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May 2016

May 02, 2016

Beyoncé and Making Theology Out of Lemonade

Lemonade without lemons is just sugar water. The hardest thing for people to understand is...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Ars Poetica: A Reminder

You are a human being alive on the earth for just a short, short time.

October 2015

October 15, 2015

Faery Your Information

There's a new Faery website up.

September 2015

September 04, 2015

The World Isn’t Disenchanted. It’s You.

I am not saying that there is not an urgent need for re-enchantment, re-wilding, resurrection....

May 2015

May 01, 2015

Beltane Dreams Against the Kyriarchy

I haven't written much lately. Part of it is end-of-semester hullabaloo and work load, and...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

How Magic Works in Real Life

The truth is, the things you ask for can happen, but you better be ready...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Witchcraft and the Monkeysphere

Dunbar's number is the upper limit of any kind of group cohesion, including the kind...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

Incantation for Justice

The place of the witch is beside the downtrodden. Power used to harm the innocent...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Our Nimue Is Different

If you step out to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread and...

September 25, 2014

Black Hearted Innocence (part 7)

Understand, the Black Heart is not a goal, nor is it automatically conferred with a...

September 18, 2014

Align Your Souls (Feri part 6)

Today's Throwback Thursday post discusses another central idea in Anderson Faery. Originally published May 24,...

September 11, 2014

Feri Pentacles, Iron and Pearl (part 5)

Today's Throwback Thursday post talks about pentacles as they are taught in Anderson Faery. Originally...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Homegrown Alchemy (Feri part 4)

We sometimes speak of “Feri alchemy.” We mean the technique sometimes ritualized as "the water...

August 21, 2014

Dead, Mad, or a Poet (Feri part 3)

The number of creative types in Feri is poetically apt and mythologically resonant, but I...

August 14, 2014

Feri, An Apparent Digression (part 2)

Sometimes, when I start talking about F(a)er(i/y), someone will look confused and ask, “What does...

August 07, 2014

In which Our Heroine attempts to explain Feri (part 1)

Feri can look rather Wiccany from a distance, but the closer you get, the less...