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May 2015

May 21, 2015

Anatomy of The Spirit of Place

I am a conscious being who lives and has experiences which affect me and shape...

May 01, 2015

Spiritual Sovereignty

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

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...

February 20, 2014

Creating a Place-Based Practice

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

February 07, 2014

The Past is a Place We Still Inhabit

Our belief that the present is somehow exceptional, that we are modern and more developed...

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 02, 2014

Paganism’s Messiah Complex

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

December 2013

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 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 10, 2013

Naturalizing: Bringing Our Practice Home

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

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...

July 2013

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 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...

July 11, 2013

Communication 101 (for witches and others): toward Place speaking

Summer has finally arrived in Ireland (touch wood), and the fine weather draws people out...

June 2013

June 06, 2013

Point to Ponder: is it all just anthropomorphizing?

This week, Traci considers how stories connect us to the lived world, and relishes the...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

An Animist’s Take on Fiction: to view or not to view

This week Traci considers the image bank of fiction, how that repository impacts 'spirit' communication,...

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 18, 2013

I’m an Animist: and what that means

This week, Traci shares what it means to be an animist, and how she lives...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

What Place is This? Our spaceship among the stars

Traci explores the living organism we call home, and encourages us to think of Place...