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June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Reaching the Spirit

We don’t master grounding and centering by knowing some secret. We get there like we...

June 25, 2017

Tree City Witch: Soul Retrieval & The Search for Home

My best advice for when the Sun is in Cancer is to go with the...

June 19, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Boline

Tied to the history of the land, the boline is a reminder of the thin...

June 13, 2017

Tree City Witch: Breaking up With Santa Muerte

I can’t remember if there was a moment when I decided that we couldn’t go...

June 12, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Practical Idolatry

Idolatry has been the straw man of the West for two millennia. Monotheists hate it....

June 08, 2017

The Cartomancer: Fear of Words, Love of Labels

Where are YOU between acts of re-naming, re-framing, re-labelling, and re-calibrating?

June 05, 2017

Tree City Witch: The Queen of Swords & Instructions For Your Exorcism

As an exorcist, you will see the possessed shed their skin in front of you,...

June 05, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Living With Fear

We all bow to fear. We can’t help it. No one is fearless in all...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: How to Build Your Magical Altar

If a religious altar is a doorway for the gods and spirits to come to...

May 28, 2017

Hills of the Horizon: The Past is Another Country

The problem with extrapolation from history is that nothing is testable. The evolution of a...

May 25, 2017

Everyday Pagan: The 8 Things I Learned from “D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths”

"D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths" was instrumental in me becoming a Pagan. Here are eight...

May 24, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: A Mystics Perception of Subjective Reality

A mystic recognizes that each of us adds a 2nd story on top of objective...

May 24, 2017

The Cartomancer: Forgiveness As a Hook

If your motivation is not aligned with your action you’re screwed. There is nothing to...

May 22, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Restoring Virtue

When it comes to virtue, the West has lost its way. The way back is...

May 19, 2017

Urban Earthwitch: Needful Trees, Life and Limb, and Urban Warriors

Can we summon the power as a collective to stop the destruction and appease the...

May 16, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: Witches & Mages, Borderfolk at the Threshold

Drui and the Witch walk on the outside edge, between the wild and the village....

May 15, 2017

Queer Femme Mystic: The Pagan Case Against Donald Trump

Do we want to live in the real-world version of "The Handmaid’s Tale?" Or are...

May 15, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Everyday Magic

Step into the unknown, and you’ll find yourself there.

May 09, 2017

The Cartomancer: So what? On the tyranny of inheritance

When you identify patterns of behavior you relate to, do you say, 'I also...', or...

May 07, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Summon Yourself

It’s about impossible to get through a day without being pulled this way and that....

May 07, 2017

Book Of Blackbirds: A Witch’s Tale

Magic always works better by cooperation than by force. In fact, trying to force magic...

May 06, 2017

Queer Femme Mystic: Why Queer Femmes Make Incredible Witches

You could say that queer femmes, for a number of reasons, make for incredible witches.

May 05, 2017

The Crow’s Nest: Appalachian Granny Women Reviving a Tradition

A tradition near and dear to my heart is that of the Appalachian Granny Woman....

May 03, 2017

Star Made Witch: 13 Steps for the Witch Decluttering Spell

I am getting into spring cleaning this month in a witchy way, and I figured...

May 01, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: Conceptualizing a Multitude of Spirits

A bit of information is a bit of consciousness, and that is a god. That...

May 01, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Teachers & Students

With nothing but the intuition that there must be more, we enter a new land...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Hills of the Horizon: Breathing the Year

If all the cosmos is alive, if there is a truly immanent theology, then that...

April 25, 2017

The Cartomancer: The Samurai’s Cut

An essay on power, how to align your 'what, how, and why' with focus and...

April 23, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Screw Dying, Live with Your Boots On

Like a lot of people, I always wondered how I would face death. As it...

April 22, 2017

The Crow’s Nest: Beltane-A Fire Festival

Beltane is an ancient Celtic Holiday, often referred to in modern times as May Day....