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September 2025

September 05, 2025

Witchcraft is the flower of the Western Magical Tradition

I’m a Witch and a magician. Can I be both? If so what do I...

January 2022

January 01, 2022

Spring Will Rise Again

The year is ending. Let it. This is the magic of change, unmaking and remaking.

March 2020

March 18, 2020

The Armor of Ra Hoor Khuit

In this time of extraordinary demand we are all drawing on our inner and outer...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Top Six Things I Learned By Travelling to India

One: The Trip is Only Part of the Journey I did a lot of reading...

February 12, 2020

Nema: Thelema’s Oracle of the Future

As a magician I draw inspiration from the women who came before me. Generation over...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

A Thelemic Pilgrimage to India

There are three pilgrimages a Thelemite can make: Scotland, Egypt, and India. This week I'm...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

The Black Goddess Nuit

I sing of the Black Goddess Nuit. I sing of the limitless velvet expanse of...

July 08, 2019

What Witches and Magicians Can Learn from Jewish People

In the era when I converted to Witchcraft my religion could endanger my my place...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Babalon Rising is the freedom of Thelema

Babalon Rising manifests the freedom of Thelema. This is the second year I've attended, and...

April 2019

April 20, 2019

And the Earth Helped the Woman

The earth echoes through the religions of the world. Even religions which have explictly rejected...

April 19, 2019

How do Thelemites and Witches celebrate Easter?

Thelemites and Witches generally define ourselves as non-Christian so we wouldn't normally think about celebrating...

April 10, 2019

I will give you a war engine

Ra-Hoor-Khuit speaks: "I will give you a war-engine." It is the high holy days for...

April 09, 2019

Existence is pure joy

Hadit speaks: "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy." It is the high holy...

April 08, 2019

Every man and every woman is a star

Nuit speaks: "Every man and every woman is a star. " It is the high...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

How does spiritual worth look on me?

Does my body demonstrate my spiritual worth? I've been meditating recently on the body as...

March 15, 2019

The body as spiritual focus

The body is a powerful spiritual focus. I take a stretching class at the gym...

March 04, 2019

Questioning my faith

As a Thelemite use the word faith differently than most people do. I don't mean...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Connecting at Pagan Conventions

Going to PantheaCon this year reminded me that connecting is why I go to Pagan...

February 06, 2019

The Value of Diversity in Thelema

At Pantheacon a few years ago I ran a discussion on diversity in Thelema. We...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

Is the Term Black Magic Racist?

White light is good. Black magic is evil. We use these terms routinely in everyday...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

A Thelemite says enough

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

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...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

Seven things I learned from Babalon Rising

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

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 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...

June 24, 2014

Thelema and Witchcraft: was Gerald Gardner head of the O.T.O.?

Many Witches are unaware how deeply involved Gerald Gardner was with Ordo Templi Orientis. How...

June 23, 2014

Five False Rumors About Aleister Crowley

There are legitimate critiques that can be leveled against his life and work - these...

June 20, 2014

The Divine Sun

I looked up at the sun, and it struck me with a blaze of light....

June 17, 2014

Summer solstice: the sun in Thelemic ritual

The sun is important to Thelemites. Here are some ways in which the sun plays...