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October 2024

October 20, 2024

Six Lessons Of Samhain For The Modern World

I see no reason to separate our celebrations into “secular” and “sacred.” They’re all part...

October 13, 2024

What Is Witchcraft For?

I don’t want to talk about what witchcraft is – I want to talk about...

October 02, 2024

Streaming Revenge II – 13 Horror Movies For Halloween

I watched a lot of horror movies this year. I eliminated the ones that weren’t...

September 2024

September 29, 2024

Proselytizing For Certainty: An Impossible Task

The apologists of Threads aren’t trying to convert atheists so much as they’re trying to...

September 22, 2024

My Protest Vote – A Cautionary Tale

I have friends who don’t like either candidate in the upcoming election and are considering...

September 18, 2024

Reading Tarot – How I Interact With Clients

Someone asked “what is your reading style?” I gave a brief response (“calm and focused...

September 12, 2024

Demons in the Pagan World

I’m too busy with my own Gods to pay much attention to the spiritual persons...

September 08, 2024

An Apostate’s Guide to Witchcraft

It’s not enough to walk away from a bad religion – true healing requires finding...

September 01, 2024

Reading Tarot For Wisdom And Guidance

Good divination begins with a good question – vague questions lead to vague answers. But...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

Why I Became More Liberal As I Got Older

People say that as you get older, you get more conservative. That may be true...

August 20, 2024

Dealing With Doubt: A Modern Pagan Approach

Religious questions are inherently uncertain. In the absence of conclusive evidence, doubt is unavoidable. But...

August 12, 2024

Being Pagan In An Era Of Religious Decline

Pagans trying to copy Christian models didn’t work, and trying to copy “none of the...

August 08, 2024

The Wicker Man and the True Nature of Sacrifice

The best movies don’t just entertain you – they also make you think. The Wicker...

August 01, 2024

The Rising of the Star

In 1941 Dion Fortune instructed her order to stop concentrating on defense and start visualizing...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

11 Things About Mystic South 2024

This year’s Mystic South conference in Atlanta was good as usual. Here are 11 observations...

July 21, 2024

8 Thoughts After the Republican Convention

What I saw from the Republican National Convention confirmed what I already knew – Donald...

July 17, 2024

The Need For Ecstatic Experiences

Sometimes the problem isn’t that I go too far with deep spiritual and magical experiences,...

July 14, 2024

The Necessity of Chaos and the Divinity of Set

A God of inhospitable places and a God of chaos is a God nonetheless. In...

July 10, 2024

Religious Experience – How We Know What We Know

An Evangelical blogger asks if ecstatic religious experiences are rational, and if it’s good for...

July 07, 2024

Courage

Fear is natural and necessary – it helps keep us alive. But our current socio-political...

June 2024

June 30, 2024

Tower Time Is Still Very Much With Us

I stopped talking about Tower Time because too many people were expecting an apocalypse or...

June 26, 2024

A Pagan Reviews An Evangelical Book About Pagans

The Return of Paganism fails to make a rational case for the superiority of the...

June 23, 2024

Why I Believe But Don’t Care If You Do Or Not

When people ask why I believe in the Gods, I’m happy to tell them. But...

June 16, 2024

The Summer Solstice: Celebrating Before the Labors Begin

We stand at the Summer Solstice. The planting is done and the harvesting is yet...

June 09, 2024

Paganism Is Anything But Boring

A Catholic writer called Paganism “mostly very boring.” That may be the laziest criticism of...

May 2024

May 28, 2024

Dear Exvangelicals: I’m Rooting For You

Dear Exvangelicals: I got out of Evangelical fundamentalism and onto a religious path that is...

May 22, 2024

Three Classic Vampire Movies

One of my favorite simple pleasures is watching old horror movies. I recently watched three...

May 19, 2024

What It Means To Be Thankful “It Could Have Been Worse”

Many people intuitively give thanks when they experience something bad that could have been worse....

May 12, 2024

Spiritual Practice When You Don’t Feel Like Practicing

If we stop practicing whenever we don’t feel like it, we’ll never get anywhere. But...

May 01, 2024

Walpurgisnacht in the Infirmary

I went outside on Walpurgisnacht to make offerings and to hope that there might be...

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