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October 2013

October 08, 2013

The Intersection of People and Place

I felt in that hour as if the park where we walked embraced me even...

October 07, 2013

Scent is a magic carpet

As Marcel Proust found, our sense of smell is directly linked to memory, and a...

October 02, 2013

Stonehenge for Visitors and Armchair Travelers

So much of magick is about synchronicities. Here's a sweet one: James O. Davies book...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Connecting with the sound of place

Sound is often neglected as a way of relating sensually to place. Elinor explores why...

September 26, 2013

Returning To America : Place As Cultural Experience

This week Traci shares her thoughts on returning to America, and experiencing the culture and...

September 24, 2013

Thoughts on Cyberspace

I've been away for a couple of weeks, working extra hard at my "day job"....

September 20, 2013

By the light of the harvest moon: autumn equinox thoughts

I always find the shift into the dark half of the year difficult. One of...

September 12, 2013

St. John’s Holy Well: east Cork [photos]

Ireland is a land resplendent with ancient sites, and one of the most venerated in...

September 06, 2013

Memories of place, held on the tongue

A bedtime drink brings back a flood of memories from childhood holidays in Shropshire.

September 05, 2013

A Night In The Mound

Scattered across Ireland are 5000 year-old Ancestral Temples known as megalithic tombs, or chambered cairns....

September 04, 2013

Japan’s Fukushima Disaster and Its Impact on Fish in the Pacific Northwest

For the most part, those of us that love wild seafoods from the Pacific Northwest...

September 03, 2013

The Weight Of A University

Last week I found myself on the Glasgow University campus and was struck by the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Online worlds: places to tread with care

In online worlds, if we are to maintain cultures of openness, the price of freedom...

August 29, 2013

Night Sounds: An Sionnach In East Cork

What does a Witch do when she hears an eerie midnight cry on a deathly...

August 22, 2013

Land Spirits: When Things Go Bump

Relationship building is an integral part of our lives, and especially so for witches. Yet...

August 21, 2013

Graveyard Whispers

Some people think that graveyards are spooky. I find them fascinating places of deep spiritual...

August 15, 2013

London Calling: connecting with big cities

Cities can get a bad rap in modern paganism, especially in modern witchcraft. We idealize...

August 13, 2013

Starting From Ignorance

Last week I spoke of my children, this week I have a conversation with my...

August 09, 2013

A sense of responsibility to place

Every approach to morals and ethics has its strengths and weaknesses. Elinor Predota considers Pagan...

August 06, 2013

Passing Faith To The Next Generation

Perhaps you may think that the only Faith I gave my children was agnosticism, but...

August 02, 2013

The material, the sacred and the erotic: a contemplation for Lammas

Our chants and songs declare, "The Earth is our Mother: we must take care of...

August 01, 2013

Happy calendrical Lughnasadh

Enjoy "Lughnasadh Dance" by Gwydion Pendderwen!

July 2013

July 30, 2013

A Forest Walk

Humans may manage the land with the utmost care, but the plants and wild animals...

July 26, 2013

The ordinary, everyday occult knowledge of herbs, flowers and beasts

Like many other Pagans, I seek occult knowledge and personal gnosis in formal ways, through...

July 25, 2013

Bull Stones : the approach of Domhnach Chrom Dubh (Lughnasadh, Lughna Dubh)

The Festival of Lughnassadh is approaching! The earth is swelling, the weather is warm, thunder...

July 23, 2013

A Weapons Problem

The kinds of knives that I enjoy tossing in my backpack for a weekend of...

July 19, 2013

Stories of Gods and mortals: myth and Pagan practice

The Gods of Pagan mythologies are involved not in an elaborate theology, but in an...

July 18, 2013

Genital Mutilation: a question for the modern-day animist

The abortion debate rages in the US and Ireland, and we ask, "Who has the...

July 16, 2013

People and Place

Do people make a place the way it is or does a place shape the...

July 12, 2013

How a valley in Scotland changed my theology

Something started to change fundamentally in my theology once I moved to Scotland. I often...

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