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May 2017

May 20, 2017

New York Gardnerians: Judith Harrow (1946-2014)[1]

At Samhain 1976, Judy Harrow attended her first Wiccan circle and knew that she had...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

A Tapestry of Witches II: Lady Pythia and the Witchmage Tradition

Lady Pythia provides an interesting example of the fact that many covens who reinvented the...

April 23, 2016

The Art of Creating Religion. Part I

I am willing to entertain the nondisprovable hypothesis that our religions are inspired by the...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

About Fragments as Materials for Art

Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage, which I have now released through the...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

“I Fell in Love with a Witch”: The Vision of Gerald Gardner

Some people argue that Gardnerians cannot claim to have the right to do something merely...

September 03, 2014

A Note on the Creating of Religion

I know Philip Heselton hoped to find (but did not assume that he would) evidence...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

In the Name of the Goddess, I Say to You . . .

All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean...

May 2014

May 02, 2014

About Writing Witchy History

It ain’t easy. Given that I began saving Green Egg and the other dozen periodicals...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America, Volume I is now available on Amazon

It was not easy figuring out how to write this book. The chronological structure (the...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Goddess Murder, 29: North to Sonoma, 3

XXXI. North to Sonoma, 3 “Dotty sounds like a fascinating character," I said, "but that...

October 15, 2013

Goddess Murder, 27: North to Sonoma, Part II

XXIX. North to Sonoma II “That’s enough about me,” I said. “What kind of hereditary...

June 2013

June 08, 2013

A Prayer That I Hope Many More Can Say

I’ve tried before to rewrite the “Lord’s Prayer” into a prayer for Pagans. This morning...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, VII: A Church for Witches

After the second Pagan Ecumenical Council meeting in June 1974, Gwydion and I continued to...

March 07, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part V, 1974-1975

As I mentioned, many important changes took place in 1973 within at least half a...

February 2013

February 17, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Council of Earth Religions and the Green Egg Yellow Pages

[I apologize to my dedicated readers. It has been rough. I plan to resume posting...

February 02, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part III: The Council of Themis

As described in previous blogs, the attempt to create an umbrella, church-like organization for...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Family Tree of the New England Coven of Traditionalist Witches, Part II

The New York Coven of Welsh Traditional Witches was founded about 1970 by Edmund Buczynski...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

The Pagan Way

In a strict chronology, I should next be discussing events in California and New England...

November 22, 2012

Raymond Buckland and Seax-Wica

In my last blog about the Gardnerians, I indicated that, because of changes in his...

November 10, 2012

The Gardnerians, 1963-1972

Raymond Buckland was one of the very first people to foresee how important the Gardnerian...

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