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March 2019

March 23, 2019

Is Magic Real?

I went through the same struggles as as everyone else when I started down this...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

What Is the Emerald Tablet?

Long a mainstay of Western alchemy, the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus holds a path...

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 15, 2018

Habit, Freedom, and Daily Practice

Anyone can slip free of their bonds. The challenge is to learn how to live...

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 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 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 02, 2018

The Soul of the Magician

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

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...

June 2018

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 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...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

Daily Practice: Train for Success

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

March 2018

March 08, 2018

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Formula of Mastery

What we need most is often the exact same thing that is hardest for us...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

The Other Side of the Hedge: Lie like a Magician

This is not an admonition against lying. The world of magic is a place for...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: What Harry Potter Got Right (and X-Men: Apocalypse Got Wrong)

The Ministry of Magic was an admission that people who don’t do magic don’t trust...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: True Discipline

True discipline comes from neither rule nor iron rod. It is not something we learn,...

August 07, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Magic Is in You

We must abandon the self-help movement, step away from comforting gods, and throw ourselves into...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Daily Practice Saves Lives

The time to train is before you’re in a fight for your life. Begin your...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: How to Build Your Magical Altar

If a religious altar is a doorway for the gods and spirits to come to...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: We All Start as Fools

Years of self-doubt and struggle aren’t a cruel joke played by the universe. They’re the...

April 09, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Don’t Trust Your Spirit, Train It

In a time of Internet memes, the bumper stickers of the Information Age, it’s easy...

April 02, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: What is Magic For?

In the good old days, the occult was about things like finding your vocation in...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Hidden Knowledge

The occult isn’t inherently evil. It is powerful, and often opaque. That can be scary...

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