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December 2015

December 26, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Meditation Hut

The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids suggest building a meditation hut. The idea of...

December 24, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making an Altar

An altar is a focus for devotion, prayer or meditation. It can be simple or...

December 22, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Food

The sharing of food and drink is one of the most ancient and basic rituals...

December 19, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making a Mandala

A mandala is a twofold meditation tool. The process of creating it is meditative, and...

December 17, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Storytelling

Most spiritual and religious traditions have a corpus of stories which transmit their values and...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

When We Are Birthing, It Helps to Breathe Through the Pain

When we are birthing, it helps to breathe through the pain. An invitation.

November 06, 2015

Witchcraft: the Middle Way

There is always a middle way between two extremes. Here I attempt to present a...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

In Praise of the Body

The body manifests in many different shapes and sizes and colours. There are female bodies,...

October 07, 2015

Polarity and Diversity

In my experience, magical polarity can be created by any pair of opposites. Inner and...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Cultural appropriation is about power

What many commentators miss is the power differential in cultural appropriation. People forget that we...

September 12, 2015

Teaching and Learning in a Coven

Learning is a collaborative process between the teacher and the learner. It is not the...

September 09, 2015

Madness, Shamanism, and Wicca

The history of madness is long, convoluted, and fascinating. Different theories and treatments have come...

September 07, 2015

Welcoming the stranger and the refugee

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the correct way to welcome a stranger who has been washed ashore:...

September 04, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Social Structures

The fact that people can own land, that property is deemed more important than human...

September 02, 2015

Agreeing To Disagree

Arguments make some people uncomfortable. It is true that conflict can be divisive, but it...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

Faith and Belief

Many Pagans will tell you that they do not have faith and belief, because they...

August 11, 2015

Creating a consent culture

Consent culture is the view that everyone has the right to enjoyable sex, which they...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Many deities, one beloved

It is possible to be a monogamous polytheist, or a polyamorous monotheist. I am monogamous...

July 17, 2015

Pagans and politics

What is the relationship between Paganism(s) and politics? Some have argued that Paganism is not...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Pagans and Money

Whenever the subject of Pagans and money comes up, there arises the vexed question of...

June 24, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Things we care about

Some issues are associated in people's minds with being Pagan, most obviously environmentalism and feminism....

June 20, 2015

A Queer Pagan Reading List

Here are a bunch of books for the LGBTQ Pagan reader. I have either read...

June 19, 2015

Why Pagans don’t proselytise or evangelise

Pagans don't actively seek converts because we believe that the realisation that you are a...

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Spirituality – let the buyer beware

Every time I have an encounter with someone who has an interest in spirituality, and...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Blue Beltane

With about ten days to go before Beltane, I find my thoughts turning wistful and...

April 20, 2015

Re-Imagining the Hero’s Journey

Not everyone wants to be king. Not everyone wants to end up married and live...

April 16, 2015

Tradition and change

What is a tradition? What is the function of tradition? What are valid criteria for...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Woman with the Pen: Five Moments On My Way Back to Patheos

There are many radical and beloved and ferocious warriors whose voices I treasure above my...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

A Pagan coming-out ritual

A ritual that celebrates coming out as a rite of passage, and welcomes the newly-identified...

January 2015

January 01, 2015

Gender and sexuality in Wicca

This is the video of my talk at Witchfest in Croydon, November 2014. The talk...