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December 2020

December 10, 2020

Crappy Holidays!

This Yuletide season is looking bleak. So what can we do when things suck?

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Samhain Magick: Deer and Planetary Conjunctions

Some will offer you a pre-designed, classical system for doing this. That's fine but my...

November 04, 2020

The Coming American Troubles

Rather than an 1860s style civil war, I foresee something more like the Irish Troubles:...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

The Zen Pagan Endorses Bread and Roses

Even if the Bread and Roses Party itself is never heard from again after this...

October 15, 2020

Karma Is Not Justice

But there are reasons that the spiritual traditions that have achieved power in the world...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Go Forth And Re-enchant The World

I know people who call themselves or are initiated as witches and wizards and magicians...

August 2020

August 02, 2020

Blackberries and Bitterness at Lammastide

The past few days have been among the worst in my life. I find that...

June 2020

June 15, 2020

Honeysuckle and Fireflies

Yes, the plague is killing thousands! and Yes, the oppressors are brutal! and Yes, the...

June 10, 2020

Police Violence: Seeing the Fnords

The fnords are the cliche phrases and stock tropes that obscure the truth without actually...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Making Magic and Change During COVID-19

This period of change isn't over and will not be for some time. That means...

May 08, 2020

Shop Like A Warrior

But on my shopping trips over the past few weeks I've been struck by how...

April 2020

April 05, 2020

A Tarot Reading For The (April) Fool

If we accept the Way of the Fool, we can keep perfect hope even at...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

Papa Legba And The Internet

It is Papa Legba (not "the devil") whom we meet at the crossroads. And what...

March 19, 2020

COVID-19: We’re All In This Together

A bit more than twenty years ago, after my 30th birthday, I went away for...

March 08, 2020

Paganism and Countercultures

We might find each of these groups sympathetic. Artists, poets, nature lovers, advocates for alternative...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Grid And Growth (52 Make-Up, Part 4)

This image brings to mind the way in which the solid, rational, straight-line world supports...

February 14, 2020

Frederick Douglass’s Root Magic

Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly...

February 09, 2020

We All Get To Do Everything, Because We’re All Everyone

I seldom remember my dreams, but sometimes they are humdingers. From this one came a...

February 01, 2020

Lady Liberty, American Goddess

She is the totem of the United States, and if her attributes seem contradictory and...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

Broken and Golden (52 Make-Up, Week 3)

There is no avoiding the breaking, the cracking, the flaws. But it is up to...

January 20, 2020

“You Will Not Be Left Alone” (52 Make-Up, Week 2)

Divine voices work mysteriously

January 07, 2020

Who Am I?

Fifty is a big landmark. And now that I've almost gotten there, in some ways...

January 06, 2020

January Robins (52 Make-Up, Week 1)

but I am a magician, a poet in the realm of acts and what I...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Finding: A 2020 Sigil

As I considered what I need for this coming year, and what I think we...

December 31, 2019

It’s A New Year Until Imbolc

The year remains New until Imbolc, more or less midway between December's winter solstice and...

December 16, 2019

Yule: Keeping The Pilot Light On

I've done it every year since, and I'm come to think of it as keeping...

December 16, 2019

Violence as a Koan

At first glance the 1980s action movie Roadhouse seems a world away from the eight-century-old...

December 11, 2019

Magic As A Social Force

Magic gives us the power to believe that we, individually, are important. In that, we...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Thanksgiving Isn’t Colonialist…

The 1621 celebration was not identified by anyone as the "First Thanksgiving" until 1841, when...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Working with Jizo Bodhisattva at Samhain

Death is the great mystery, the undiscovered country, the unavoidable confrontation with the boundaries of...

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