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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 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...

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....

July 2014

July 09, 2014

Some things I learned from blackberries

It's tough, hardy, even invasive; blackberry left unchecked tends to take over an area and...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Can a human being be the spirit of a place?

I started out thinking of Marie Laveau as a kind of local spirit of New...

June 18, 2014

The Queen of Fair Elfland

Now, I think I could make a good case that New Orleans and Faerie are...

June 02, 2014

Home.

What home means.

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Dionysos in a Paving Stone, Brighid in the Broken Glass

When we go to festivals and spiritual retreats in nature, what are we retreating from?...

April 23, 2014

Wishful Ducklings

There is something here, a notion of human beings living in community with nature; not...

April 18, 2014

A Light That Never Goes Out…

I became a Pagan 18 years ago on Easter Sunday, and I've a kind priest...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

The Garments of the Gods

When a god in one city appears different in another, perhaps it is that they...

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 23, 2014

A Pagan Goes To FreezerBurn

An animist pagan attends a regional Burn and discovers how the principles of radical self-reliance...

January 09, 2014

TED Talk: A Sense of Place

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

December 2013

December 18, 2013

‘Big’ people are people, too.

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

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...

November 13, 2013

Urban Witchcraft : Spirit Roads

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

October 2013

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...

September 2013

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 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...

August 2013

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 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 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...