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September 2021

September 05, 2021

Bewitched, Bottled, and Bewildered

A dip into folklore, an unexpected treasure, and a family who accepts me unconditionally but...

September 03, 2021

Gardnerian All Along

I'm used to situations where somebody says, "You know how Gardnerians are," and I say,...

September 01, 2021

Witch This, Not That: Shadow Work

If you want to pursue "shadow work" as part of your personal Witchcraft practice, that's...

August 2021

August 30, 2021

Seeking Witch Life Off the Beaten Wheel (i.e., Podcasts!)

"What's the worst thing that could happen? Okay, you summoned the Goddess Nyx, and there's...

August 27, 2021

The Deathly Call of Witchcraft (Or, Keats and Yeats Are on Your Side)

While wild Wilde is on mine.

August 26, 2021

Sisyphus Shrugged: A Stab at Defining Paganism

Paganism is a collective term for modern-day belief systems with roots in the pre-Christian religions...

August 24, 2021

Wicca is Dead Again. Long Live Fidget Spinners.

I think about fidget spinners every time someone announces, "Wicca doesn't work," and then starts...

August 20, 2021

The Horned God of the Witches: a Discordian Book Review

Jason Mankey keeps writing books, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who can...

August 16, 2021

Screaming Jackalope and the New Warrior Training Adventure, Part the Third

The conclusion of my New Warrior weekend: final thoughts, future reflections, and parking guidelines.

August 15, 2021

Screaming Jackalope and the New Warrior Training Adventure, Part the Second

The next installment of my New Warrior weekend, in which I learn that straight dudes...

August 14, 2021

Screaming Jackalope and the New Warrior Training Adventure, Part the First

My friends all thought I was joining a cult. By the end of my first...

August 12, 2021

Discordian Jubilees: Zarathud and the Season of Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is the inevitable consequence of artificially imposed order. And dollars to donuts says that...

August 11, 2021

And THAT’S how you hex the Moon. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Gather 'round, children, and prick up your ears, because I'm going to teach you how...

August 09, 2021

Vampires Anonymous (a Very Short Play in One Act)

There have been a lot of memorable moments over the past nine years of sobriety,...

August 01, 2021

Based on True Fiction: Chaos Magic and the Threefold Law

If a metaphysical "law" first appeared in a fantasy novel and gained popularity through a...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Scribble Me This: Perspectives on Making Sigils

Sigils have been used for millennia, long before Chaos Magic bounded onto the scene. And...

July 26, 2021

Ground and Out: Bouncing Back from Ritual Hangovers

Feeling woozy once the magic is through? Me too! So here are some handy grounding...

July 20, 2021

Witch This, Not That: Avoiding the Lust of Result

"Lust of result" is exactly what it sounds like: being so emotionally invested in the...

July 15, 2021

Discordian Jubiliees: Confuflux

To celebrate the Holyday of Confusion, I decided to find out if artificial intelligence could...

July 12, 2021

Color Out of Chaos

There is a framework to Chaos Magic that makes it what it is, and a...

July 10, 2021

Hidden Heritage > White Fragility

My 11-year-old niece wrote an essay about the racism she's encountered as an Asian American....

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Horizontal Hostility and the Butterfly Effect

Marginalized folks are still fighting for the right to exist, and those who read "normal"...

June 21, 2021

Stormy Justice (and Justice for Stormy)

Could spiritual workers be denied civil liberty if someone decides to question the "sanity" of...

June 18, 2021

It’s All Fun and Games Until the Trees Start Hugging Back

By popular demand, it's the highly-anticipated return of the Sense Fairy.

June 09, 2021

The Momentum of Misattribution

When we don't properly attribute the sources we use in our practices, we create unnecessary...

June 06, 2021

Witch This, Not That: Taking a Pagan Name (I promise you’re not doing it wrong.)

The only person who gets to decide who you are is you.

June 02, 2021

Sri Syadasti and the Season of Confusion

Today, we celebrate a Discordian Apostle while deconstructing the only joke in the Principia Discordia...

May 2021

May 29, 2021

Looking for Signs in All the Wrong Places

If we can't differentiate between a standard-issue coincidence and a communiqué from the Gods, we're...

May 19, 2021

Cancelled for Renovations: More Thoughts on Closed Practices

We need to be able to identify cultural appropriation if we're going to avoid it,...

May 11, 2021

Witch This, Not That: Cutting Cords

The first rule of casting a cord-cutting spell is don't tell everyone on social media...