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January 2021

January 04, 2021

Sunset Doesn’t Last All Evening: A Coda and a Benediction

Nothing gold can stay... or, to steal a line from George Harrison, all things must...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

A Word Before the Drop: On Politics, Ethics, and Compassion

We're on the even of the most important election of our lifetimes, one that literally...

July 2020

July 13, 2020

A Hole in Our Midst: On Moral Vulnerabilities in Esoteric Communities

Our communities have made themselves safe spaces for entitled, selfish jerks who make our spaces...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

What Your Favorite Wheel-of-the-Year Day Says About You

I’ve noted in previous posts that my relationship with the Wheel of the Year is...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

What Your Favorite Ritual Tool Says About You: An Exercise in Humor

What DOES your favorite ritual took say about you? What messages are you unknowingly sending...

May 24, 2018

An Alignment of Belief and Praxis

Even as we invoke the land, we contribute to its destruction.

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Marks of the Witch: The Bend, the Need, and the Will

It's not necessary to be born a witch or to be made one by someone...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Some Unconventional Thoughts about Pagan Conventions

That's not to say that conventions aren't important, or filled with magic. They can be...

February 08, 2018

Safer Sex Magic: Dancing in the Thicket Between Science and Religion

Magic is notoriously one of those words where, if you ask any ten practitioners, you'll...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Meeting My First Pagans: An Autobiographical Interlude

If she was telling the truth—if there really were druids and witches and magicians still...

September 11, 2017

Tracing the Thread: Critiquing Gender Essentialism in Paganism, Polytheism, and Magic

Gender essentialism isn't a Wiccan problem, nor even a Pagan problem. It's a human problem,...

September 07, 2017

“How It Ought to Be”: The Problem of Gender Essentialism

Pagans and polytheists like to think we're free from gender-based bigotry, but are we really?...

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