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April 2026

April 07, 2026

Two Smoking Wands: A Witchfest Mystery Romance

Austin Witchfest remains the highlight of my year, although this time around, there were more...

May 2025

May 25, 2025

Lapsed Lutheran on the Loose at Austin Witchfest 2025

As far as I'm concerned, any Austin Witchfest that starts with me not getting disappeared is...

March 2025

March 07, 2025

I Promise You Don’t Have to Read Tarot to Be a Witch

The right deck for me is no deck at all.

January 2025

January 31, 2025

When the Truth Comes Out (Or, Divindication)

Logically, divination shouldn't work. So when it does, or when it works a little too...

August 2024

August 01, 2024

The Keys to Witchcraft: A Post-Mystic South Misadventure

It’s after midnight. Do you know where your keys are?

May 2024

May 23, 2024

Reading Is Funny and Mental: Divination Gone Wrong

Logically, I know that readings are rarely if ever 100% accurate, but to have one...

January 2024

January 27, 2024

And That’s How I Renovated a Psychic Fair

Divination may not be the world's oldest profession, but it is clearly a close second.

January 13, 2024

POV: You’re the Switzerland of a Witch War

Never underestimate the dark power of bottomless mimosas.

October 2023

October 25, 2023

Faster, Red Goblin! Die! Die!

Car trouble. Chaos magic. Italian folk spirits. Business as usual.

July 2023

July 21, 2023

Things You Hear at Mystic South

Some people go to Pagan conferences to collect memories, or inspiration, or souvenirs. Me, though,...

June 2023

June 26, 2023

Adopting a Chaos Familiar

The familiar assists the witch with their magic, and in return, the witch introduces the...

May 2023

May 18, 2023

When Someone You Know Thinks You’re Wiccan

If you practice any kind of witchcraft, someone will eventually ask if you're Wiccan. And...

March 2023

March 19, 2023

Brothers in Arms and the Magic of Matching Tattoos

The majority of our escapades left behind lasting impressions, but my favorite exploit left permanent...

January 2022

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 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...

November 2021

November 27, 2021

When Oracles Attack

I know I'm going to survive. But I also know better than to go into...

November 03, 2021

Truth Be Told: Keeping the Good, Bad, and Ugly in Divination

When we gaze into the future, the future gazes back. And whoever blinks first loses.

September 2021

September 26, 2021

Discordian Jubilees: Bureflux

When Mercury goes through a retrograde, the specific spheres of influence it governs go... well,...

March 2021

March 24, 2021

Not My Psychic Circus, Not My Magic Monkey

Transactions produce expectations. Just as you wouldn’t pay to have abuse heaped upon you (unless,...

March 22, 2021

A Week in the Life of a Hyperfocused Witch (or, The Story of Bee)

There’s a misconception that people with ADHD can’t concentrate, when in fact the opposite is...

March 01, 2021

The Last Outcast Left Standing

Have I evolved to the point where I can let go of grudges and participate...

February 2021

February 08, 2021

Goreymantic Edwardination

Scouring the Internet for an Edward Gorey Tarot deck, I eventually discovered the laminated grail...