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September 2014

September 21, 2014

Equinox Gratitude

Happy Equinox to all!

September 18, 2014

The Coming Equinox

Preparing for Mabon is a challenge, but one full of gratitude.

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Top Ten Books of 2013

Niki gives you the top ten books she's read in 2013.

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Health, part 1

Warning: This post has nothing to do with Paganism or Hinduism or magic. This time...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Maxim Monday: Shun Murder

This is another maxim that at first glance seems so obvious as to warrant only...

September 10, 2013

Ganesh Chaturthi

Yesterday was Ganesh Chaturthi - the first day of a ten (or so) day festival...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Harvest in the Pacific Northwest

At the beginning of August many of my Pagan friends celebrated the first harvest, commonly...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

Sacrifice

The ever provocative Sam Webster posted about sacrifice this week at his biweekly blog on...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Out with the old!

Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of my leaving the UK and arriving in Olympia....

November 2012

November 03, 2012

The Not So Dumb Supper

I don't know the much about history and tradition of the dumb supper. I've been...

March 2012

March 21, 2012

Place – what does that even mean?

Today begins a new quarter! Hurray! Or hwre, as they say in Welsh. When I...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Lent comes early this year

...For me, at least. Today is Fat Tuesday. Not being culturally Catholic, I've never had...

February 02, 2012

Fifteen Years in the Wrong Shoes – part three

When I left off last time I was married, miserable and crying during prayers. (You...

November 2011

November 03, 2011

Ancestors

(Part three of three) The Samhain season is at last over for me. Four straight...

August 2011

August 11, 2011

Pradosham and fasting

Pradosham is a day of devotion to Shiva and fasting for liberation and removal of...

August 01, 2011

Annaprasana

My baby girl is five and a half months old and is just itching to...

July 2011

July 01, 2011

Challenges on the path

I am ten days into Project Ashram. Some aspects of this project are very challenging,...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

Who’s your guru?

In my last post I wrote that nothing is all that different about life as...