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September 2022

September 06, 2022

Phoenix Rising: Anchors – 7 Daily Spiritual Practice Ideas in 10 Minutes or Less

The simple act of sacrificing and dedicating a small amount of your time daily to...

March 2020

March 20, 2020

Irish-American Witchcraft: Popular Questions About Fairies

I asked people on social media if they had questions about Fairies that I could...

March 08, 2020

Irish-American Witchcraft: ‘Celtic’ Paganism and Ancestry

Many people seek spirituality by looking to their own heritage and there is nothing wrong...

February 2020

February 11, 2020

Irish-American Witchcraft: A Beginner’s Guide To Studying Irish Mythology

A really common question I see from people just starting out in Irish paganism is...

January 2020

January 14, 2020

Irish-American Witchcraft: Random Q and A

For this post I decided to do another question and answer, and to simply open...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies and Samhain

Samhain is a time when the beings of the Otherworld are more present in the...

October 21, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: The Dagda is Not Zeus!

On at least a weekly basis I see people asking which Celtic god is like...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Our Lughnasadh Harvest

What is this Celtic, or Indo-European, concept of sovereignty, if not a story to make...

June 2019

June 18, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Midsummer, the Pleiades, and Fairies

After spending the autumn equinox in Iceland last year and having an experience that clued...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: Rhiannon. Queen of the May?

The character of the youthful goddess Rhiannon arriving on her magical white horse is certainly...

March 2019

March 03, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies, Gender Identity, and Sexuality

Fairies have always represented the liminal, the outliers, the forbidden, and the things disallowed by...

February 2019

February 20, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: The Horse, Nature, and Sovereignty

Based on paleolithic art in Europe, we know that horses were held in high regard...

May 2017

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....

April 2017

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....

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: The Ego Hides

The best mystics say proudly, “I’m not better than anybody else,” while the worst say,...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: What is a lamp? A Labyrinth?

Since the show Westworld stole my main analogy for mysticism, I thought I'd share the...

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 19, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: A Vision of An Cailleach

I'm learning that we are what propels ourselves, while simultaneously being the largest impediment to...

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....

June 2014

June 04, 2014

Loop of Brighid: The Nine Pure Choice Graces, Part 3 – The Grace of Fortune

The grace of fortune is not the condition of being lucky, but a lighthearted and...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Loop of Brighid: The Nine Pure Choice Graces, Part 2 – The Grace of Voice

The second of the nine “pure choice graces” is the grace of voice. While the...

April 16, 2014

Loop of Brighid: The Nine Pure Choice Graces, Part 1 – The Grace of Form

Bathing the head, feet and hands was once an important part of the Imbolc celebration....

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Loop of Brighid: Bride, the Cailleach and Nicnevin

Are Bride and Nicnevin estranged sisters? Or, if Mackenzie was right and the Cailleach and...

November 07, 2013

Loop of Brighid: Private Practices 7 – The Devotional Moods

In an earlier series of columns on “The Mysticism of Devotion,” we explored the devotional...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

Loop of Brighid: The Cauldrons of Inspiration

A God Who Makes Fire: The Bardic Mysticism of Amergin includes a new translation of...

October 10, 2013

Loop of Brighid: Invocation of the Graces, A Brigidine Sacred Text – Part 9

On Patheos Agora, Christopher Scott Thompson concludes his study of the Invocation of the Graces...

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...

September 26, 2013

Loop of Brighid: Invocation of the Graces, a Brigidine Sacred Text – Part 8

On Patheos Agora, Christopher Scott Thompson presents his own translation of the "Ora nam Buaidh"...

September 12, 2013

Loop of Brighid: Invocation of the Graces, a Brigidine Sacred Text – Part 7

The ancient Gaels swore oaths on the sun, moon and stars. Modern devotees of Brighid...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Loop of Brighid: Invocation of the Graces, a Brigidine Sacred Text – Part 6

As part of his exploration of Brigidine Paganism, Christopher Scott Thompson looks at how "Invocation...