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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 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...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

A Sense of Florida

It’s not all silliness and Florida Man har hars. Think drug cartels, murders for hire,...

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 15, 2014

Rites of A Winemaker

This, he said, was an example of the rite this wine demanded, but it was...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

That Place We Keep Meeting

The Network isn't like a Natural Spirit! It's not like Nature. It's not like the...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Amsterdam

As I sit here listening to the ragweed and grass whisper next to a canal,...

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 01, 2014

Clutha

I felt the energy of the river as it stretches out onto land, as it...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Lessons From D.C.

At some point along the drive I noticed a change in myself. I was agitated...

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 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 02, 2014

Paganism’s Messiah Complex

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

December 2013

December 11, 2013

Energy Signatures of Place

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

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...

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...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

Naturalizing: Bringing Our Practice Home

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

October 07, 2013

Scent is a magic carpet

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

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 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 05, 2013

A Night In The Mound

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

August 2013

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 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 06, 2013

Passing Faith To The Next Generation

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