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May 2015

May 18, 2015

Be Here Now

It's the day before hopping on a plane I am wound up tight as can...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Beltane On The Beach: An Enduring Maine Tradition

Despite the beauty of Popham Beach, Beltane On The Beach is at its core about...

April 22, 2015

Earth Day: A Moment to Celebrate

So it is on this Earth Day that I recall that early enthusiasm, with the...

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 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 17, 2015

On Snakes, Truth-Speakers, & St. Patrick

If we extend the metaphor further, then not only did St. Patrick (and by extension,...

February 2015

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.

January 20, 2015

Elemental Ethos: Earth

The local ecosystem is our home, our host. I have come to realize that, for...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

By Way Of Introduction

I look at all my friends in the sky, and to all the energies in...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

De-Colonizing Ourselves So We Can Help Others

It's time for us to stop thinking that improving the lives of others means making...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

The Scythe… Harvest And Death

The Hooded Figure With A Scythe is not a squanderer of opportunities. It is silent...

August 04, 2014

When water is cut off: from Cochabamba to Detroit, by way of my bathroom

We all need water, but we are not all in control of our water supply.

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Signs of Beltane Approaching

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

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Creating a Place-Based Practice

On the second dark moon of January, a group of 9 gathered in my front...

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 03, 2014

Please Don’t Hit Me

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

December 2013

December 11, 2013

Energy Signatures of Place

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

November 2013

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 21, 2013

Urban Witchcraft: The Power of Rot

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

August 2013

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 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...

July 2013

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...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Heading Out for a Festival

Niki heads off to Canada for a vacation and some sacred space.

May 10, 2013

Distracting you with flowers

Niki shares pictures of pretty flowers in her yard.

May 03, 2013

Procession Photos and May Day

Niki posts pictures of the amazing Procession of the Species parade in Olympia, WA.

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Of Frogs and Flowers – an excerpt from Annie Dillard

With spring in full swing in Ireland, Traci shares an except from Annie Dillard's book,...

April 19, 2013

The body as a place

Niki ponders a brand new (to her) idea about our bodies being Places and Lands...

April 02, 2013

Questioning Fences

Last week I moved about 25 miles from Berkeley to Union City. I'll be here...