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March 2022

March 17, 2022

Nobody Expects the Irish Extrasensory Perception

As an alternative to any further deconstruction of St. Patrick, here's a quick anecdote about...

March 15, 2022

Spongy Moths, Tramps & Thieves

A moth with an ethnic slur for a name received a new designation. Predictably, a...

March 13, 2022

Eris Go Bragh: Discordian Omens Fnord the Win

I think Eris might want me to write a book, which is flattering but really...

March 09, 2022

Reading About Writing: Oracle Cards as Editorial Assistants

I’m getting better at letting the Liminal Spirits transmit messages objectively, and not projecting my...

March 05, 2022

Unwitting Witchcraft (Or, The Case of a Christian’s Unconscious Conjure)

Can someone with no occult knowledge or training inadvertently cast a spell? I've never been...

March 01, 2022

The Sunflower Curse

A curse is like a bear trap, with a big, neon arrow and a sign...

February 2022

February 25, 2022

The Love Spell That Didn’t Work

Sometimes, the spells that seem to fail provide happier endings than the ones that succeed.

February 19, 2022

Discordian Jubilees: Chaoflux

Chaoflux is a day to set goals for the coming year. It is also an...

February 17, 2022

Witch This, Not That: Spirit Animals

Will this whole pitch crash like a goose into Fabio's face? Quite possibly. But that...

February 15, 2022

Chasing Wicca

Last weekend, I was present for a Gardnerian initiation. And hoo boy, did that bring...

February 12, 2022

Taking Over the World with My Elite Cadre of Baby Witches

I understand why people dislike the term “Baby Witch," but it just doesn’t bug me....

February 06, 2022

A Mythic Cycle of Non-Binary Archetypes

If Pagans whose genders fall left of center want to squish ourselves into archetypical boxes,...

February 03, 2022

Imbolc Combed Over: The God of Wool and the Patron of Throats

The Imbolc season brings back warm memories of my initiation, my High Priestess, and an...

February 01, 2022

Piercing Portents: Learning to Live with Psychic Flashes

The only thing worse than being a bush-league prophet is being a bush-league prophet that...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

A Tale That Begins with a Beet Will End with the Devil

I am maybe a little overprotective of red velvet cake. I blame the beet juice.

January 20, 2022

The Cruelest Useful Gift

Every tchotchke on my altar has a feel-good story behind it. All except one, which...

January 17, 2022

Commemorating a Year of the Fivefold Law (Or, Faceback Fnord)

Happy Blogiversary! Much like an 80s sitcom airing a flashback episode, I've compiled a montage...

January 12, 2022

Episcopagan: The Musical

When cradle Episcopalians get together, they immediately start debating the merits of Rite 1 vs. Rite...

January 11, 2022

On the Tolerance of Intolerance

It's the Law of Eristic Escalation: When we apply destructive order by tolerating intolerance, the...

January 10, 2022

Spell, Actually… Resisting the Urge to Pagansplain

I want to look at what motivates us to ‘splain, because identifying that will be...

January 05, 2022

Hung Mung and the Season of Chaos

Happy Discordian New Year! It's the fifth day of Chaos, which means it's time to...

January 03, 2022

Nobody’s Actually Going to Prison: A Discordian Reading for 2022

Instead of plonking out an objective, run-of-the-mill geomantic chart, I asked Eris for Her take...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

The Goddess of Getting Away With It

As my final act of 2021, in a post I mostly didn't copy and paste,...

December 30, 2021

If You Can’t Steal Your Own Craft, Store-Bought Is Fine.

In fact, store-bought is preferred.

December 21, 2021

In Which I Literally Beat a Dead Horse: A Yuletide Yarn

This post has a lot of moving parts. Much like a horse skeleton. But if...

December 18, 2021

Ring Out Solstice Bees

No one would fault me if I just curled up in the shadows, because it...

December 11, 2021

And That’s How Poseidon Saved Christmas

The God of the sea, the patron saint of sailors, and the gender-neutral Santa debacle...

December 08, 2021

Discordian Jubilees: Afflux

Afflux is a time to reflect on destruction and creation, to examine things that have...

December 05, 2021

Blood, Sweat, and Tears with the Liminal Spirits. But Mainly Just Blood.

My readings have gone from generally informative to eerily specific. I just wasn't expecting the...

December 01, 2021

Save Me From Tears: Whamageddon 2021

I am on high alert for the next 24 days, with my senses keenly honed....