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March 2023

March 30, 2023

Death, Dogs, and Cherry Blossoms

As if to fit that mood, there was trash dumped in my old playground, and...

February 2023

February 10, 2023

Eulogy For A Difficult Brother

How do we eulogize people who were difficult to others and to themselves? And how...

February 04, 2023

My Brother Died Today

But right now I'm tempted to consider whether putting unglamorous photos of dead alcoholics up...

January 2023

January 02, 2023

Assemble: A Sigil for 2023

American society is dis-integrating, becoming disconnected. That's killing people. It's urgent that we find ways...

December 2022

December 20, 2022

Yule: Holding Space For The Light

It's useless to judge a candle that gets blown out in the wind; my job...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Artistic Opinions Aren’t Religious Virtues

I am fairly certain that, should my life ever be judged by the gods, these...

September 2022

September 15, 2022

Parental Death, Ancestor Work, And The Search For Love

My father is five years dead, and his death was a great blow. But I...

September 06, 2022

Netflix’s Sandman Is Just Okay

Netflix's adaption of Neil Gaiman's Sandman is...okay. Good, but not as excellent as it might...

June 2022

June 23, 2022

What We Owe The Babies

"It's what we owe the past. What we owe those who invented speech, writing, mathematics,...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Smoking Out The Pagan Gatekeepers

Be wild. Disrespect convention. Steal ideas, steal fire from the gods, steal the gods themselves....

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Technopaganism (Winterstar 2022)

I think the first time I encountered the word "techno-pagan" was in the late 1990s,...

January 2022

January 08, 2022

Shifting: A 2022 Sigil

As I was thinking about the new year, the word that came to mind is...

December 2021

December 18, 2021

Thirteenth Amendment Day

Perhaps when we wish each other "Happy Holidays" in recognition of the number of festivals...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

The Pathetic Life And Death of Joseph Rosenbaum

Dumped into a riot zone by our pathetic-in-the-inadequate-sense mental health care system, unable to obtain...

October 2021

October 27, 2021

The Serenity of Shikata Ga Nai

You can't solve the halting problem, you can't make someone love you, and you can't...

September 2021

September 23, 2021

A Sigil For Letting Go

In traditional East Asian medicine, autumn is the season associated with Metal in the "Five...

August 2021

August 01, 2021

Yoda, Hui Neng, and the Sacred Texts

Star Wars is heavily influenced by the mythology of the samurai; and the philosophy of...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Dionysus Will F**k You Up

Dionysus can take you places and give you power and freedom if you respect him...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

1917: The Real Start of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

British imperialism shaped how Zionism developed, betrayed the Arabs of Palestine, and is a root...

May 21, 2021

Energy In The Art Of Magic

Our "energy" is an experiential, psycho-socio-emotional phenomenon. It's not measured in kilowatt-hours or Newton-meters.

May 06, 2021

Ouijaphobia! From Swedenborg to the Ouija Board

Thus the Ouija board, with roots in Swedenborgian and Spiritualist philosophies that put a benevolent...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Happy Walpurgisnacht!

It conveniently happened that Walpurga was canonized on May 1 of 870 (or so), when...

April 08, 2021

Poem: “the fox stands under the streetlight “

Had a visitor to the neighborhood on Sunday who seemed worth commemorating in a poem....

March 2021

March 01, 2021

No, That’s Not An Odal Rune

That's obviously not an Odal rune. It's a square stage set at 45 degrees, with...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Punk Magick

Magick is about change. But change is always happening. What sets magick apart is that...

February 20, 2021

When Bad People Die

Rush Limbaugh's angry, nationalistic faux populism paved the way for Trumpism, and I will not...

January 2021

January 20, 2021

A Spell for Vaccination

As we are dealing with a plague such as some of my ancestors survived, and...

January 18, 2021

Am I Insurrecting Or Not?

When fallacies about the ends justifying the means are set aside and we must judge...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Yule Movies: Returning from the Darkness

So as we find ourselves in a darker Yule than usual, remember that you have...

December 17, 2020

Getting Things Moving With Frankincense and Myrrh

This spell uses these stagnation-busting powers on a higher level, to free stuck energy. Can't...

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