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November 2022

November 16, 2022

Between Two Worlds: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022

TDoR is an annual observance each November 20th honoring the memory of those whose lives...

May 2022

May 28, 2022

Between Two Worlds: Mika

Mika Ellen Orzech was a human rights activist, Internet News Provider, and started the Facebook...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Between Two Worlds: Life, Death and Rebirth

My thoughts drift to Life, Death and Rebirth. This time of year, halfway between the...

July 2021

July 06, 2021

Salt City Pagan: Let’s Talk About Your Death

Every living creature, plant, planet, and indeed solar system will eventually shine a final light....

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Phoenix Rising: Cerridwen’s Cauldron – Dealing with Grief and Loss

I guess you could call this my year of “breaking open” because nothing - and...

November 2020

November 13, 2020

Between Two Worlds: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), observed annually on November 20, honors the memory of those...

October 2020

October 24, 2020

Between Two Worlds: My Visit With The Dead

As the Veil is thinning, it's time for me to visit with the dead again....

October 23, 2020

Cross and Crossroads: Cultural Sensitivity and The Day of The Dead

Many non-Latinx folks come to me around this time of year wanting to know how...

October 29, 2019

Simple Witchery: Favored or Forsaken – When Tragedy Strikes

In the dark cave of my grief, I still wanted to know why me, why...

October 29, 2019

The Balancing Path: Mourning & Commemorating Transitions at Samhain

We don’t get to choose to what we mourn. We can’t help the fact that...

October 23, 2019

The Corner Crone: Samhain-palooza and Expectations

Your “Samhain Moment” may not happen exactly on Samhain. If we slow ourselves down in...

October 22, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Gender Dysphoria, Death and Samhain

I'm not fond of Samhain. For me, I remember too many transgender women and men...

October 16, 2019

The Corner Crone: When Photos Are Rocking Are Spirits A’Knocking?

The first anniversary of my sister’s death is next week. She was 59. She died...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Cancer, Death, Re-Birth and Hekate

Am I afraid of death? No. When I physically leave this incarnation, I will have...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

The Corner Crone: From Tomb to Womb to Bloom

Perhaps you, too, find yourself reluctantly being pushed toward new growth this season. You might...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

The Corner Crone: Snick Went the Blade

Hekate is not there to do my heavy lifting. She’s there as a Companion, a...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

Omens & Oracles: Black Obsidian and Death

Black obsidian is a symbol of transformation, wisdom, experience and survival. It’s been through the...

April 2017

April 23, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Screw Dying, Live with Your Boots On

Like a lot of people, I always wondered how I would face death. As it...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: On Death, Heroism, and Faith

Faith is not belief. That’s a weird, post-Enlightenment Protestant Christian, non-Pagan thing. Faith is connection...

January 2017

January 01, 2017

Full Frontal Magic: The Death of Modern Godforms

In modern times, we live in a society devoid of traditional myth making in relating...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

The Path of She: When Death Arrives On Our Doorstep – A Primer for These Times

In the after-shock of the US election, two visions bring hope and transformation. Death has...

November 07, 2016

Seeking the Grail: The Priestess is Dying

My pessimism is clawing ribbons into the flesh of my optimism. My soul is screaming...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Decorating With Death

We each fashion our own language out of symbols and objects which speaks as loudly...

September 05, 2016

Seeking the Grail: A Song of Death

It shouldn't surprise me; nobody gets out of here alive, as they say. But death...

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....

May 2016

May 16, 2016

Seeking the Grail: When Doing the Right Thing Doesn’t Feel Good

About a month ago I put my cat to sleep, and only in the past...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

The Cartomancer: “Know Thyself,” but what does it really mean?

Go out. Smell a flower. Stay together. If it rains, open your mouth and taste...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

The Cartomancer: Transmission

We say to one another: ‘Don’t waste my time.’ ‘Don’t waste my time’ should be...

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 28, 2015

The Cartomancer: The Smell of Souls

Magical folks say that October is the month when the veil between the worlds is...