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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 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 31, 2016

The Spirit of Halloween

It's October 31, and I get this twitchy, itchy, witchy feeling, and I'm suddenly a...

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...

October 13, 2016

Gods Willing and the River Don’t Rise: A Spell Against Flood Damage

I invite you to join me in this prayer and spell-working against flood damage from...

October 06, 2016

When the Samhain Bell Tolls for You

Samhain is the sabbat where the witchcraft set before us includes accepting grim realities, like...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Celebrating Mabon: Love in the Balance

Learning to balance the "light" and the "dark" aspects of life is tough, but equinoxes...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Hail Mercury…in Retrograde!

Much like a square dance where all the partners are all swinging around in their...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

Shopkeeper Sagas: All that is Gold Does not Glitter

As a Shopkeeper, there is a lot of heinous, soul-sucking minutia that goes on behind...

July 11, 2016

Shopkeeper Sagas: Not All Who Wander are Lost

We are saving the world through love, fellowship, hard-work and a fierce sovereignty that battles...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Confessions of a Witch on Fire

The most instructive stories are more like a confession, where I own my own shit,...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Beltane: Once you Go Witch You’ll Never Switch

Just as I warn a new lover, I warn all my new witchlings, too. Before...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Broom Closets and Bible Belts – 10 Tips For Your Coming Out Party

For 15 years I lied and hid who I really was from my mother, and...

January 12, 2016

Witch on Fire: Hermes Gongs the Cosmic School Bell

Lo! As the first moon of my service waned into darkness, I began my quest,...

December 2015

December 08, 2015

A Witch’s Carol: A Tale of Three Hauntings

I hope that my story of this haunting, affirms for you that Spirit is universal,...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

A Thanksgiving Transmutation of Tens

I'm walking the tight rope between a need to pay for the necessities of life...

November 10, 2015

Salvation of a Southern Witch

Gather 'round and let Mama Heron tell you a story, the back-story, a Witch's Come...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

Witch on Fire: A Wish Upon Dying

What I can tell you from my intimate experience with funeral planning, is that their...