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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...

June 2026

June 30, 2026

Restoring the Watershed of Divine Love

Perhaps cooperation is not something we manufacture through legislation, ideology, or moral perfection. Perhaps it...

February 2026

February 27, 2026

Perfect Love & Trust in an Age of Fear

A witch’s ethical reckoning with modern America through the Nine Divine Love Conditions—REAL STAAR—and the...

February 01, 2026

Elemental Witchcraft on The Occult Rejects Podcast

Western occultism has spent much of the last two centuries refining systems of analysis, hierarchy,...

August 2025

August 13, 2025

The Pentacle Path Pitch: Witchcraft to Ease the Pain

The Pentacle Path system of Elemental Witchcraft addresses the profound pains of modern society by...

February 2024

February 21, 2024

Forward Escape with The Law of Compensation

The Hermetic Law of Compensation speaks of how the old masters would work to lift...

August 2023

August 20, 2023

The Initiatory Challenge of a Cute Baphomet

"The Baphomet should never be cute." I overheard this spoken among our customers at the...

August 30, 2022

Elemental Witchcraft Classes On-line with Heron Michelle

New on-line training course in Modern Witchcraft now available with Heron Michelle. Based on Chapters...

March 2022

March 26, 2022

Pymander the Rainbow Dragon: The Hermetic Creation Story

A creative re-telling of the Hermetic creation story called The Divine Pymander, heavily adapted into...

December 2021

December 05, 2021

Elemental Witchcraft for Reconciling Divine Paradox

Elemental Witchcraft, is a panentheistic tradition of Hermetic philosophy, whose magick attempts to reconcile the...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

Beware the Witch’s Curse of Love and Lightnin’

Twice this week in conversation with old friends, the same sore subject bubbled to the...

August 2021

August 30, 2021

What I learned from Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente

While I do not claim to be an official Wiccan (more of a fan-girl, really)...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

Religious Discourse: Invasive Orthodoxy or Abrahamic Religion?

Introducing the term "Invasive Orthodoxy" as an alternative to the problematic term "Abrahamic Religions," in...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

Rebooting Beliefs in the Witching Operating System

Beliefs are like a computer’s operating system, which is installed from birth by our culture....

March 2021

March 20, 2021

Elemental Witchcraft: Virtue and Vice through Astrology, Pop-Culture, Tarot and Love Languages

The concepts of the four elemental essences emerge through the virtues and vices of earthly...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

The Crucible of Witchcraft Authorship: Elemental Witchcraft released Dec. 8, 2021

'Elemental Witchcraft: A Guide to Living A Magickal Life through the Elements' by Heron Michelle...

December 2020

December 18, 2020

Escaping Forward into 2021 with Hermetic Magick

As we bid a cranky farewell to 2020, and say "screw you" to the Age...

August 2020

August 15, 2020

Star Trek Witchcraft and My Prime Directive

I’ve been a huge Star Trek fan since my childhood. On Sundays my mother dragged...

May 2020

May 03, 2020

Worry Jar Binding Spell for a Dark Moon

This spell casting ritual calls upon the aid of planetary Saturn, Mars and Venus to...

April 2020

April 04, 2020

Foundations of Modern Witchcraft: Hermeticism within Wicca

Hermetics provides the bones and substance of a magickal pagan paradigm. So, how did this...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Foundations of Modern Witchcraft: The Kybalion, A Hermetic Philosophy

The ancient Hermetic Philosophies heavily influenced the New Thought Movement during the late 1800's in...

January 2020

January 22, 2020

Foundations of Modern Witchcraft: Hermetic Cosmology

Within the ancient pagan religion of nature known as Hermetic Philosophy, we have a cosmology...

January 14, 2020

Foundations of Modern Witchcraft: Hermetic Philosophy

Hermetic Philosophy forms the warp strings upon which the tapestry of Modern Witchcraft are woven;...

December 2019

December 05, 2019

Foundations of Modern Witchcraft: Hermes Trismegistus

Among witches, the name Hermes Trismegistus should be equally recognizable to us as the names...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Modern Witchcraft and British Traditional Wicca: Two Paths Diverged

I also know my praxis and religious paradigm are very different from both Cunningham's and...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Lubricant or Glue? Mature Idealism for a Dying World

I once held a youthful idealism that thought all pagans were the good guys working...

June 02, 2019

Breaking the Chains of a Magickal Curse

Have you been cursed? It is way less often that outside forces are dogging us...

May 2019

May 17, 2019

The Elephant in the Womb: Calling Out Theocracy Where it Breeds

I'm not usually into dystopian conspiracies, but it looks to me like there is an...

May 06, 2019

Witching Life Priorities and the Harm of Digital Theft

I've been thinking a lot about my priorities lately. I tell myself that this investment...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

Beltane Sabbat Index: Rituals, Crafts and Aphrodisiacs for Witch’s High Spring

For all your Beltane celebration needs, I offer this index of my articles on the...