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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 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...

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 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 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 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 21, 2015

Happy Solstice!

Happy Solstice to one and all!

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...

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...

April 2015

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 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;...

April 03, 2015

The Life and Death of a Pagan Spirit Warrior: Heather Arlene Carr

You may have seen the news by now, probably because of the headline: "Pagan fire...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Hanging With the Horned God

Am I devoted to my god? Absolutely. Do I love Him? Without a doubt. Do...

March 13, 2015

Belief Makes it Real: In Memoriam of Terry Pratchett

Yesterday Terry Pratchett died. His work contributed directly to my spirituality and many witches and...

March 13, 2015

As Above, So Below

What do I seek from the Divine? For myself, I seek the numinous. I want...

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 20, 2015

Daughter of the Moon

A Christian would say that "God moves in mysterious ways." Apparently so do Goddesses. This...

February 06, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Multiverse

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

February 06, 2015

The Special Nature of Humanity: How Atheist Paganism and Polytheism Can Both Be True at Once

Now that Paganism has been around for a while, we are in the process of...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

Old Hornie

I've got an . . . interesting . . . relationship with Old Hornie. Call...

January 19, 2015

Quantum Woo: Quantum Entanglement

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

January 16, 2015

Apples and Orangutans: Traditional Witchcraft vs. Wicca

Traditional witchcraft often argues its legitimacy by claiming superiority over Wicca. But they bear only...

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 10, 2015

Faith, Feminism and Gender

Our culture's current ideas about gender and sexuality are so dangerously messed up that they...

December 2014

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...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Book Review: Walking Between Worlds by Nornoriel Lokason

Sable reviews fellow Patheos Pagan blogger Nornoriel Lokason's new book, "Walking Between Worlds: A Survival...

November 17, 2014

Quantum Woo: What is Quantum Woo?

Some believe that the growing fields of quantum mechanics and quantum physics have great implications...

November 15, 2014

Wicca: A Syncretic Faith

Is Wicca a syncretic religion? What does that mean, and what implications would this definition...