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May 2015

May 01, 2015

Spiritual Sovereignty

My heart bleeds for the religious traditions that have been lost to the onslaught of...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

Footprints in the Muck, Blind Spots, & Seeing Past the Light

Mud is a messy dialogue. It is the in-between state, the parley between earth &...

April 06, 2015

Developing a Daily Devotional Practice of Place

For many of us, there is no choice but to re-dream the magickal practices that...

April 01, 2015

Small Revolutions in Urban Reclamation

It’s a system that has died, been reborn, is on life support and is completely...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Elemental Ethos: Water

The metaphysical associations with water tend to be the realm of emotions and felt experience....

February 2015

February 27, 2015

The Burning Heart of the Forest

The Burning Heart of the Forest will never die out: a photo essay

February 17, 2015

Pagan is Latin for Redneck

"Paganus" is an ancient term of otherness. It was disparaging, much like the "redneck" of...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The Science of Subjugation

Drilling into Nature's resisting holes: Francis Bacon and the rape of Nature.

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Ferguson is a Forest

What if you weren't allowed in a forest? How Private Property and Spirits of Place...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Finding Land Spirits and The Fae

Helpful tips to finding the Fae and Land Spirits, and also, advice to make your...

October 03, 2014

Under the Pavement, The Forest

Imagine a forest underneath the pavement, waiting to come out....

September 2014

September 05, 2014

Where They May Be Found: The Dead

The Dead are never far away. Sixth in the series, "Where They May Be Found."

August 2014

August 22, 2014

Missing The Forest

Sometimes Forests need trees to hide them.

August 20, 2014

Finding Identity In The Directions

There is a place where there are No Directions, and yet from that place spring...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Buying Land

Recently I spent a night outside near a plot that I am thinking about making...

June 2014

June 02, 2014

Home.

What home means.

May 2014

May 21, 2014

The Witchcraft of Place

Every so often, I teach a workshop I call "Ditch Witch: Magical Uses of Common...

May 14, 2014

Infinity in the palm of your hand

I frequently do a meditation where I visualize an image where my heart is, and...

May 02, 2014

The Dance of Desire and Delight

Those of you reading this who also write may understand, perhaps agree or disagree, but...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Signs of Beltane Approaching

Beltane is not, here, a time of courting your lover in the woods all night...

April 11, 2014

Disenchantment, Enclosure, And ‘The Burning Times’

Capitalism is responsible for our ancestral trauma, our alienation from the land, and the greatest...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Do The Gods Care About Money?

As an animist, I struggle to find my place among modern paganism. My concept of...