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May 2016

May 11, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: the Need to Ground and Shield

Creativity is by its nature radical. Grounding and shielding helps us protect ourselves when the...

May 02, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: The Need to Slow

One cannot seek endarkenment with the clock ticking or the timer going off.

April 2016

April 28, 2016

You’ll Never Walk Alone

I congratulate the Hillsborough families for their victory. Justice at last. The names of the...

April 21, 2016

The Brewery of the Gods!

It is well known from the lore that the gods actually have a brewery, not...

April 11, 2016

Cultural Appropriation has nothing to do with “race”

Cultural appropriation is when someone from a colonising or culturally dominant culture takes a ritual...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

Authority in Religious Traditions

We live in a culture and a time where it's hard to be a polytheist....

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Hearth

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

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Combinations of Difficult Questions #PinkOut

What if a woman’s voice is the tree falling in the forest? What if women's...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

“No One Understands About Black”

Light without dark is the intolerable bright glare of torture and interrogation. We need our...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Re-Imagining the Hero’s Journey

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

December 2014

December 05, 2014

One Pagan in the Season of Advent, the Season of #Ferguson #MikeBrown #EricGarner

Why have we been silent?

October 2014

October 22, 2014

The Thirteen Vanic Virtues

The Vanir have their own set of virtues...

October 15, 2014

Art, Agriculture, and Ancestors

Each year in October we move as pilgrims through the rural landscape, stopping at each...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

My Three R’s: Running, wRiting, and Resiliency

Don't think it is easy to hit rock bottom, turn around and say, Okay, again,...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Moving Beyond “Environmentalism”

The world is alive and aware and we are part of it.

July 18, 2014

Embodiment and Woundedness: Owning Up to Being an Animal

When I stepped into the waters of Lake Superior, I recognized the sensation exactly: I’ve...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Listening Is an Act of Dilation

Listening is a creative act. It’s a sacred act, to listen fully to another. We’re...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

Be the change you want to see in the world

As a queer and polytheist Wiccan, some of the changes I would like to see...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Silence equals complicity: making Pagan groups safe for everyone

We are supposed to be a community that values women, that believes women are the...

March 18, 2014

What happens when the oil runs out?

The oil won't run out overnight, and if we are lucky, it will be managed...

March 12, 2014

Pagan prayer

A prayer can be nothing more than time taken to set an intention for the...

March 10, 2014

Wiccanate Privilege and Polytheist Wiccans

We should dismantle Wiccanate privilege as soon as possible. Let’s have devotional polytheism, liturgical Paganism,...

March 05, 2014

Drugs: it’s all about the context

Drugs and other mind-altering substances have been used in a sacred context for millennia. It...

March 04, 2014

If you build it, they will come

I would like to see Pagan weddings become legally recognised in England and Wales. I...

February 2014

February 14, 2014

Lupercalia

Whatever the origins and timing of Valentine's Day, 14 February was originally the date of...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Pagan sacraments

A rite of passage is a ritual designed to make sacred a particular life event...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Values, beliefs, practices

What makes you a Pagan? Is it what you believe, what you do, or something...