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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 25, 2014

Twisted Roots

It never occurred to me that any of my ancestors might be Quaker. Now that...

February 20, 2014

Creating a Place-Based Practice

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

February 04, 2014

Wide Angle Vision Part 3: Ignoring the Impacts

While reading The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

Wide Angle Vision Part 2: Missing The Variables

Spiritual insights may come from an innate ability to process the relationships between many variables...

January 09, 2014

TED Talk: A Sense of Place

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

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...

December 2013

December 17, 2013

Traveling Toward Birth

My dreams have been full of buses and trains. My friend's baby hasn't made his...

December 11, 2013

Energy Signatures of Place

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

December 04, 2013

The Train as Merkava

As economy land travel goes, a coach seat on the Empire Builder is pretty comfortable,...

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 15, 2013

The Place Where I’m Not Weird

Beyond the walls of a building, home is also the place where you know how...

October 10, 2013

Naturalizing: Bringing Our Practice Home

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

October 08, 2013

The Intersection of People and Place

I felt in that hour as if the park where we walked embraced me even...

October 02, 2013

Stonehenge for Visitors and Armchair Travelers

So much of magick is about synchronicities. Here's a sweet one: James O. Davies book...

September 2013

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 04, 2013

Japan’s Fukushima Disaster and Its Impact on Fish in the Pacific Northwest

For the most part, those of us that love wild seafoods from the Pacific Northwest...

September 03, 2013

The Weight Of A University

Last week I found myself on the Glasgow University campus and was struck by 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 15, 2013

London Calling: connecting with big cities

Cities can get a bad rap in modern paganism, especially in modern witchcraft. We idealize...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

A Forest Walk

Humans may manage the land with the utmost care, but the plants and wild animals...

July 16, 2013

People and Place

Do people make a place the way it is or does a place shape the...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Syncretism: An Immigrant’s Path

To choose to use the term "syncretism" over "eclecticism" is not a statement that one...

June 18, 2013

Dreaming My Way Through The Labyrinth

What I'm wondering now is if there is a way for me too walk out...

June 11, 2013

An Extraenvironmentalist

"This is what we want. We don't want to be Americans or Germans or English....

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,...

May 21, 2013

Wrinkles in Space

Have you ever been to a place over and over again and then suddenly one...

May 10, 2013

Distracting you with flowers

Niki shares pictures of pretty flowers in her yard.