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November 2016

November 24, 2016

A Pagan Requiem

I have been thinking for a while that we need more liturgical poetry in Pagan...

November 22, 2016

A Meditation: The Trees and the Forest

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Creating Meaningful Public Ritual

We have all been to rituals that fell flat, or didn't work as intended. We...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Pagan Ritual for Pulse, Orlando

After the Orlando shooting, a small group of LGBTQIA Pagans came together to create a...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

May Morning in Oxford

May Day is coming. This year, May Day falls on a Sunday, which is great...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

But What About The Tradition?

Truly traditional Pagans should regard LGBTQIA people as an integral part of society. There should...

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Hearth

The hearth is traditionally the place where you honour your ancestors and household gods and...

January 06, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Grounding and Centering

Many Pagan rituals begin with grounding and centering. It comes from the Taoist tradition originally,...

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.

June 2015

June 15, 2015

Summer Solstice, and the gender-stereotyping is easy

A whistle-stop tour of Sun goddesses and Moon gods to celebrate the Summer Solstice

April 2015

April 27, 2015

A lament

We must turn away from seeing only things And learn to see the sacred in...

April 23, 2015

Blue Beltane

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

April 16, 2015

Tradition and change

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

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Move over Easter Bunny, here comes the Easter Fox

I do think that pagans, of all people, have an ethical obligation to respect the...

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...