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September 2016

September 05, 2016

Lowered Expectations Is Not the Answer to Bad Pagan Rituals

Who says that public rituals aren't about transcendence? Good rituals can be experienced on multiple...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

What’s On Your Pagan Calendar for 2016?

What does your Pagan Calendar look like? What special days do you observe in addition...

December 24, 2015

7 Reasons Why Christmas is Part of My Pagan Wheel of the Year

1. Yule is NOT a minor sabbat. "Whenever I hear a Neo-Pagan say that the...

December 13, 2015

A Unitarian Wheel of the Year

Vespers in the winter, the Flower Communion in the spring, Pride Day in the summer,...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

Why This Pagan Won’t Be Honoring His Ancestors on Halloween

Is Halloween a holy day for you? Do you experience any dissonance with honoring the...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Where would we be without Wicca? (Part 2)

Without Wicca -- and with the influence of esostericism thorough Wicca -- Neo-Paganism might outwardly...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 5: The Dying God

Scholars have criticized Jame Frazer's Golden Bough, arguing that he glossed over significant differences in...

June 2014

June 17, 2014

“Darkness Leaping Out of Light”: The Summer Solstice from a different angle

If we celebrated the birth of the Sun Child to Mother Night on the longest...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

The Year in Review: Blog posts that should have gotten more attention (Part 1)

Instead of writing about our controversies, I want to highlight some posts that I read...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Paganism and Real Live Nature

Recently Teo Bishop wrote a wonderful post about his experience of doing ritual in nature. ...