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February 2015

February 28, 2015

How the dress can help you understand Pantycon

If someone is seeing something that you're not, then you should treat that moment as...

February 25, 2015

Why Witches Need Privacy

Anyone on the fringe is taught to constantly doubt themselves, and that insecurity saps our...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Please Vaccinate Your Children

Please, listen: being Pagan, embracing the beautiful irrationality of religious experience, delving into the natural...

January 26, 2015

5 Young Adult Novels for Witches

The Witch's Boy, Chime, Shadowfell, Witchlanders, and Call Me Isis. Ain't YA great?

January 16, 2015

What Does Fundamentalism Look Like?

Fundamentalism turns deities into boogeymen, and leaving fundamentalism means realizing that the boogeyman never existed.

January 11, 2015

Io Aphrodite – An Aphrodite Mandala

Far from being "just" a goddess of love, Aphrodite is one of the biggest, most...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

13 Tips For Being the Best Witch You Can Be

If you meet the Goddess, kill her.

December 16, 2014

Hanukkah is a spell to make the sun come back

When the candles are burning, I say my Pagan prayer: "Blessed is the Shekhinah, who...

December 14, 2014

Growing in Drought

What's the point of gardening, I wonder, when we're not going to get any rain?...

December 10, 2014

Hymn to the Morrigan #8

My latest in a series of hymns.

December 06, 2014

Killing Magic, Healing Magic

White supremacy, police brutality, and the Morrigan's curse.

December 02, 2014

Nature is for the Rich

“Just because people have money doesn’t mean they’re obligated to give it to everyone who...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

Tuition Hikes, Ferguson, Witchcraft, and Thanksgiving

To me, Witchcraft is about touching the undercurrents that shape our reality and redirecting their...

November 20, 2014

Would You Catcall the Morrigan?

Catcalling is part of rape culture, and street harassment is a form of violence.

November 18, 2014

Spirituality Versus Superstition (Or: What If We’re Making It All Up?)

Superstition, for me, is a spiritual or magical practice born from fear instead of love.

November 14, 2014

Tending the Altar

Four women, singing a spell and tending our altar. Four Witches, our voices lilting in...

November 10, 2014

Welcome to Shekhinah Calling! Featuring social justice, Morrigan devotion, Pagan librarians, and space cat gifs!

When the Shekhinah calls me, it's not the voice of a goddess who's somewhere far...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Getcher $68 Crystals Here! Crystals, $68 a Pop!

Native Appropriations's Facebook page posted a link to this Death and Taxes article: I have always said...

October 13, 2014

Ravenna Sóley’s “Birth of a Priestess”

Go read the rest of this poem: She is born when she feels herself pregnant....

October 10, 2014

Theurgic Binding: A Response

For the past couple of days, I've been mulling over whether to post some kind...

October 10, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #7

Behind the teeth of nightmare there is knowledge. Within the monster's chambered heart is love. Your...

October 01, 2014

Tantrum (A Prayer to Badb and Nemain)

Tonight my daughter happily emptied three baskets of toys onto the floor. Before her bath,...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #6

Sacred lover, Your menstrual blood the wine of warriors, Your breath that which shudders the earth...

September 19, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #5

Dark lady, you whisper in my ear. Witch queen, you whisper: Weave magic into the wind...

September 12, 2014

Stillness within, Power Without

I have depression, and I'm under treatment. Luckily, my current (and hopefully permanent) treatment is...

September 08, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #4

O Angry Earth, We have relinquished our claim to you. How patient you were! How...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Morrigan Hymn #3

Lady of Peace! Lady of Power! Lady of Sweetness! Lady of Honey! Lady of Bloodlust!...

August 21, 2014

Hymn to the Morrigan #2

Terrible Grandmother, Black and Red Woman, Let me drink your rage Until it transforms me....

July 2014

July 25, 2014

Embodying the Wild, Confronting Death

I was just pointed, by way of Rhyd Wildermuth's post on climate change, to Peter...

July 19, 2014

Pagan Blog Project: Offerings

A few weeks ago I was invoking East for an esbat when I let the...