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September 2019

September 06, 2019

Of Light & Shadow: Death, My Prelude to Self Love

The path to self love is not bombarding yourself with beautiful things. Those will only...

September 03, 2019

The Corner Crone: Self-Love Will Be the Death of Me

The Death card whispers of the potential for seeds of growth that could be planted...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Think Before You Appropriate

You have every right to honour Celtic gods, speak a Celtic language, and all the...

August 27, 2019

Stirring the Brew: Fire Season

We could talk about climate change, how it’s driving not only wildfires but also extra...

August 27, 2019

Walking the Path: How Abandoning the Gender Binary Helped My Community

The truth of the matter is our society is diverse and complex and full of...

August 26, 2019

Phoenix Rising: When The Cauldron’s A-Rocking, Ceridwen’s Come Knocking

If we are willing to do the challenging, confusing, and sometimes terrifying work of facing...

August 22, 2019

The Corner Crone: Rainforest Wildfires – A Pagan Response

The Amazonian Rainforest has been burning for weeks now at an unprecedented rate. What are...

August 19, 2019

The Corner Crone: The Persecuted Modern Witch

It’s hard to meet a pagan or witch who hasn’t felt marginalized or persecuted at...

August 12, 2019

Hearth of Hellenism: Anti-Hellenism in the Pagan Community

If someone earnestly desires to learn and practice Hellenism (and claim their path to be...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

Radical Pantheist: Psychic Fails Are Real . . .

The truth is there will never be hard proof of psychic abilities, just like there...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Phoenix Rising: The Guard at the Gate

We’ve all had at least one time in our lives when we have experienced a...

June 21, 2019

The Spiral Turns: Pride Month from a UU Druid’s Perspective

I would like to believe there will come a time when terms like “straight or...

June 09, 2019

Radical Pantheist: One Energy, Many Frequencies – Melissa Alvarez

As a young child, Melissa Alvarez was visited by a spiritual being who told her...

June 04, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: The Freedom To Be Who You Are

I was eleven when my father confessed his homosexuality to my mother. He'd been having...

June 04, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Stonewall – 50 Years Later

Almost 50 years after Stonewall as I write this today, I still get teary eyed...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: We Are 3 Pagans and a Cat

It has occurred to me, when looking back on the posts I've written for The...

May 25, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: The Funny Thing About Definitions

There are no rules in witchcraft, anyone who tells you differently is ill-informed. If you...

May 21, 2019

The Spiral Turns: Keeping the Festival Promise

The sky was bright, and the fields of glowing green seemed to swallow me up...

May 18, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Manannán mac Lir – Book Review

It will soon be Midsummer, the time of year when many Celtic Polytheists honour Manannán...

May 17, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Wildcrafting Your Yard

Wildcrafting is harvesting from plants in their natural or wild habitats to be used for...

May 10, 2019

Between Two Worlds: A Special Relationship; a Lesson From Hekate

I've written before that I release all of what doesn't serve me on my personal...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

Grace Notes: Sacred Rubbish

Pagans, for the most part, agree with the general sense that we worship nature/the earth...

April 17, 2019

Grace Notes: Compassion Fatigue

If you can identify meaning in something, even something terrible, it becomes less stressful. Often...

April 16, 2019

Phosphoros’ Illuminations: The Pagan Pitfalls of Dualistic Thinking

The truth is things are rarely simple, particularly when we're dealing with spirituality, and double...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

Parenting the Divine: Pagan-ish Books for Springtime Storytime

As Pagans raising children, we want to read books that reinforce our family values and...

March 19, 2019

The Purple Spiral Turns: The Law of Names and Words of Disempowering

There is power in the words we use. Words can become laws and decide fate...

March 07, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Unitarian Universalist, CUUPS, and Pagans

I have found that I can be an active member, not only at Circle Sanctuary,...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

Between Two Worlds: My Favorite Sabbat – Mabon

Since I was a very young child, I just loved the autumnal equinox, even before...

November 2017

November 13, 2017

Book of Blackbirds: Pumpkins, Squashes, and Witchettys

Some gourds are good for decorating up and making rattles and drums out of, too....

February 2017

February 10, 2017

Happily Heathen: Heathen Events at PantheaCon 2017

Convention season has started, an the first one up is PantheaCon, the largest indoor pan-Pagan...