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May 2019

May 07, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: There Is No Light Where There Is No Shadow

Over the years, I have found shadow work to be very helpful in my life...

May 05, 2019

Druid in the City: What You Watch; What You Think

Consider this before you watch that next video or scroll through your news feed: ask...

May 04, 2019

Reflections in Nature: The Disconnect Between Source and Plate

Not everyone is in a position to able to garden, hunt or raise their own...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

Phoenix Rising: When Your Shadow Comes Calling . . .

The things we have traditionally been taught about light and dark in our society are...

April 27, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Ode Speaks on Monsters, Monstrousness, and Love

Love does not tame monsters, or if it tames some, it does not tame all....

April 24, 2019

Of Light & Shadow: Beginning Emotional Healing with Anubis

When facing Anubis, you need to be prepared for the truth, however painful it might...

April 23, 2019

Grace Notes: Sacred Rubbish

Pagans, for the most part, agree with the general sense that we worship nature/the earth...

April 22, 2019

The Purple Spiral Turns: A Druid UU Speaks of Compassion

When we become mindful of the suffering of nature from poisonous toxins, we can use...

April 17, 2019

Grace Notes: Compassion Fatigue

If you can identify meaning in something, even something terrible, it becomes less stressful. Often...

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...

April 09, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: What Is A Fairy?

The best way to understand what fairies are is to appreciate the nuances. There is...

April 07, 2019

Phoenix Rising: Priestesses of Prophecy & Working with the Pythia

When I travelled to Greece, I was adamant that Delphi was one of the places...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Ode’s Story of Love and Gods (and teeth)

This is a story that I tell myself, in a hundred variations, because there is...

March 27, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Gender Non-Conforming Deities

I'm of the opinion that if more people would understand that there are more than...

May 2017

May 07, 2017

Book Of Blackbirds: A Witch’s Tale

Magic always works better by cooperation than by force. In fact, trying to force magic...

May 01, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Teachers & Students

With nothing but the intuition that there must be more, we enter a new land...

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,...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Farther Down the Rabbit Hole … or, My Morning Commute

In this column, I have previously discussed my initial surprising forays into the world of...

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 10, 2015

Witch on Fire: Salvation of a Southern Witch

Gather 'round, my lovelies, and let Mama Heron tell you a story, the back-story, a...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

The Path of She: A Samhain Teaching – Born Into Life, Born Into Death

Samhain is a time to contemplate the mysteries of death, not from a place of...

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...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Witch on Fire: Lammas Sacrifice and the Sacred Mission

That’s when my perception shifted, and I suggested that this harvest is about what is...

May 2015

May 01, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Behind the Veil

When I step through the veil, it is a bit like a waking dream. I...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Indoctrinating Against Indoctrination

It's not enough to simply tell your children about other faiths while helping them to...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Teaching Wiccan Values

What are the values that Wiccans believe in? Where do they come from, and how...

June 09, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Changing Consciousness According to Will

As Witches, we tend to learn a lot of valuable skills about changing consciousness in...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Divine Wisdom, Mortal Filters

When we ask the gods to speak through us and give us their wisdom, how...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Why Free Events Discriminate Against the Pagan Poor

Why charging a small fee for events and workshops is actually of benefit to Pagans...

April 14, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Wicca Has No Gurus, Only Teachers

We often expect our spiritual teachers to be perfect. Sable Aradia explains that teachers of...