Century Lessons from The Dagda

The “All Father” is a figure found in many Pantheons. From Zeus to Odin, from...

September 02, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Keek-Stane (Part 2)

I made other magickal tools, and gave up on scrying as an object of desire......

September 01, 2016

Wyrd Words: Did the Vikings Have Totem Animals?

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, here on Agora! There's...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

A Lakeside Hearth: Organized or Independent?

No matter what you do in Heathenry, you're doing it wrong. Heathen practice is wide...