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April 2014

April 11, 2014

Disenchantment, Enclosure, And ‘The Burning Times’

Capitalism is responsible for our ancestral trauma, our alienation from the land, and the greatest...

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...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Oiche Fhéile Bhríde: The Eve of St. Brighid’s Feast

Tomorrow night is the eve of St. Brighid’s Feast, perhaps one of the most celebrated...

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 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...

November 07, 2013

The Texas Cool Season: when life rejoices!

As most of pagandom welcomes the dark, cold time of winter, Traci relishes the blessed...

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 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 23, 2013

A Weapons Problem

The kinds of knives that I enjoy tossing in my backpack for a weekend of...

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...

July 05, 2013

The puzzle of the Mother of Modern Witchcraft — a village witch who lived in a tower block

Doreen Valiente was the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, a religion which deifies Nature - yet...