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February 2019

February 02, 2019

Animism and the Power of Waterfalls

Waterfalls are places of spiritual power. They provide not just a sense of wonder, but...

January 2019

January 05, 2019

Three Real Stories of Magic

Pagans rarely talk about the day-to-day of the magical world. In the world of social...

December 2018

December 02, 2018

On Developing Skill in Magic

Skill is the way we take knowledge and apply it into the world to create...

November 2018

November 10, 2018

Eight Hundred Days

We are living through an era of rapid change and social dislocation. Daily practice creates a...

November 03, 2018

Keep It Secret

Secrets and the occult go hand-in-hand. While anyone can benefit from some spiritual cultivation, students...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

The Wheel of the Year in a Single Breath

The Wheel reflects the yearly, monthly, and daily cycles of life. These are the cycles...

October 13, 2018

This Halloween, Reveal Yourself

We spend most days negotiating who we are. This is the season for revealing who...

October 06, 2018

A Deep Dive into Animism

Being an animist only begins with greeting trees. Such practices provide a deeper understanding of...

September 2018

September 22, 2018

Seeking Silence, Seeking Power

Achieving inner silence is not only possible, it already exists inside us. Silence is not...

September 15, 2018

Vocation, Vocation, Vocation

Only three things matter in the path of the priest: vocation, vocation, vocation. If faith...

September 08, 2018

Daily Practice, Two Years On

After two solid years of daily practice, I have good news. Like so many other...

September 02, 2018

The Soul of the Magician

The human soul is not some abstract idea locked away from reality. It is our...

August 2018

August 25, 2018

Identity Is Not Your Friend

Without a deeper understanding of identity, our daily conflicts are no more than a we-said...

August 11, 2018

Abandon the Known, Pursue the Real

Abandoning the known and pursuing the real is frightening, risky, and, at the end of...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

Set Goals like a Wizard

Maybe, like me, you were raised to always look to the future. The perfect life...

July 21, 2018

Spell Books, Training Manuals and Treatises

The importance of Pagan books. In the West, the image of a wizard with his...

July 14, 2018

Three Gates to Transformation

The Three Gates are the ways that we, practitioners, enter the Path of Transformation. It is...

July 07, 2018

Pagan Tribalism in America

America's tribalism is tearing the country apart, and (sometimes it seems) us with it. The...

June 2018

June 16, 2018

Three Essentials of Daily Practice

Getting started with daily practice is hard. I will not deny that. I know the...

June 09, 2018

The Path of Transformation

Real change. It's the hardest thing in the world, and the best reason to step...

June 02, 2018

Spiritual Anatomy: Never Mind

Mind, body, and spirit; these are ideas we take for granted. We are taught to...

May 2018

May 25, 2018

How to Make a Wizard’s Staff

The Wizard's staff is far more than a big wand. While it might have started...

May 19, 2018

Making and Using Magical Tools

Magic is a craft, and every craftsman has his tools. Finding the right tool for...

May 13, 2018

Modern Myth: The Wizard of the Mounds

While everyone remembers Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian, we might not remember Mako's Wizard of...

May 04, 2018

Lost Wisdom: The Journeyman

Though there is no guild stopping us from claiming the title, in truth most of...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Six Hundred Days

Yesterday was the day. I have completed six hundred days of "daily practice." I write fairly...

April 20, 2018

Daily Practice: Train for Success

It is a big universe out there, and there is nothing we can do that...

April 14, 2018

Becoming Magic

Being chosen is not the only path to practicing magic. Some are chosen. Some begin...

April 07, 2018

The Great Work, Nine to Five

Work. The daily grind. The rat race. There are a lot of ways we describe...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animal Wisdom

Animals have not forgotten the geography of the real. They know things that we either...

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