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September 2026

September 16, 2026

What do the Gods Look Like?

I was recently chatting with someone on Instagram. She asked me what the Gods look...

December 2025

December 27, 2025

Book review: Water, by Rumi

I recently finished another beautiful book that I can't recommend enough. It served as a...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Book review: The Nectar of Pain

I've wanted to read a good book of poetry for a long while. I wanted...

July 2022

July 05, 2022

Are You Better Because You’re Pagan?

I was speaking with a friend recently about our respective practices, what we do and...

June 2022

June 07, 2022

Book review: Queer Qabala

While it's true that I try to focus on my own culture, I can't help...

April 2022

April 11, 2022

What’s in a name? What Does Bader Saab Mean?

I've been contemplating a few things since the last weeks, re examining what I expect...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

Restarting a Practice

It's been a long time since I was here, and I've been missing writing in...

January 2022

January 28, 2022

Book Review: The Arabian Nights (Mahdi and Haddawy edition)

It's been a long time since I wrote about this book for the first time,...

April 2021

April 25, 2021

Celebrating Beltane During Ramadan

There have been so many posts about Beltane these days everywhere in the blogosphere that...

April 11, 2021

A Quick Note on the Jinn

While I felt it possible to command him to do my bidding, the jinn wasn't...

February 2021

February 14, 2021

Revisiting Shahmaran: A Guide for Healers and Lovers + Prayer

A few months ago I wrote a long Instagram post (or long to Instagram anyway)...

December 2020

December 15, 2020

Another Night, Another Death

There’s a saying that I’ve heard quite a lot in my life. “Every day is...

November 2020

November 08, 2020

What’s a Modern Day Sha’ir?

I’ve been mentioning this title over and over and it is even part of my...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

Book review: The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

There are books that make you think, some because they present you with ideas you...

October 18, 2020

Book Review: The Friendship Poems of Rumi

As we go nearer to the final harvest of the year, it’s impossible not to...

October 02, 2020

Book review: The Love Poems of Rumi

While we are in the spooky, dark season of the year, I couldn’t avoid asking...

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