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February 2025

February 28, 2025

UPDATE: Remembering Dawn: Why Michelle Trachtenberg Mattered

As we mourn the untimely passing of our beloved Dawnie, it is ok to acknowledge...

November 2024

November 06, 2024

Down the Witches’ Road with Agatha All Along.

What the series accomplishes is nothing short of magical, as it manages to reframe the...

May 2024

May 04, 2024

Taking Another Drink From The Fountain

In Darren Aronofsky's 2006 film The Fountain, the main character takes a kabbalistic journey with...

April 2024

April 23, 2024

Occulture of Dune: Part Two

Adaptations of Dune present the tensions and ambivalence around occult ideas that pervades our current...

April 08, 2024

Occulture of Dune: Part One

Dune is a prominent part of countercultural and occultural history. While Villeneuve's adaptation merely hints...

March 2024

March 22, 2024

Raising a Little Hell with Twin Temple

Twin Temple wraps subversive messages of sex positivity, bodily autonomy, and a healthy dose of...

March 15, 2024

Raising a Glass for Darby O’Gill

The Disney classic Darby O'Gill and the Little People is worth revisiting this St. Patrick's...

March 19, 2021

WandaVision: Grief, Nostalgia and the Narcissism of Superheroes

To what extent do we idolize superheroes who would be utterly narcissistic and abusive if...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

In Memoriam: Dr. Wendy Griffin, Co-Founder of Pagan Studies.

Last week, the world of academic Pagan Studies lost a giant. Scholar, author, researcher, and...

February 10, 2021

Once More with Feeling (?): The Legacy of Joss Whedon

With further revelations of Joss Whedon's conduct on the set of his iconic shows, "Buffy...

February 04, 2021

Wardruna Creates New Journeys from Old Paths

Norwegian group Wardruna continues its journey through the realms of Norse animism with its latest...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Enter Sandman….Again

Neil Gaiman's comic "Sandman," remains one of the most important occultural artifacts of the late...

January 26, 2021

Is It Time to Retire the Disempowered Woman Trope?

Have you noticed how often women who are either witches, superheroes, or fantasy heroines have...

January 21, 2021

Inaugural Magick: Ritual, Power and Glamour

Every four years, we as a nation view the performance of an inauguration ritual, in...

January 17, 2021

Subtextual Healing: Trauma and Genre Television

The entire recent season of "Star Trek: Discovery" is an allegory for collective trauma, our...

January 13, 2021

The Ascension of David Bowie

David Bowie is the ultimate representation of both the fascinating power and the tense anxieties...

January 07, 2021

The Imp of the Perverse: Horror, Witchcraft and Fascism

In "The Imp of the Perverse," The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina reframes witchcraft as resistance...

January 02, 2021

WW84’s Dreamstone: The Occult Secret of the Monkey’s Paw

Given the vast legacy of the monkey’s paw in popular occulture, it’s worth unpacking just...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Top Ten Occult Films and TV Shows of 2020

Occult media scholar Jason Winslade, PhD, provides a list of films and TV shows in...