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September 2016

September 27, 2016

Book Review: People of the River by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear

A short review of "People of the River" by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal...

September 16, 2016

Summer Okanagan Library Reading Challenge Update Sept 9 #ORL @WW_End

Deadline time! Did I make it? The conclusion of the Okanagan Library Summer Reading Challenge,...

September 16, 2016

Book Review: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford

A short review of The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford, and...

September 13, 2016

Video: Summer Okanagan Library Reading Challenge Update Sept 7 #ORL

The time is drawing nigh and I'm not finished yet! Update on the Vernon Library...

September 07, 2016

Video: Summer Okanagan Library Reading Challenge Update Sept 5 #ORL @WW_End

Update on my Vernon Library Summer Reading Challenge and my Worlds Without End reading challenges,...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

Canadian Magick

To celebrate Canada Day, Sable breaks down the magickal and symbolic meaning of a few...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Video: Witchcraft & Voodoo Episode 7 – Divination

In this episode of Witchcraft & Voodoo, Lilith and Sable discuss and compare different forms...

June 13, 2016

Witch Crafting

I always thought that this desire to make and create things, and to combine them...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

Seekers and Guides: Why Witches Wield Wands

In the age of the athame, a Witch might wonder why we bother putting a...

April 2016

April 17, 2016

Book Review: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

My book review of Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, a science fiction masterwork that...

April 13, 2016

Video: Witchcraft & Voodoo Episode 3 – Initiation

In this episode of Witchcraft & Voodoo Lilith and I discussed initiation; what it is...

April 01, 2016

Seekers and Guides: Magick with a K

Magick with a K -- how silly! Except that it isn't. And even if it...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Reciprocity: A Witch’s Relationship with Her Deities

How much respect and obedience is due the Gods? This is an issue that has...

March 07, 2016

Book Review: A Pagan Testament by Brendan Myers

A Pagan Testament: The Literary Heritage of the World's Oldest New Religion by Brendan Cathbad...

March 02, 2016

All the News That’s News: Witchcraft & Voodoo, a New Live Internet Show!

I'm excited to announce that I'm teaming up with Voodoo Priestess Lilith Dorsey to bring...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Leap Year Magic

February 29th is a liminal "time that is not a time on a day that...

February 02, 2016

What We Did for Imbolc

The coven came over at about noon to pick us up. Down we went to...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Book Reviews: The Last Herald-Mage of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey

Sable reviews "The Last Herald-Mage of Valdemar" series, which she named among her list of...

January 11, 2016

Book Review: The Witch’s Athame by Jason Mankey

My review of our very own Jason Mankey's brand-new book, "The Witch's Athame."

January 07, 2016

Interview with Jason Mankey, Author of “The Witch’s Athame”

Our very own Jason Mankey has been a very busy man. Tomorrow his second book,...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Ten Pagan Ideas that I Learned from Star Wars

Star Wars has been cited by many as a modern myth which borrows from a...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Spontaneous Ritual: Back to the Cenotaph

This year, I went back to the cenotaph on Remembrance Day; and what happened there...

November 11, 2015

Spontaneous Ritual: Lest We Forget

Over the past few years we have witnessed the birth of a cultural ritual around...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

The Star Goddess

Listen to the words of the Star Goddess: the dusts of Whose feet are the...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

A Mabon Formulary

I've been busy with Sabbat celebrations. So I thought I would share a couple of...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Sit for a Spell Episode 21 – Weather Magick

Sit for a Spell Episode 21: "Weather Magick" - Recent events in BC give Sable...

August 25, 2015

Godspousery: Mysticism and the Hieros Gamos

One of the more interesting phenomena I've encountered in Paganism is something known as godspousery....

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)...

August 01, 2015

The Magical Battle of Britain

It's a strange footnote of history. Germany never invaded Britain. Dion Fortune organized an extraordinary...

July 2015

July 25, 2015

What’s *Your* Harvest? – Lammas for Urban Pagans

The traditional Lammas associations may not work so well for some of us, especially those...