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August 2025

August 18, 2025

Unpacking Your Religious Baggage

Announcing a new 8-week on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Unpacking Your Religious Baggage...

June 2025

June 04, 2025

The Summer Of A Better Year

Last year honesty compelled me to admit things in my life weren’t good. This year...

April 2025

April 20, 2025

Do The Work That’s In Front Of You Now

I can’t see a way out of “all this.” But I’m firmly convinced there is...

March 2025

March 16, 2025

Remember to Feed Your Soul

I wish things were different, easier, more accepting and less combative. More cooperative and less...

February 2025

February 12, 2025

This Is A Time For Dangerous Magic

You can wait until things get truly desperate and then start working magic. Or you...

January 2025

January 05, 2025

Deity Work

Do witches do deity work? Some do and some don’t. But my practice begins with...

July 2024

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 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...

May 2024

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...

March 2024

March 17, 2024

Survive and Advance

Some problems can’t be fixed. Sometimes no amount of effort, no amount of money, no...

February 2024

February 21, 2024

5 Ways to Deepen Your Paganism

The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware...

September 2023

September 17, 2023

Hold Loosely But Practice Deeply

What do you do when your head tells you there is only the natural world...

June 2023

June 14, 2023

An Experience of the Gods that Left Me Floored

Seven questions and answers about the Gods and our experiences of Them, Pagan books, spiritual...

May 2023

May 21, 2023

4 Questions (and Answers) on Relationships With the Gods

Here are four questions on our relationships with our Gods and our obligations to Them.

April 2023

April 09, 2023

Once You’ve Had a Taste of the Otherworld

The Gods I serve and who occasionally allow me to experience them directly have forbidden...

April 05, 2023

Recovering From a Post-Ritual Hangover

Post-ritual hangovers happen after rituals that raise a lot of energy or that involve the...

April 02, 2023

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

Journaling is a lesser-known but very helpful spiritual practice. Memories are fallible – writing them...

February 2023

February 15, 2023

Paganism: A Religion of Doing

Our traditions are sacred and our virtues are timeless, but how we embody and express...

November 2022

November 06, 2022

Paganism for the Long Haul

What do you do when you find yourself clinging to a familiarity that has become...

September 2022

September 25, 2022

Building a Relationship with the Nature Spirits Where You Are

Building relationships with your local nature spirits isn’t complicated, but neither is it easy. It...

September 06, 2022

The Role of Art in Paganism

Four questions on three topics: the purpose of art in Paganism, restarting a spiritual practice...

August 2022

August 28, 2022

Discipline, Discernment, and Blogging Schedules

I’ve learned some things this year. Discipline is important. Discernment is more important. Spiritual practice...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

Pagan Monasticism as a Solitary Practitioner

Announcing a new on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Pagan Monasticism as a Solitary...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

The Impossibility of Advanced Spiritual Practice

At some point there are no more books, no more classes, no more teachers. There’s...

March 06, 2022

Spiritual Practice on Vacation: If You Have To Ask, Don’t

A Christian blogger suggests “bringing God on vacation with you.” His post brought back some...

February 2022

February 13, 2022

This Far and No Farther

Occasionally, Heinrich Heine has been right. Those who burned books ended up burning people. We...

December 2021

December 21, 2021

Just Keep Moving

Our Gods are not divine helicopter parents – I’ve heard one consistent message throughout this...

September 2021

September 26, 2021

What It Means To Put Your Gods First

Putting your Gods first doesn’t mean giving Them your whole life – leave that for...

August 2021

August 24, 2021

Introduction to Pagan Spiritual Practice – A Polytheist Approach

Announcing a new on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Introduction to Pagan Spiritual Practice...

August 13, 2021

Spiritual Practice in Difficult Times

Prayer, meditation, offerings, observing the changing seasons – this (and more) is what we do....