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October 2019

October 23, 2019

A Zen Pagan Ghost Story For Samhain

But as the creepier side of the season reminds us, sometimes unwelcome presences can push...

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 03, 2019

The Last Minute Still Counts

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

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...

January 2019

January 05, 2019

A Sigil For Political-Artistic Liberation In 2019

We sometimes think of creativity as a light, playful thing, an airy-fairy luxury for the...

December 2018

December 21, 2018

Not Much Light But It Beats The Darkness

Are we on the watch for the light, or for the darkness? The whole phenomenon...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

The Veil And The Void

What if we thought of the veil between the worlds not as a separation between...

October 15, 2018

Manifest The King, Honor The Ancestors

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

July 2018

July 03, 2018

Throwing The Flag In The Trash

And so every year I have to throw a little plastic flag into the trash....

January 2018

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...

January 01, 2018

In 2018 I Resolve To Believe In You

Fractal Cat is a Baltimore band that I've been fortunate enough to watch come together...

December 2017

December 23, 2017

Happy Festivus! (On Satire And Parody Religion)

"Religious humor is a form of 'deep play' that works to renegotiate ideas about tradition,...

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...

December 17, 2017

Yule: Going Slowly In the Dark

Here in the dark of the year even the weather invites us, demands of us,...

November 2017

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...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Who Are You, What Have You Sacrificed?

And then some folks get the idea that Jeshua might have the qualifications to be...

March 2017

March 20, 2017

“Walking the Dog in the Equinox Twilight” (Poem, “52 Make-Up” Week 11)

I'm going to try to show something about revision, and how a rough bunch of...

February 2017

February 02, 2017

Groundhog Day and Ikuru

So he does three things: he works to improve himself. He comes to love the...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Random Wednesday: Leave The Lights On, Hating Yourself, and Cops For Criminal Justice Reform

Today I made the random decision to leave my holiday lights on until Imbolc. (It's...

January 08, 2017

Right Recollection: Beyond Mindfulness in the New Year

Mindfulness is big these days. While that's not awful -- maybe a focused corporate raider...

January 01, 2017

Congratulations! You survived 2016

So celebrate your good fortune. And may you have all the gods you need.

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Random Wednesday: Solstice Candles, Family Dinners, and 52 Weeks of Creativity

Welcome to the last Random Wednesday of the year. Farewell 2016, don't let the door...

December 21, 2016

Falling Down, Getting Up

Whether we've failed once or seven times or a thousand, the thing we need to...

December 16, 2016

On Santa Claus and Pantheism

Sure, there wasn't a magic guy with a flying sleigh, etcetera, but there was an...

December 14, 2016

In Praise of Socks and Underwear

Seriously, it's getting cold out there. Warm clothing is seasonally appropriate. A good comfortable base...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Samhain in the Hospital: My Mother Is Not Dead

And it's occurred to me that the hospital is a liminal space: between life and...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Lammas Reflections

It is a bit of an orphan holiday. Yule, of course, has a big celebration...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

Ryōkan’s Moon

"I'm sorry that you've come all this way to see me, and I have nothing...