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December 2015

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 25, 2015

Three Short Witchy Book Reviews

Sable's brief opinions on three witchy books that you may have considered reading.

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 27, 2015

Samhain: The Wheel of Life & Death

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

October 21, 2015

The Star Goddess

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

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...

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 23, 2015

Happy Equinox!

Happy Equinox blessings everyone!

September 21, 2015

A Mabon Formulary

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

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 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 07, 2015

Has Anyone Else Noticed the Share Buttons Are Gone?

Or is it just me?

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 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 21, 2015

Happy Solstice!

Happy Solstice to one and all!

June 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Burnout

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

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...