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December 2019

December 03, 2019

The Balancing Path: Death is Required for Living . . .

Unless you are solely eating items that are cast off or harvested from still-living plants...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

Cross and Crossroads: A Guide to Using Magick for Social Justice

As witches we are guardians of the marginalized and the oppressed, these folks who exist...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

Living the Liminal: Self-Care Doesn’t Feel Good

What's important to reflect on as you make self-care decisions is how those decisions serve...

October 21, 2019

Simple Witchery: Reclaiming the Crone

By bringing forth light from the darkness (new information) and transformation (new interpretations of, or...

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

The Balancing Path: Non-Binary Thinking & The D&D Alignment Chart

The D&D chart is an example of non-binary thinking. Odds are you’ve been using it...

October 16, 2019

The DruWitch Way: Think Twice, Banish Once

This is the time of year when magick is often dedicated to the Ancestors of...

October 01, 2019

Phoenix Rising: Black Mirror – Working With Obsidian

Each time we descend into the dark half of the year, there is another stone...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

The Corner Crone: Where Energy Goes, Magic Flows

In this season of rebalancing, of mindfulness and paying attention to the metaphysical ingredients I’m...

September 20, 2019

Stirring the Brew: Underworld Crossings

If the goddess of the Underworld crosses your path, the energy of the Underworld has...

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 23, 2019

Magick IRL: Riders On The Storm

It doesn’t matter if you are under a hailstorm, firestorm, rainstorm, or in a tornado....

August 22, 2019

The DruWitch Way: Tearing Down The Tower – Using Tarot to Change Your Viewpoint

As witches we are hard-wired to take responsibility for ourselves and how we interact with...

August 04, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies, Wishes, and Entitlement

At a minimum we should treat the fairies the same way we should treat the...

August 02, 2019

9 of Beagles: Alcoholism

I feel that in a moment of kharis Apollo cut across the chatter and lies...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Imperfect Witchcraft: Embracing Imperfect Witchcraft

Lately, the more I read, the more pressure I feel to do things perfectly. But I...

July 04, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Now Is the Time. Okay. But Where Do I Begin?

In recent years there seems to be a distinct call to action within the Pagan...

July 02, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Independence Day and Hekate

Independence Day is coming. I know that it now means independence from things that still...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

9 of Beagles: A Pagan in A Christian Seminary?

I started seminary to pursue my call and found myself being equipped with the tools...

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 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 07, 2019

Hearth of Hellenism: The One Book You Should Read Right Now

Pop culture shouldn’t be your reference point for theology-building; go to the ancient sources like...

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 20, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Medb Isn’t Mab and Other Truths

A funny thing about language is that there's really only so many sounds and -...

May 10, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: What’s In a Name?

Twenty years ago, when first dedicating myself to the study of the Craft I struggled...

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...