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May 2016

May 06, 2016

The Irrational Fear of Death

The irrational fear of death prevents us from truly enjoying life. You can never tell...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

Authors for Indies

The role of independent bookstores to the sharing and freedom of knowledge is an important...

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 30, 2016

Video: Witchcraft & Voodoo Episode 2 – Syncretic Religions

In Episode 2 of Witchcraft & Voodoo, Voodoo Priestess Lilith Dorsey and I discussed what...

March 24, 2016

From the Shadows: “By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them”

How do you determine whether or not a faith has value? If I, again, were...

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 16, 2016

Video: Witchcraft & Voodoo Episode 1 – The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Ugly

Episode 1 of Witchcraft & Voodoo, a collaboration between myself and sister Patheos blogger Lilith...

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...

January 2016

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 11, 2015

Support Project for Awesome & National Novel Writing Month

Decrease World Suck! Support Project for Awesome and National Novel Writing Month! Let me tell...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

Samhain: The Wheel of Life & Death

Celebrate being alive with all of your passion and might; because Death comes for us...

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".

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 13, 2015

Persephone in Leathers & Hades with a Lightsaber

Do you believe that the deities are static, or do you believe that They change...

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...

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 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 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...

July 02, 2015

The Many Faces of Wiccan Divinity

Wiccan theology is actually very complex. It is perfectly valid to interpret Wicca as duotheism,...

June 2015

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 28, 2015

A Devotional for Brighid

A devotional song for Brighid; part of the Pagan Experience blog project.