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September 2026

September 01, 2026

A Witch Honors Dolly Parton among the Mighty Dead

What makes Dolly an important interfaith exemplar is that she did not require everyone else...

November 2025

November 07, 2025

A Witch’s Funeral Rite For Release and Remembrance

Samhain is the Witch’s season of endings and beginnings — when we face death as...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Fulfilling her Fervent Wish

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 's most fervent wish was to not be replaced on the Supreme...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

The World is on Fire and It’s OK to NOT be Ok

The World is literally on fire, and I am NOT okay. Such heinous things are...

February 2019

February 06, 2019

Winter’s Lessons of Silence: Putting the “Be” Back in Imbolc

As I glide down the post-Imbolc ebb, I find being-ness. Winter teaches me to shut-up...

November 2018

November 12, 2018

Death Toll: Tales of Love Beyond the Grave

Witches tend to have a wyrd perspective of death. Death does not frighten me, and...

October 2018

October 26, 2018

Revenge of the Zombie Gourd

The Zombie Gourd will eat your brains, my people. In both olfactory suffering and cash...

October 14, 2018

Samhain Sabbat Index: Reflections, Rituals and Magick

Following is an index of articles about Samhain, Halloween and the Autumn, including meanings of...

October 01, 2018

A Witch’s Ghost Story: The Graveyard Visitation

Before her body was even laid to rest, her ghost came to find me and...

March 2018

March 06, 2018

Is there Free-Will in a Witch’s Choice for Reincarnation?

After all, who would really want to be born into poverty, or born a crack...

November 2017

November 07, 2017

Samhain Ritual: Wake of the Fallen King

Journey with me to a Witch's Sabbat, an intimate peek at a Samhain Ritual with...

November 01, 2017

For Tomorrow We May Die – The Witch’s Dumb Supper

On Samhain night, witches typically hold a Dumb Supper, where we eat, drink, and are...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

The Grinch Who Stole My Halloween

The Grinch who stole my Halloween is a broken and fearful society lead by an...

October 05, 2017

Raising Witchlings: The Gold Fish Cremation

When you die, do you want to be planted or burned up? she asked. I...

October 04, 2017

The Apocalypse of Autumn

Autumn is like the apocalypse where the colorful veil of illusion falls away and we...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

Interpreting Omens: The Nest and the Bloodbath

What omen, poetically speaking, is to be found where the natural ending and destruction of...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

Unbroken Circle: A Pagan Song of Redemption

This pagan funeral song was written about my joy at seeing that Mom lived on...

November 18, 2016

Death Toll: Peace in the Interim

Sometimes that crash into rock bottom is just the impact you need to bounce your...

November 15, 2016

Death Toll: Amazing Grace

When your mom dies, you step into the gap she leaves, because you owe her...

November 14, 2016

Death Toll: Visitation

My whole life changed for the better after the passing away of my evangelical mother,...

November 01, 2016

Death Toll: Psychic Agent

Like her psychic agent, doing her bidding from beyond the veil, she'd grabbed hold of...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Death Toll: Coming to Terms

My mom is brain dead. Dead. The outer world sort of snaps, twists and shrivels...

October 27, 2016

Death Toll: Passing Away

Death takes its toll in many ways, but the ferrymen will have his due. Making...