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March 2026

March 09, 2026

What Makes a Good Ritualist? No Idea

What Makes a Good Ritualist? No Idea, But Here Are Some Things I Do. (This...

November 2025

November 04, 2025

Witchcraft Remembrances & Appreciation at Samhaintide

The first books we read about Paganism and Witchcraft often have an outsize impact on...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

Raymond Buckland & The Big Blue Book

"Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft" is seen as a classic today, but it's road into...

June 2023

June 14, 2023

The Rebirth of Cernunnos

(Adapted and excerpted from The Book of Cernunnos, edited by John Beckett & Jason Mankey....

May 2023

May 09, 2023

Magickal & Pagan Gathers: Some Thoughts

I'm often asked "how is the festival scene?" and it's something I never really have...

January 2023

January 26, 2023

Hekate: Goddess of Witches

When discussing the Greek gods in the modern era, it’s hard to escape the idea...

January 20, 2023

The Good & Bad of Witchcraft Book Covers

What makes for a good book cover? It's hard to quantify. What I love you...

August 2022

August 22, 2022

New Selves New Witchcrafts

A Witchcraft that doesn't grow, doesn't allow for change and innovation, doesn't allow room for...

June 2022

June 09, 2022

Festivals & Authors

I like going to Pagan festivals and conferences for a variety of reasons. Some of...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Lessons Learned: Ten Years at Patheos Pagan

My ten years writing this blog have been a profoundly life changing experience, complete with...

March 2022

March 08, 2022

Poppet Magick

To put it simply, a poppet is a puppet used for magickal purposes. Poppets are...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Can We Lose Deities? Fuzzy Polytheism, and Wicca on Mars

What would Wicca be like on Mars? Can we lose deities? My fuzzy polytheism.

January 19, 2022

Astonished & Influential Witches Yesterday & Today

Post-Yuletide can be a little blah, so how about some questions from friends and readers?...

December 2021

December 21, 2021

Best Witchcraft & Magickal Books of 2021

Everyone's tastes are different, but here are my favorite Witchcraft and magickal books from 2021.

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Ask Me About Witch Ritual: Tips & Tricks

There's a lot we can do to improve public ritual, and most of those things...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

The “Woke” Horned God

One of the things that's most important to me in regards to the Horned One...

July 06, 2021

Why We Need to #DefendOccultBooks

Simply, we are defending the tradition of seeking, the tradition of looking for information, and...

July 01, 2021

What If?: Alternative Histories of Witchcraft & Paganism

What if things in the Pagan and Witchcraft world's had unfolded just a little bit...

June 2021

June 06, 2021

Reopening Paganism

s the days grow longer, vaccination rates slowly tick up, and COVID cases fall, it...

March 2021

March 09, 2021

COVID-19 & Witchcraft Practices: One Year Later

The current pandemic will result in changes for both Witchcraft and Paganism going forward. But...

February 2021

February 08, 2021

Witch, You Vex Me

What follows are a few things that vex me in the Witchcraft world. They are...

February 02, 2021

Wicca: Misconceptions & Misidentity

If people are going to throw the entire Wiccan-tradition in the trash, they are going...

October 2020

October 07, 2020

The Call of the Gods: Moments, Practices, & Doubts

Do the gods reach out to us, or are we required to reach out to...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

My Practice is Not Lost, But it Is Struggling

My practice has not been lost, but it is struggling.

July 2020

July 23, 2020

Beginning Witches: They’ll Be Fine

No matter the time or place, there will always be some young and/or new Witches...

July 15, 2020

The Know-Nothing-Witch

There are many types of Know-Nothing-Witchery. There are those who truly know very little, and...

July 07, 2020

Books Aging Poorly: Scott Cunningham’s “Wicca”

Scott Cunningham's "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" is now over thirty years old,...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Liminal Gateways & Porous Boundaries

The boundaries between our world and that of literature and film is not as absolute...

March 2020

March 04, 2020

Expectations & Pagan Authors

My early days as a Witch were heavily influenced by what I read, and one...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Wicca & Cultural Appropriation

As the largest and most noticeable subset of Modern Paganism, the mistakes of many Wiccans...