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March 2018

March 24, 2018

A Thelemite says enough

I am a Thelemite gun owner who wholeheartedly believes in gun control. I am marching...

March 08, 2018

Respect the no in O.T.O.

Today members of the Ordo Templi Orientis band together to support our sisters in Thelema,...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Seven Magical Ways to Prepare for Your Own Crossing

Part of dealing with life is facing the fact that it will one day come...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Five Things I Learned from the Women’s March

One. When women are in charge the world is more peaceful. The march was a...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Christmas is for Pagans too

Christmas framed my childhood. I miss it!

December 20, 2016

Resistance to Trump: Seven Magical Tips

It's official: the electoral college confirmed the election of Donald Trump. Here are seven ways...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Prayer for Standing Rock

The Standing Rock tribe has asked that we join them in prayer. Here is a...

November 21, 2016

When your ancestors are racist

My ancestors are Trump people.

November 18, 2016

We need art now more than ever

Art saved me this week.

October 2016

October 24, 2016

Helping a loved one die

I helped someone die this week. It was a sacred privilege. It's Samhain season, the...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

The best devotional method

The most complete, detailed, and sophisticated description of the devotional method is Aleister Crowley’s Liber...

August 19, 2016

Writing a book as initiation

In September 2013 I drove out to a friend's country house for a weekend writing...

August 15, 2016

Six things I learned from the O.T.O. Women’s Symposium

One: We need a women’s symposium.

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Shaping the Witch’s body

Magick has been shaped on the able white male body. Right now the people with...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

Standing with community on Pride Weekend

In the mid-1980s I walked the Pride Parade with Lavender Magic. It felt both celebratory...

June 20, 2016

Seven things I learned from Babalon Rising

At Babalon Rising I heard “Thelema is the religion that we are making.”

May 2016

May 04, 2016

What remembering you on circle means

Whenever a friend talks about some difficulty they are facing in life I ask “can...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Performing a handfasting wedding

When I offered a theurgic devotional to Hera she asked if I would perform a...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

A book to jump-start Egyptian magical practice

This reprint of a 1998 book is a welcome addition to the Egyptian Magic bookshelf.

November 2015

November 01, 2015

When the veil of life falls

How do you remember the people you have lost? How do you prepare for your...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

Women at the Parliament Saving the World

I was riveted by Dr. Vandana Shiva's declaration that "the real solution of climate change...

October 05, 2015

Cultural Appropriation and Theft

Exchange only happens when people are meeting as equals. Who decides what is cultural exchange,...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

Going Clear: is O.T.O. a “black magic cult”?

In the documentary "Going Clear" author Lawrence Wright called Parsons "the head honcho in this...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

L. Ron Hubbard the Magickian?

L. Ron Hubbard studied magick. How good was he at it?

March 30, 2015

L. Ron Hubbard and the O.T.O.

Lawrence Wright touched on the early connection between Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Jack...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Are Demons Real?

Medieval grimoires treated demons as fierce spirits with powers that could be harnessed to the...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Is “Do What Thou Wilt” a moral code?

Thelemites live by the Law of Freedom, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Magicians and climate change

When I first woke up to how desperate our situation has become I became suicidal....

July 14, 2014

Thelema and Witchcraft, Part Two: Aleister Crowley, Witch?

Gerald Gardner met Aleister Crowley in the last year of his life. We know that...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Sex Positive Thelema

I've always been sex positive. From my earliest physical stirrings I've believed that the power...

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