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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...

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...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

People Are Like Firewood

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

January 2020

January 20, 2020

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

Divine voices work mysteriously

October 2019

October 19, 2019

PantheaCon, Politics, and Pagan Festival Policies

The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Your Invitation to the Free Spirit Gathering And Starwood

Festival season is coming! And I'd like to invite you to two events where I'll...

April 13, 2019

Travel, Renewal, and Ancestor Work

Travel gives you an opportunity to raise the magickal energy, but you have to take...

April 10, 2019

Liminality, Mastery, And Interdependence

As I write this I am in that most liminal of places, in transit between...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself, Again

As we drum and dance and support each other around the fire, we sort of...

September 2018

September 03, 2018

My Labor Day Mystical Experience

It is the way of these things that they are ineffable. To even say "I...

July 2018

July 21, 2018

Why You Should Go To Starwood

I’ll be posting more about what this year’s Starwood meant to me personally. Meanwhile, I...

July 17, 2018

Pagan Atheism (talk from Starwood 2018)

To answer the question “Do the gods and goddesses exist?” we need to answer two...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

Renewal, Grieving, And Video Blogging With Friends At The Free Spirit Gathering 2018

I spent last week at my twentieth Free Spirit Gathering. I was reminded of the...

November 2017

November 13, 2017

Healing At Autumn Fires

Then I started dancing. And it became a ritual, the unloading of a million pounds...

May 2017

May 13, 2017

Kyoto Bonus: Daruma-dera Visit

The figurines symbolize a proverb: if you fall down seven times, get up eight times....

May 07, 2017

Even In Japan, Things Change

Everything needs a little renovation now and again, even the human heart.

May 06, 2017

Kyoto’s Ancestors Are Watching; Deities In Commerce

It was as if the ancestral spirits were watching out over the city. I don't...

May 05, 2017

Seven Lucky Gods And The Spiritual Function Of Travel

And it reminds me of one of the spiritual functions of travel: to shake up...

May 03, 2017

Punching At The Shrine, Partying At The Temple

It demonstrates the way these two different paths fit together here. Religion is not seen...

May 01, 2017

Back In Japan

And so I'll get a little time in here with both Shinto and Buddhist deities.