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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 15, 2016

Book Review: Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Orlando is a wonderfully realistic fantasy in which the fantastical aspects are simply presented as...

January 04, 2016

From the Shadows: “Just My Opinion”

"It's just my opinion" is meant to be a qualifier based in humility. It is...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

22 Novels that Popularized (and Influenced) Pagan Ideas (Part 2 of 2)

I've compiled a list of twenty-two novels, or novel series, that spread Pagan ideas, made...

December 06, 2015

22 Novels that Popularized (and Influenced) Pagan Ideas (Part 1 of 2)

I've compiled a list of twenty-two novels, or novel series, that spread Pagan ideas, made...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Some Essential Books for Women’s Spirituality Groups

I'm going to cautiously recommend the classics in the field of Feminist Witchcraft, and a...

November 07, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Few Books that I Think Every Witch Should Read 2015 (Part 2 of 2)

One of the most common questions a teacher in the Craft is asked is: “Can...

November 03, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Few Books that I Think Every Witch Should Read

One of the most common questions a teacher in the Craft is asked is: “Can...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Book Review: In the Service of Life – A Wiccan Perspective on Death

Sable reviews Ashleen O'Gaea's "In the Service of Life: A Wiccan Perspective on Death".

October 13, 2015

Seekers and Guides: How to Prevent Antagonism in Paganism

How can one create an environment that discourages Antagonists? In many respects the Pagan structure...

October 05, 2015

From the Shadows: Why Every Pagan Should Care About Cultural Appropriation

YEAH, IT'S LIKE THAT.

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Seekers and Guides: How to Deal with Antagonists in Paganism

One thing that I took away from the recent conflict in my own tradition was...

September 12, 2015

Seekers and Guides: How to Recognize an Antagonist

Antagonists, who brew destructive conflict, are a plague upon any religious group. In my last...

September 08, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Antagonists in Paganism

Sooner or later, as a leader of a coven or within the religious community, you...

August 2015

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 05, 2015

The Key is Devotion: Polytheism and Polyamory

"Polytheism and Polyamory are a Natural Combination," wrote Melissa Hill in Agora a couple of...

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 22, 2015

Witches Don’t Whine: A New Exegesis of the Wiccan Rede

Is it actually possible to "harm none?" Ultimately it seems to me that the true...

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 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...

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 23, 2015

6 Things That Neo-Pagans Could Learn from Polytheists

The Polytheists are doing a lot of things that I think the rest of us...

June 03, 2015

From the Shadows: Burning the Straw Men

I'm getting a little weary of straw man arguments. They proliferate through the Pagan community...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Reawakening a Pagan Theology (CNPC Keynote Address 2015)

Is there such a thing as a “Pagan theology?” If so, what are the common...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Why Pagan Books Cost So Much (Part 2 of 2)

Ever wonder why Pagan books and e-books cost so much? Here's a look at the...

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 24, 2015

Why Pagan Books Cost So Much (Part 1 of 2)

Ever wonder why Pagan books and e-books cost so much? Here's a look at the...

April 14, 2015

Five Reasons Why Witchcraft is Awesome!

Witches don't proselytize. So I rarely get the opportunity to wax rhetoric on why I...

April 08, 2015

To the Media, Since You’re Listening

Since the death of my friend made the media, and since a Kamloops paper quoted...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Sacred Earth & Sovereignty: Pagan Temples and Why They Matter

It seems that I find myself in disagreement with two writers I respect: Jason Mankey,...