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February 2015

February 14, 2015

Making Light: Aphrodite

It seems fitting to turn my thoughts toward Aphrodite during the month of February when...

February 11, 2015

Alone In Her Presence: Heart Leads the Way – The Practice of Loving Kindness

The universe has an odd way of inviting me to question deeper. As I sat...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The Zen Pagan: Religion, Identity, Practice, Doctrine, Is, and Ought

Crouch suggests that if we applied critical thinking to religion the same way we apply...

January 28, 2015

Green Tara, The Practice of Releasing Suffering

In my chanting practice I serve as Tara's agent, absorbing the suffering of others and...

January 27, 2015

How to Survive Life (and Death) by Robert Kopecky (Review)

I had started the book hoping for wild descriptions of near death experiences and the...

January 22, 2015

Wyrd Words: Pagan Life Lessons – Sacrifice

How can we focus on our life goals when life itself seems bound and determined...

January 15, 2015

Queer of Swords: The Gentrification of Poverty

It is now possible to earn very good money indeed in the tech sector whilst...

January 08, 2015

Wyrd Words: Pagan Life Lessons – Hope

The old ways are just as much about personal revelations as they are interpersonal relations....

January 02, 2015

The Zen Pagan: Not Invulnerable

The idea that one should seek to distance oneself from the world is expressly refuted...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: Just Breathe, The Practice of Permission, Affirmation, & Dedication

The new year is upon us. This is the time of resolutions and promises to...

December 19, 2014

The Zen Pagan: Santa Claus and the Nature of the Gods

Sophisticated cynics know that it’s a bunch of bunk, of course. There is no jolly...

December 04, 2014

Queer of Swords: Cultural Inappropriation

Fighting cultural appropriation is a significant part of the struggle for civil rights in modern...

December 03, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: Lou Florez – The Cultural Exchange of a Lifetime

This is our moment as a community to invest in an exchange. Lou and his...

November 2014

November 06, 2014

Queer of Swords: The Black Heart of Indifference

Many murders of transgendered people go unreported. Still more go uninvestigated. Then there are the...

November 05, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: When Love Takes Over

It's complicated, it always is, when we choose to be part of the solution on...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Seekers and Guides: The Downward Spiral – Depression and Suicide in Paganism (Part 4)

Sable Aradia concludes her series on depression and suicide in Paganism with some advice on...

October 11, 2014

Making Light: Ares

War is an unfortunate fact of what it means to be human and when we...

October 09, 2014

Queer of Swords: True Names, True Identities

True Names have power. This is an idea that has been debated by philosophers for...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: The Goddess Is In The Dirt

For years, I heard the Christian expression to ‘lean on God’ in times of struggle,...

September 15, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Few Books that I Think Every Witch Should Read (Part Two)

Sable Aradia continues her list of books that she believes every Witch should read, with...

September 10, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: Choosing Love Over Fear

When I speak of love, it is not abstract, and it is not romantic or...

September 01, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Few Books that I Think Every Witch Should Read

One of the most common questions a teacher of the Craft will be asked is,...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: Embodied Living, Tantra and I?

Tantra is the magic of transformation. It is the magic of bringing self into alignment...

August 28, 2014

Queer of Swords: The Beast Strikes Back – How to Be an Ally

Following from my previous column in which I somehow managed to come out to the...

August 26, 2014

Jewish Witch: Despair, Tikkun Olam, and Rewilding Witchcraft

My job, as a Witch, is to explore my own wildness--to embrace it and understand...

August 18, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Auntie Sable’s Practical Tips for Sexy Pagans

Sable Aradia concludes her series on sex magick and sacred sexuality with some practical advice...

August 14, 2014

Queer of Swords: The Beast with No Backs

The LGBTQQI alphabet soup is missing a letter. There is a category of people that...

August 02, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Sticky Subject – Teaching Sex Magick (Part Three)

Sable continues to examine the ethics of teaching of sex magick and sacred sexuality by...

August 01, 2014

Alone In Her Presence: On Death – Riding Shakti’s Great Exhale

Death kindly seems to be stopping everywhere I look these days, in the faces of...

July 2014

July 24, 2014

Wyrd Words: Pagan Ethics and Odin’s Rites of Hospitality

The ancient Norse and Germanic tribes had a strong ethic of Hospitality. The concept encompassed...