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December 2019

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...

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...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

Walking Behind The Waterfall At The Equinox

It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a...

September 18, 2019

The Aftershocks of Grieving

I share this so that you may know it, if when next you grieve (for...

September 03, 2019

The Last Minute Still Counts

Because getting something done at the last minute, is still getting it done.

August 2019

August 05, 2019

Of Baltimore And Magic

With just a bit of license, I might say that to be a Baltimorean —...

July 2019

July 17, 2019

Buddha Touched The Earth: A Zen Pagan Ritual Cycle

My inspiration for this year was that the story of the Four Sights could make...

May 2019

May 04, 2019

Disappointing Beltane? Spring Comes Anyway

The beautiful and terrible (in the sense of intense, formidable, powerful, going back to a...

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...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Teaching Within Learning Within Teaching Within Learning

The idea that one reaches mastery and then stops learning and starts teaching might be...

January 2019

January 09, 2019

Heathen Sailors, LGBT Shintōists, And Sexy Biceps

Welcome to the first Random Wednesday of 2019, a randomly appearing feature of short bits...

January 01, 2019

Mastering Time And Space With The Bullet Journal

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an...

November 2018

November 11, 2018

Armistice Day, Veterans’ Day

What we owe our veterans is not some "thank you for your service" platitude. What...

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...

October 15, 2018

Manifest The King, Honor The Ancestors

The sort of King we are speaking of here truly "reigns but does not rule";...

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 17, 2018

Pagan Atheism (talk from Starwood 2018)

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

July 04, 2018

Zen Paganism In The Art of Archery

And wood for a bow is a lot easier to come by than bronze, iron,...

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...

June 08, 2018

The Temple, The Fire, And The Flood

I spent Memorial Day weekend at Playa Del Fuego, the East Coast regional Burn (Burning...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

“Cobra Kai” And Toxic Masculinity

So I'm pretty much in the bullseye of the target demographic for YouTube Red's new...

April 2018

April 14, 2018

The Wounded Healer

But we must be wary of thinking that more suffering enables more healing, that in...

January 2018

January 13, 2018

Everything Is Broken (So Let’s Fix It)

Even the tools to fix the broken things were broken. But if you write about...

January 07, 2018

The Empress Restored: A Dream And Tarot Reading For 2018

Every spread of the cards is a funhouse mirror, reflecting what comes before it, distorting...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Magic And Change At The End Of Time

Change is going to happen. That's pretty much an inevitable part of existence. But if...

November 2017

November 16, 2017

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

One of the Three Treasures of Buddhism is the sangha, the community of seekers. Budo...

November 13, 2017

Healing At Autumn Fires

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

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Samhain: My Father Is Dead

My father's death puts me in a different relationship with my ancestors, and I will...