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May 2013

May 13, 2013

Maxim Monday: Do a favor for a friend

I like this one. Probably because I'm already good at it. Probably because this one...

May 12, 2013

A happy mother’s day

Being a mother is perhaps the single most life altering, spiritually powerful thing I've ever...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Not of this world

On my way to the grocery store I pass two churches. The first is a...

April 29, 2013

Maxim Monday: Be (religiously) silent

I love this one. Spring is in full swing here in Olympia. New colors from...

April 22, 2013

Maxim Monday: Listen to everybody

The older I get the more I see the wisdom in this maxim. Listen to...

April 18, 2013

Sacrifice

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

April 17, 2013

The Body

What a complex site of confusion is the body. As spiritual persons we have a...

April 15, 2013

Maxim Monday: Be impartial

Be impartial. Impartial means unbiased, fair, treating all equally, and remaining dispassionate. This is most definitely...

April 13, 2013

Desire

Last night my husband and I went on a date. An actual dinner without children....

April 08, 2013

Maxim Monday: Shun evil

This Maxim requires a lot of defining. I looked up the definition of 'shun,' and...

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...

April 01, 2013

Maxim Monday: Exercise nobility of character

There are 146 of these maxims. This is only number 30. I feel like I'm...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

What I’m reading

I read a lot. All day long I'm reading, whether it's blogs, Facebook, actual paper...

March 26, 2013

Cultivating rest

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned just how bad I am resting. I have a tendency...

March 19, 2013

Apocalyptic Witchcraft

I am a tremendous fan of Scarlet Imprint, publisher of fine magical books. Their books...

March 18, 2013

Maxim Monday: two for one

Today's Delphic Maxim is be kind to friends. Are some people not kind to those...

March 12, 2013

Magic to the People

If you're not familiar with Drew Jacob, let me introduce you. He's the Rogue Priest...

March 11, 2013

Maxim Monday: practice what is just

I like that the word practice is in this Maxim. The word 'practice' is a...

March 07, 2013

Further thoughts on being a householder

One of the things I didn't get into in my last post on being a...

March 06, 2013

Being a householder

In my last post I talked about the possibility that if reincarnation was a real...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

What little I know about reincarnation

Reincarnation is a standard concept in Hinduism and pretty common in the wider Pagan world,...

February 25, 2013

Maxim Monday: Praise virtue

Virtues are good. Virtues tend to be linked to morality, rather than ethics.* This entire...

February 21, 2013

Resistance is futile

Expansion, contraction, expansion, contraction. It would be nice if this was an easy, regular pattern...

February 16, 2013

Missing Pantheacon – again

This weekend - every President's day weekend - is Pantheacon, the largest indoor Pagan conference

February 12, 2013

My thoughts and predictions on the state of the Papacy

I got online yesterday morning and couldn't figure out why so many people were talking...

February 11, 2013

Maxim Monday: Find fault with no one

Uh-oh. How is this maxim possible? Everybody has faults and everyone messes up from time...

February 07, 2013

Getting a tarot reading

I didn't get a tarot reading from some one until years after I started studying...

February 05, 2013

Reviewing Project Conversion

Andrew Bowen is an angry, self-righteous asshole. That's probably why we get along so well,...

February 04, 2013

Maxim Monday: Praise the good

Yes! A maxim I'm already good at! I am by nature very critical. Do you...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Imbolc

Tomorrow, or maybe the day after, or sometime in the next week to ten days,...