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December 2015

December 21, 2015

Seeking the Grail: The Answer is Love

The answer is love. I'm going to make space for love, for connection, for people...

December 20, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Why Is Yule like The Force?

The spiritual importance of Star Wars, at least for me, is that it showed us...

December 19, 2015

The Rantin’ Raven: Yule – The Turning of the Wheel

Those of us who choose to follow that spiritual "different drummer" give up a lot....

December 16, 2015

Dandelion Seeds: Leaning Into the Solstice Darkness

It's easy to get caught up in the the wild cycle of holiday hosting. Take...

December 15, 2015

Irish-American Witchcraft: Celebrating the Longest Night

It's not a major religious holiday for us, but its the children's favorite and probably...

December 14, 2015

Star Made Witch: Living with Honor by Emma Restal Orr

O-Books offered up several titles for columnists to review this month and I selected Living...

December 13, 2015

Wayfairing Woman: Actively Listening to the Spirits at the Dark Moon

In my experience, the dark stillness of this time is an invitation to engage with...

December 12, 2015

A Winter Solstice Meditation: Ereshkigal and the Great Below

Open yourself to the natural world energies of this longest night of the year and...

December 11, 2015

Happily Heathen: Love Notes from Freya

Clergy work comes in all forms. Sometimes it entails emotional one-on-one work with a member...

December 10, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: A Transgender Perspective on Gendered Mystery Rites

Reducing men's or women's experiences to a biological function is a dangerous oversimplification. There are...

December 09, 2015

The Cartomancer: The Sorcerer’s Cartomancy

Knowing yourself is not very interesting if it stops there, in self-knowledge. What is infinitely...

December 08, 2015

Witch on Fire: A Witch’s Carol: A Tale of Three Hauntings

I hope that my story of this haunting, affirms for you that Spirit is universal,...

December 07, 2015

Seeking the Grail: Why Jesus Talk Skeeves Me Out

My last post here was about me wrestling with religious intolerance and bigotry, and I'm...

December 06, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism and Healing

Since animists don’t turn a blind eye to the dark corners and dangers of the...

December 05, 2015

The Rantin’ Raven: The Second-Meanest Cat

Anyone who says that animals don't communicate -- that they can't form and carry out...

December 04, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Planting a Virtual Garden

As evidence to my faith, I know my computer responds to moods by the consistent...

December 03, 2015

Wyrd Words: Odin’s Greatest Enemy, Depression in a Heathen Context

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other...

December 02, 2015

Dandelion Seeds: Push Your Emotional Reset Button with Devotionals

The holidays are hard. In between Black Friday and Solstice Vigil squeeze in some time...

December 01, 2015

Irish-American Witchcraft: So you Want To Be An Ally

I see more and more people talking about being allies to different groups - and...

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 28, 2015

The Path of She: The Hero’s and the Hera’s Journey

As the seasons turn and darkness descends in the natural realm, the hera’s path beckons...

November 27, 2015

Happily Heathen: A Prayer Of Thanks For Njord And His Children

Thanksgiving has always been very secular holiday for me, so when it came time to...

November 26, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: Odin

Poet, wise man, grey-cloaked wanderer, one-eyed, wizard, warrior, king... when I decided to do Odin...

November 25, 2015

The Cartomancer: How to Discover Your Character in an Earthquake

We may think we know who we are and what we are, but as culture...

November 24, 2015

Witch on Fire: A Thanksgiving Transmutation of Tens

Right on cue, I had what some would call a crises of faith regarding my...

November 23, 2015

Star Made Witch: Automatic Writing

Witches use a variety of methods of trance induction and communication to correspond with the...

November 22, 2015

Wayfaring Woman: Working with a Spirit Ally

Wandering the worlds is a more pleasant and safe undertaking with trusted company along for...

November 21, 2015

The Rantin’ Raven: Not My Elder

Recently, a few prominent authors, activists, and well-known personalities in the Pagan world did something...

November 20, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Speaking of Ancestors

As my daughter entered labor many miles from me, I stopped my daily routine to...

November 19, 2015

Wyrd Words: We Are Our Deeds

There’s this unfortunate tendency in Pagan circles for those holding the title of ‘Elder’ to...