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The Other Side of the Hedge

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March 2019

March 10, 2019

Three Virtues of the Practitioner

Three virtues define the practitioner's power to effect change in the world. Virtue is the...

February 2019

February 24, 2019

Power and Magical Ethics

"With great power comes great responsibility" always seemed like wishful thinking. But, as our power...

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...

September 2018

September 22, 2018

Seeking Silence, Seeking Power

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

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...

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 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 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...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

The Other Side of the Hedge: Dignity for Dunces

If we want to have more than naked power, and earn the respect of others,...

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...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Restoring Virtue

When it comes to virtue, the West has lost its way. The way back is...

October 2015

October 04, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism and Virtue

In Paganism, we spend a lot of time shouting across the chasms of meaning and...

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