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August 2015

August 18, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Trance and the Brain (Book Excerpt)

Our brains function through waves of activity. These patterns, measured in cycles per second (hertz)...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Seekers and Guides: The Purpose of Your Altar Pentacle

Books for solitary practitioners usually name the pentacle as one of the traditional witch's tools,...

July 14, 2015

Dance of the Underworld: the Pluto Flyby

Today we kissed the God of the Underworld and the farthest commonly-known "planet" in our...

July 13, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Sit for a Spell Episode 20 – Drying & Storing Herbs

In the next episode of her popular Sit for a Spell witchcraft YouTube video series,...

July 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: The Charge of the Goddess – A Wiccan Ethic

In modern Wicca, we don’t have a lot of commandments, and creedal statements that we...

July 04, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Sit for a Spell Episode 19 – Lawncrafting

It's Midsummer! Back after a long absence, Sable takes you on a tour of her...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

From the Shadows: Transphobia is Anti-Feminist

I learned a new term this week, I'm sorry to say. The term is TERF,...

June 15, 2015

Solstice: Solar Appreciation Day!

The Solstice is coming! Why not observe a Solar Appreciation Day? Here's some fun facts...

June 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Burnout

Why do teachers of the Craft seem to burn out so often and so quickly?...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Seekers and Guides: The Three Degrees of Wicca

The three degrees of initiatory Witchcraft are often misunderstood by Witches and Pagans, especially those...

May 12, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Coven Leader’s Primer

Want to start a coven but you don’t know where to start? Here’s a primer...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Maypole Magic

Ever wanted to know how to make and dance a maypole, but were afraid to...

April 26, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Your Mileage May Vary – Embracing Contradictory Truths in the Craft

Witchcraft and Wicca often ask us to embrace contradictory truths, especially about the nature of...

April 22, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Simple Spell for Earth Day

Want to direct your magick to help heal the earth this Earth Day? Here's a...

April 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: On Pagan & Wiccan Ritual

The use of language, sound, and ritual is the most familiar form of Witch’s magick;...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Placebo Effect

"There's no such thing as magick" says the hard-core rationalist. But modern science does not...

March 16, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Garden Magick for Ostara

It's Spring in the Northern Hemisphere! Time to plant your garden! Here's some magickal hints...

March 09, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Knowledge, Wisdom and Gnosis

Knowledge, Wisdom and Gnosis - What do these words mean to you? How do you...

March 03, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Moment of Choice – Precognition, Magick & Quantum Mechanics

It is the moment of choice that shapes the universe we live in. Sometimes bad...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Getting to Know Your Local Land-Wights

Have you met your friendly neighbourhood land-wights? Here's some ideas about how to get to...

February 06, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Multiverse

What if everything we know, everything we conceive of, is merely one of an infinite...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Ritual to Re-Enchant Your Tools at Imbolc

Imbolc falls quite close to the full moon this year. Regardless of tradition . ....

January 19, 2015

Quantum Woo: Quantum Entanglement

Let's say you fire two electrons out of a box at the same time. If...

January 13, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Apollonian and Dionysian Religion

Nietzche in his classic The Birth of Tragedy conceived of these two poles as opposite...

January 05, 2015

Quantum Woo: The God Particle

Most scientists shudder at the use of the phrase "God particle." I don't blame them,...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Short Ritual for the New Year

Here's a little non-tradition-specific ritual to acknowledge the change of the year with some of...

December 22, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Introduction to Intent

"Intent" is the Wellspring of All Magick. I find that many people believe that they...

December 18, 2014

The Longest Night

Rarely do we take the time to appreciate the beauty of Night, even at this...

December 15, 2014

Quantum Woo: The Uncertainty Principle

At the quantum level, nature is more numinous than we realize in the material reality...

December 08, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Cultural Negotiation

When deities cross cultures and begin to appear in the rituals of different faiths, is...