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January 2015

January 23, 2015

Ordeals and Austerities

What's the difference between an austerity and an ordeal? Why practice them at all?

June 2014

June 24, 2014

What We’re Reading

What my little Pagan family is reading right now.

April 2014

April 14, 2014

On Finding My Yoga

Hinduism has an 'in' for everyone. Hatha yoga was my gateway, but I've found other...

April 08, 2014

Values

I argue that Feri is highly amoral and yet is highly ethical. To carry the...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Kali Puja

Several people for the last year or two have asked me to write about how...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

Shiva the Witch God

Shiva is a god of witches. But it's not his witchiness that makes devotion to...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

Singing In Christmas

Niki talks about the challenges of participating in Christmas and how she is managing the...

October 2013

October 04, 2013

Finished Yantras

I finished my yantras! It's taken me all week. Between finding the concentrated time and...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Attempting Yantras

Yantras are intricate, geometrical Hindu designs. Tantric Hinduism uses them for meditation, magic, and devotion....

September 19, 2013

What I Do

Earlier in the week a friend on Facebook linked to a great blog post on...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

A Budding Theologian

Last night I was chanting Om Namah Shivaya. My son, who will be 5 at...

April 2013

April 02, 2013

Observing the week with Shiva and Kali

I've been writing a lot more frequently about Traditional Witchcraft stuff, but what's been happening...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

Shiva

Om namah Shivaya! This is perhaps the best known Hindu chant in the Western world,...