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February 2016

February 09, 2016

Pantheacon – And So It Begins

P-Con is a roiling, bustling, boisterous, intensely earnest and wholly magical temporary village

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Imbolc In The Reclaiming Tradition

Outside of initiatory oaths and our personal vows to each other, these pledges are the...

January 22, 2016

Creating Your Own Rituals & Daily Practices

Rituals can be wonderfully complicated, requiring tools and incantations and over the top locations and...

January 20, 2016

A Ritual For January

We speak out loud as if the Old Year was just a few hundred yards...

January 11, 2016

Remembering David Bowie

A life dedicated to art and beauty and exploring the ugliness and reinvention when convention...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

The Year That Was 2015

We said goodbye to some loved ones and made new friends and cultivated community and...

December 16, 2015

A Pagan Christmas – Eat, Drink And Be Merry

Okay, okay! We get it. Christmas is all about celebrating the birth Christ and what...

December 10, 2015

A Winter Solstice Gift

I have work to do in this world. I have words to write. I have...

December 01, 2015

Pagan Practices – Telling Stories

I tell stories about workshops and rituals and WitchCamps and festivals and that one time...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

13 Samhain Traditions (Well,at Least at Our House)

It’s a time to pull out everything Samhain and Halloween related. Our house is always...

October 06, 2015

Spiraling Into The Center

A spectacular gift to be in the presence of a thousand Pagans, witches and seekers...

October 02, 2015

What Does It Mean To Work With Your Ancestors?

Our ancestors have been as much rowdy as gentile, artistic as bawdy. If we were...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

It’s Mabon – Or Something Like That

And here’s the thing about Mabon - We’re not all that concerned with what the...

September 01, 2015

Witch? – Yes I Am A Witch

I find the company of witches to be a place where I can compost what...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Pagan Prayers Gladly Accepted

Community showed up and offered to help in whatever ways they could. We are an...

August 20, 2015

Why I Am Still A “Community” Witch

Community is a place where I can go for support. Community is real people that...

August 05, 2015

Many Gods West – Many Reasons to Attend

There are many gods. The gods are real. Let’s get to work. These sentiments were...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Lammas – Thoughts about Harvest

Note: This article was originally published Lammas of 2014 on Gwion's website, however, it describes...

July 27, 2015

Lammas – Bread Magic

Lammas may reach back into Pagan European Harvest rituals and clearly the word “Lughnasadh” has...

July 22, 2015

Ritual Drumming – Cultivating Ecstasy

Picture this – A grove, deep in the woods, lit by a raging bonfire. The...

July 13, 2015

Baba Yaga – A Week Lost in The Woods

I just spent a week in the redwoods with more than one hundred witches. We...

July 08, 2015

Sex – It’s All About Sex with Pagans, Right?

By and large, the Pagan community we’ve come to know, is willing to have frank...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

Witchcamp – Into The Woods We go

A Witchcamp is a retreat unlike any other. There are plenty of Pagan gatherings, conventions,...

June 15, 2015

A Summer Solstice Ritual – Honoring Fathers

Summer Solstice celebrations often coincide with Father’s day and although neither of us care much...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Iron Pentacle: A Tool For Relationships

Sex. Pride, Self, Power and Passion - Look at the myths from practically any culture...

May 01, 2015

Beltane Rituals: Beyond the Bang

Beltane; the birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, the flowers are blooming, it seems...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

A Witch In Australia

Through the magic of modern technology, Phoenix and I have been co-writing this piece on...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

The Introvert and Extrovert Get Married

One of us is the most beautiful of social butterflies. The other is not. The...

March 10, 2015

Being on the Same Path is Awesome, Except When it Isn’t

You like strawberry cheesecake.They like strawberry cheesecake. They think Spring is the coolest time of year and...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

When Worlds Collide – Coming Back From Pantheacon

Have you ever come back from a vacation or a spiritual retreat and had the...

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