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October 2026

October 02, 2026

Chess Grifters, Chinese Rooms, and AI

LLM AI systems do not "understand" anything. So don't be a sucker. As Harry the...

September 2026

September 14, 2026

Jason Arday, Con Man

Academia's self-image as a force for justice and progress left it vulnerable to Jason Arday,...

August 2026

August 05, 2026

Starwood 2026 — This Is Not A Review

Know that part of the magick is that you are where you need to be....

March 2026

March 11, 2026

Miracles Are Only Temporary

Even miracles, it turns out, are only temporary. It's tempting to get angry about that,...

February 2026

February 04, 2026

Thank You, Ms. G.

She's not the first regular patient of mine there to pass on, but she was...

January 2026

January 02, 2026

Partnering Up in 2026

We have to work together. The system of exploitative capitalism, the "1%" that runs the...

December 2025

December 21, 2025

Holiday Lights, Solstice Fires, and Jizo’s Jewel

Tonight, I turned on the holiday lights and set up my little Winter Solstice ritual...

March 2025

March 13, 2025

Comfort The Dying; We’re All Dying

It's a simple syllogism: Comfort the dying. Everyone is dying. Therefore, comfort everyone. In this...

January 2025

January 07, 2025

Communication: A Sigil for 2025

In a time when so many are deliberately cutting off communication -- calling for their...

December 2024

December 31, 2024

Fixing the Mailbox: A Holiday Omen

So I'm making that my theme for 2025: communication. Let the way be opened, not...

November 2024

November 05, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: Trickster at Samhain & Election Day

The Trickster generally doesn't make trouble so much as reveal the trouble inherent in the...

September 2024

September 22, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Warrior at Mabon

Of all the archetypes we're considering, the Warrior may be both the most problematic and...

August 2024

August 01, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Captain at Lughnasadh

The Captain is in the field or on the ship with those he leads, in...

June 2024

June 20, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The King At Midsummer

He does not command, he is not a conqueror. Instead the King is the conduit...

May 2024

May 05, 2024

Deconstructing the Bears Vs. Men Memeplex

In this memeplex we can find misandry, a romantic misview of nature, a base rate...

May 01, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Preacher at Beltane

The Preacher does not issue orders or set himself above those he speaks to in...

April 2024

April 04, 2024

Eclipse 2024: Ritual For A Reset

If some part of your life is in Bad Order and you could use some...

March 2024

March 19, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Lover at Ostara

The Lover we are considering here is not necessarily a romantic or a sexual figure....

February 2024

February 03, 2024

some things you just can’t fix

We talked around it not about it the elephant in the room: the corpse in...

February 01, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Healer (Shaman/Smith) at Imbolc

But unlike the archetypal Magician, who is isolated in study of his art, the Healer...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Masculine Archetypes: The Magician at Midwinter

The archetypal Magician is the keeper of hidden knowledge, the master of special skills and...

December 20, 2023

Symbolic Magic And The Dead In Arlington

We are in the realm of symbolic magic dealing with the dead, and should tread...

December 07, 2023

Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right

Mom always said -- and quite likely your mom said it too -- that two...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

The Flautist In The Woods

It's an old cliche that "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear", but...

September 18, 2023

Grieving The Summer

Autumn is the season of metal, associated with grieving and letting go. It is also...

August 2023

August 02, 2023

Speaking to the Dead on the Wind Phone

So when I saw that someone had set up a "wind phone" at the Starwood...

July 2023

July 07, 2023

For Best Magical Results, Set Your Intention

And that means that for the best results, the magician must be clear about what...

June 2023

June 12, 2023

The Unabomber and the Escalation of Disorder

Kaczynski was not just any violent revolutionary, overconfident in the rightness of his solutions to...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

People Are Like Firewood

The only way to precisely engineer a wood fire is to pelletize the wood, to...

May 11, 2023

The System Killed Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny, whether he acted reasonably and killed by accident or recklessly and committed manslaughter,...

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