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May 2016

May 14, 2016

The Path of She: Enlightenment as a Verb – The Process of Becoming Lighter

We don’t go from a wounded state to an evolved, healed state in one leap....

May 13, 2016

Happily Heathen: Food for Thought – Heathen Polytheist Theology

Heathen theology is still relatively young. What are the questions it should address? What would...

May 11, 2016

The Cartomancer: The Reading on Point

The fortuneteller doesn't care about your feelings. She wants you to see what is happening.

May 10, 2016

Witch on Fire: Crafting Sovereignty at the Grand Sabbat

This Beltane, we brought both the pomp and ceremony of High Witchcraft plus the nitty-gritty,...

May 09, 2016

Star Made Witch – Know Thyself

Perhaps the most pervasive and least understood advice in witchcraft is Know Thyself from the...

May 08, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Mama Magic Rising

Courageous, healing, and resilient, my Mother is a force of nature. Born of her, I...

May 07, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: Old at Beltain

We just celebrated Beltain, perhaps the most "hands on" Sabbat of the year. But, what...

May 06, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Panic Mode

Have you ever gone into a panic about a perceived danger only to find out...

May 04, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: So You Want to be a Pagan Farmer

Do you dream of being close to the land? As the sun warms the northern...

May 03, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Oak, Ash, and Thorn – the Evolution of Belief

Beliefs are not static things, they grow and they evolve. Some beliefs can be traced...

May 02, 2016

Seeking the Grail: Beltane Blues

Beltane used to be easy for me. When I was new to Paganism, I knew...

May 01, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: A Practical Mantra Enchantment

Need a simple enchantment to get the juices flowing? Here is a type of mantric...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: How Do We Become Indigenous?

We are called to belong. Humans evolved from communally living apes, our closest relatives in...

April 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: A Defense of Sacred Kingship

Several years ago, I took a trip out into the sticks for a Beltane ritual....

April 28, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Under the Hill

What is the meaning of this column’s title, The Blooming Staff? For a long time...

April 27, 2016

The Cartomancer: Your Second Chance

If you’re genuinely asking yourself, once part of a group, ‘Why am I here?’, then...

April 26, 2016

Witch on Fire: Beltane Lovers – Once you Go Witch You’ll Never Switch

This is MODERN witchcraft, where we strip off the mask of the obvious, and glory...

April 25, 2016

Star Made Witch: Walpurgis Night

The eve of May is also called Walspurgis Night (from Walspurgisnact in German and Dutch)...

April 24, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Ethical Spiritual Intercession

In times of trouble, our own wishes, needs, hopes, and fears are easily conflated with...

April 23, 2016

The Path of She: A Beltane Meditation – Life-making with the Green Man

For everything there is a season, and Beltane is the time to embrace your life-making...

April 21, 2016

Wyrd Words: Vikings in the New World

There’s been quite a buzz going about the Heathen community about the three "newly discovered"...

April 19, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Beltane and the Gifts of Darkness

Bealtaine is a holiday that celebrates both the dark and the light, just as life...

April 18, 2016

Seeking the Grail: Negotiating Boundaries

Issues with boundaries come up a lot with leadership, but that's because they come up...

April 17, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Magic is a Full-Contact Experimental Sport

Even if a magican, priest(ess) or shaman correctly created something and spirits imbue a talisman,...

April 16, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

What can we do to stop Elder Flight? What can we do to keep our...

April 13, 2016

The Cartomancer: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Staying in your power is not about staying in symbolic power, which amounts to being...

April 12, 2016

Witch on Fire: HB2 – There’s a Safe Pot to Piss in at the End of the Rainbow

This bill isn't really about transgendered people, or what pots they piss in, but it...

April 12, 2016

Star Made Witch: Shakespeare and the Stars (Book Review)

Learning planetary magic and astrological systems hasn’t come easy to me. So when our channel...

April 10, 2016

The Blooming Staff: “I Say Unto Thee, Arise!” – Emerging from the Tomb in the Aeon of Horus

There are other synchronicities, personal, ethical, and spiritual, that pushed me to finally visit my...

April 09, 2016

The Path of She: Claiming Your Personal Leadership – A Grassroots Vision of Change

The world needs us to show up to the essential work of creating a more...