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January 2014

January 10, 2014

The Liberation of the Earth

Many of the ancestors of Modern Paganism were anti-Capitalists, and the reason for this is...

January 09, 2014

TED Talk: A Sense of Place

We exist only in real places; whether we notice them, or not, whether we respect...

January 08, 2014

Wide Angle Vision Part 1: A Useful Meditation

My friend calls this wide angle vision a "useful meditation technique" because you can use...

January 03, 2014

Please Don’t Hit Me

We drain wetlands and tear down mountains for cars. Why are you driving?

January 02, 2014

Paganism’s Messiah Complex

A troubling component of the western centric world view can be found within western paganism....

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Capitalism and the Spirit of Place

When we decide to move from one place to another, to leave a city for...

December 24, 2013

Traveling Toward Birth (Part 2)

This dream bothered me so much. Why was I taking the little boy to Thailand...

December 20, 2013

Of Love and Land Spirits

Worlding the spirits of land into our lives is not just for seers or mystics....

December 18, 2013

‘Big’ people are people, too.

Living in Eskdalemuir and not being part of the Samyé Ling community is an interesting...

December 17, 2013

Traveling Toward Birth

My dreams have been full of buses and trains. My friend's baby hasn't made his...

December 13, 2013

The Logic of Disenchantment

In the 1700's, something was spawned from the countryside of England, and it's disenchanting the...

December 11, 2013

Energy Signatures of Place

In The Secret Language of Plants, Buhner describes ways in which you can open yourself...

December 06, 2013

The Magician, The World

There are gates to the Other everywhere, including the ones we create ourselves.

December 05, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Place in the City

The fantasy of the witch's cottage is romantic, but is largely a fiction: most of...

December 04, 2013

The Train as Merkava

As economy land travel goes, a coach seat on the Empire Builder is pretty comfortable,...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

The Song of the Other

Who did I think I was, playing songs to a goddess? How song is at...

November 28, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Words

Many Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving this week by gathering with loved ones to feast, and...

November 22, 2013

Marketing Disenchantment

Not only are there people earning fortunes by worlding the earth into disenchantment, we help...

November 21, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Rot

Death and decay, forces that have concerned human-persons for millennia, are still actively propitiated in...

November 15, 2013

Worlding the Earth

We inhabit the places we live, but we also weave meaning around them. Whether forests,...

November 13, 2013

Urban Witchcraft : Spirit Roads

Is the urban environment a magical landscape? Traci thinks so. This week she shares her...

November 12, 2013

Sharing Your Home

For some Pagans, the first thing to do before moving into a new home or...

November 07, 2013

The Texas Cool Season: when life rejoices!

As most of pagandom welcomes the dark, cold time of winter, Traci relishes the blessed...

November 05, 2013

Cursed Places

What is it about some cities that seem to have squeezed out most of their...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Cycles of Cultural Destruction

When we talk about cycles of domestic violence, there are many things that we have...

October 23, 2013

Beauty In Other People’s Faith

"God's Work, Our Hands" the quilting volunteers' t-shirts read. And it is God's work: they...

October 17, 2013

Oiche na Sprideanna Approaches

As the Irish festival of Samhain approaches, Traci shares some little known lore about this...

October 15, 2013

The Place Where I’m Not Weird

Beyond the walls of a building, home is also the place where you know how...

October 14, 2013

Getting clear about my place: the uses of withdrawal

The body, sex and pleasure are all sacred, and it is vital not to exclude...

October 10, 2013

Naturalizing: Bringing Our Practice Home

Much of North American paganism is influenced by imagined European ancestral practice, even when the...

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