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April 2019

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...

April 14, 2019

The Corner Crone: Imposter Syndrome and the Newbie Witch

There will come a moment when you as The Magician are going to have to...

April 12, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: A Witch’s Travel Kit

I have come to believe having a “Magickal Go-Bag” or even a mini “Witch Kit”...

April 10, 2019

Hearth of Hellenism: Are You Waiting For An Invitation?

In polytheism, Gods receive cultic observance whenever it is ritually required. Sure, you can focus...

April 07, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Performing Magick for Others

Should we, as magickal practitioners, perform magick for anyone who asks? For me the answer...

April 03, 2019

The Corner Crone: Spellwork and Ethics

We Witches are powerful, and it is so easy to believe that because we are...

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 29, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Don’t Expect Me Not to Care

To truly seek the good of horses, or a horse, is to let go of...

March 25, 2019

Phosphoros’ Illuminations: The Concept of Sin in Paganism

Our Deities, our practices, and our resolute walking of our chosen path all help us...

March 21, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Feeling and Talking to Spirits

As a child, I'd go past a cemetery or into someone's home and there would...

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 19, 2019

Hearth of Hellenism: Discreet Devotion

In an ideal world worshiping the Gods in the open should be effortless. Unfortunately for...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Of Light & Shadow: Messages & Signs from Anubis

Signs are highly personal. The signs that the gods and spirits send to me may...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

The Crow’s Nest: Magical Practices and Techniques – Thought-forms

Thought-forms are energetic beings created for the purpose of performing a task. Some, including myself,...

March 01, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: Your Story and the Storyteller

There are secrets of the mind that each individual can only find if one is...

February 2016

February 03, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Devotional Techniques from the Heartbreak Trenches

Sometimes we need to take some time to honor our losses. In this post Rev....

December 2015

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...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Making Light: The Pagan Blogosphere is Toxic

I feel like maybe I have interesting ideas about theology and that maybe some people...

November 11, 2015

The Cartomancer: Four Readings, One Voice

A fortuneteller who sounds the same no matter what cards she reads is a fortuneteller...

October 2015

October 08, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: To Listen

To listen passively leads to anger and pain. To listen actively, while difficult, leads to...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

The Cartomancer: Questions of Excellence

Most of the time we assume that people seek a fortuneteller because they need answers...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

The Witches Next Door: The Introvert and the Extrovert get Married

Yes, I am an introvert, but that doesn't mean I hide away from taking on...

March 10, 2015

The Witches Next Door: Being on the Same Path is Awesome! Except When it isn’t

You like strawberry cheesecake.They like strawberry cheesecake. They think Spring is the coolest time of...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

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

Continuing her series on depression and suicide, Sable Aradia discusses some uniquely Pagan coping tools...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Wyrd Words: 10 Pieces of Practical Advice from the Hávamál

A reader recently asked me if it was possible to find meaning in the Heathen...

January 06, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Witches of Cyberspace, Part 2

Sable Aradia offers a basic how-to starter guide to set up an online education program...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Seekers and Guides: Witches of Cyberspace, Part 1

It's been said that it isn't possible to teach the Craft online, but is it?...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Seekers and Guides: Obstacles to Learning

The study of the Craft is not an easy path. Sable Aradia points out some...

July 2013

July 09, 2013

The Busy Witch: Making the Most of Mercury Retrograde

We’re in the midst of another Mercury Retrograde, and while I don’t pretend to be...