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October 2012

October 02, 2012

The weekend’s Harvest Moon

You might have noticed the full moon over the weekend. In this corner of the...

October 01, 2012

Maxim Monday: Honor Providence

This is another maxim where I felt the need to look up the words. If...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

The best non-magic books about magic, part 2

Young adult and children's books are a font of magical storytelling. Much of the stories...

September 24, 2012

Maxim Monday: Exercise Prudence

Who's Prudence? And why isn't she getting any exercise? Ahem. In all seriousness prudence is...

September 23, 2012

How the Equinox actually turned out

One of the things that I love about keeping this blog is that it helps...

September 21, 2012

Equinox

The Equinox is coming. It occurs on March and September 21, midpoints between the Summer...

September 17, 2012

Control Anger

It's Maxim Monday! And today's is: control anger. On the surface, I think, yes, we...

September 12, 2012

Land as Lover

Inspired by The Spell of the Sensuous I want to explore more personally what Land and...

September 10, 2012

It’s Maxim Monday! Now featuring a post on a parenting.

I have decided to jump on the blog themed day bandwagon and use Monday for...

September 06, 2012

Guest posting

I've got a guest post up at Project Conversion today! It's a little bit about...

September 05, 2012

The best non-magic books about magic, part 1

My two most favorite books about magic aren't explicitly about magic at all. One is...

September 02, 2012

Control Yourself

It's been a while since I wrote on the Maxims. Time to get back to...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

We accept the ….. we think we deserve.

I remember when The Perks of Being a Wallflower came out. I was working in...

August 25, 2012

Coming Out as a Polytheist

Earlier this week Adam and I went to visit with a family whose daughter attends...

August 21, 2012

Prayer of Rededication

An acquaintance of mine and Feri initiate, who goes by the internet nom de plume...

August 18, 2012

Fire

I'm done with all of my summer traveling. I'm recovering physically (had a stomach bug...

August 10, 2012

Crashing, and hard

I have had a long summer and I'm feeling frayed. I'm back from my last...

August 01, 2012

Harvest

Today is Lughnasadh, a Celtic cross-quarter holiday celebrating the first fruits of what has been...

July 2012

July 21, 2012

An Apology

I have decided to remove my most recent post. While I was trying to convey...

July 11, 2012

Honor the Hearth

I've actually got a large post brewing in me about vulnerability and writing, but I've...

July 09, 2012

Dispatches from the Great White North

It’s been three years since I’ve been back to my hometown, Juneau, Alaska. My relationship...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Link love

It's been a busy week in my house. Last week my husband sprained is ankle...

June 21, 2012

A year later in My Own Ashram

When I started this blog one year ago I was living in Wales, debating whether...

June 20, 2012

Solstice!

Tomorrow marks one year of My Own Ashram. 126 posts, 4 quarters, 2 countries. I...

June 18, 2012

Fairy tales

My relationship with fairy tales is complicated. I loved them growing up. I enjoyed the...

June 15, 2012

Shout outs

I would like to draw your attention to two things that I am loosely involved...

June 13, 2012

If you are a stranger, act like one

Today's Delphic Maxim is: if you are a stranger, act like one. This is timely!...

June 11, 2012

Walk Like a God – a review

One of the blogs that inspired me to start my own is Rogue Priest, written...

June 07, 2012

Think Like a Mortal

Today's Delphic Maxim is think like a mortal. Wait, what the heck? Don't we already...

June 05, 2012

Full moons, tarot, and the transit of Venus

It's an astrological bonanza right now. I don't know much about astrology, and I tend...