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January 2017

January 10, 2017

The Blooming Staff: On the Papal World-Tree, or, An Esoteric Meditation on the Papacy

Nicholas Laccetti reflects on the history of occult interpretations of the Papacy, and what the...

December 2016

December 13, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Prisca Theologia, Pansophy, and Integral Truth – Some Notes on Universal Reformation

Universal Reformation has been a goal throughout Western esoteric history: for Renaissance magi, for Rosicrucians,...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Into The Dark of Samhain

The spirits deserve their due, after all, and we are moving solidly into their season:...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

Star Made Witch: Masks and Guising on Samhain

In the sense that the mask serves to kill the ego masks for the duration...

October 07, 2016

Happily Heathen: Winternights — The Heathen Samhain?

Winternights is one of my favorite holidays. I love when summer finally gives way to...

September 2016

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 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 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 04, 2016

Wyrd Words: What is Valhalla, and Who Goes There?

Many aspects in our tradition end up getting oversimplified into easy to swallow 'Christianized' binaries....

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Outside the Circle: Dark Spirits of Lammas

The Witches of the past learned their magic from the fairies, meeting them in the...

July 08, 2016

Happily Heathen: Know Your Lore – Deconstructing the Brisingamen Myth

To many modern Heathens, Brisingamen is Freya's beautiful necklace, made of gold or amber or...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

The Sorcerer’s Art: A Portrait in Colors

At the turn of the century witchcraft and sorcery was as alive and well as...

June 10, 2016

Happily Heathen: Beauty, Sex, and Sexuality in the Viking Age

Religious and spiritual beliefs to not happen in a vacuum; they are always influences by...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Happily Heathen: Know Your Lore — The Poetic Edda

As a new Heathen, people are often told to read "the sagas and the Eddas."...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Star Made Witch: Walpurgis Night

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

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"...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Star Made Witch: Witchcraft and the Grimoire Tradition

A grimoire is a magical book with rituals for contacting spirits, spells, divination and associated...

November 2015

November 07, 2015

The Rantin’ Raven: Telling Our Stories

If you’re a member of any kind of linage, formal or informal, please ask more...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

Wyrd Words: Cultural Appropriation and Pagan Fear

If little Suzy wants to go up onto a mountain top, burn some sage, and...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Happily Heathen: The Blot’s the Thing

I have recently started an “Intro to Heathenry” class in my hometown. In preparing for...

September 20, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism Isn’t for Us?

The animistic worldview is the red-headed stepchild of Western pagan worldviews. It finds itself mostly...

September 19, 2015

The Rantin’ Raven: Who Was Mabon?

There’s a lot of debate over the name Mabon at the Autumn Equinox, mostly because...

September 16, 2015

Dandelion Seeds: Gaia, The Gangster Earth Mother

Most of us these days know the name Gaia from James Lovelock’s theory of the...

September 04, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Spelling as Witchery

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before...

September 01, 2015

Irish-American Witchcraft: Irish Fairies in America

Some people do see the Gods as anchored in one terrestrial space. Others think the...

August 2015

August 08, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Goddesses – Finding Home

There are over 350 representations of the Goddess in this collection. Most of them fit,...

August 01, 2015

The Rantin’ Raven: Cultural Appropriation? Really?

Cultural appropriation isn’t always the misappropriation of myths and spiritual artifacts from low-technology indigenous populations...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: A Starwood Experience

Drums beating through the days and all along the nights become a tapestry for our...

July 03, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Myrtle of Venus & Bacchus’ Vine

In which Anne shares a bit of American history with us related to the original...

July 02, 2015

Wyrd Words: Grief and Renewal

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