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November 2024

November 05, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: Trickster at Samhain & Election Day

The Trickster generally doesn't make trouble so much as reveal the trouble inherent in the...

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....

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...

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...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Lady Liberty, American Goddess

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

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...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

“Shaman” Is A Fine Word For A Shaman

"Priest" can be a specific term referring to Catholic religious figures but it also has...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

How The Gods And Heroes Operate

The exploits of superheroes can inspire the merely mortal citizens of their comic book and...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Sandman At 30: The Birth Of A Pantheon

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We...

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...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

What are your #Mythstruck4?

There's an Internet meme going around under the hashtag "#filmstruck4". The idea, initially posted by...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

FSG: Music and The Morrigan

So the Morrigan, that Celtic goddess (or trinity of goddesses) of war and death (but...

June 2017

June 07, 2017

Reason, Social Justice, and Dionysian Frenzy

No disrespect to Dionysus, but social justice is not a job to which you send...

May 2017

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...

March 2017

March 12, 2017

“Sarasvati” (Song, “52 Makeup” Week 9)

This is the first time I've written anything along the lines of a chant or...

November 2016

November 10, 2016

The Power — Or Lack Thereof — Of Prayer

Every time that someone said "We're praying for her", the subtext of that was "I...

August 2016

August 02, 2016

Ellicott City: Climate Change, Land Development, and Angry Land Wights

But on Saturday, with no warning or prelude the Tiber rose 12 or 15 feet,...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

Why Batman v. Superman Matters

Batman and Superman matter, because the tales of the superheroes are our modern myths. By...

March 24, 2016

The Gods Are Like Golden Apples

A golden apple is no trinket. You don't just pop over to the produce aisle...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

The Creative Spirit and “Fun a Day”: “Black Hole Susan”

And one concept, one motivating structure, I've found for that is the "fun a day",...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

The Buddha Was A Handsome Man — Should a Female Dalai Lama Be A Lovely Lady?

If he believes that the Buddha was a good-looking guy, who used supernatural means to...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

Enchantment and objectivity

There can be plenty of enchantment in the objective world-view. There is a form of...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Good-bye and Hello as Always; The Only God to Whom Jupiter Must Bow

Boundaries in their role as both endings and beginnings are also on my mind because...