Announcing a new 8-week on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Unpacking Your Religious Baggage So You Can Live A Magical Life” begins on September 4 and registration is now open. Details are in Module 0 on the Courses page. Read more
Announcing a new 8-week on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Unpacking Your Religious Baggage So You Can Live A Magical Life” begins on September 4 and registration is now open. Details are in Module 0 on the Courses page. Read more
Whether we are deconstructing an old religion or working to recover from toxic religion, it’s important to make sure what we believe is something that’s meaningful and helpful to us and not what we were told we had to believe. Read more
Acting with a plan is far more likely to be successful than acting without a plan, and plans made using clear and complete information are far more likely to be successful than plans make up on the fly. Read more
As part of my Sigil Magic workshop at Mystic South, I created a sigil to get home safely on Sunday night. Did it work? Did I get home because of magic? Here’s what I know for sure: I got what I wanted on a day when a lot of people who were flying didn’t. Read more
The people I talked to at Mystic South were frustrated, fearful, and angry. But they were still there, trying to figure out their place in this unwelcoming world. However uneasy they may have felt, they were still moving toward The Star. Read more
The story of how our Ritual of Resistance and Alliance came to be at this year’s Mystic South conference, and what it may mean for us going forward. Read more
Mystic South 2025: new rooms, same great conference. Dark Goddesses and cord cutting, sigil magic and the Ritual of Resistance and Alliance, and the spiritual presence of Morgan Daimler even though they weren’t there. Read more
A recent Tarot reading was overwhelmingly positive… except for the Wheel of Fortune, which warned that I’m overlooking random chance, some low probability event that could pop up out of nowhere and throw a wrench into my plans. And now I know to look out for that. Read more
If some AI conversations strongly resemble conversations that come through Ouija or Tarot or direct communication with spirits, the simplest explanation is that some spirits have picked up AI as yet another tool with which to communicate with humans – for good and for ill. Read more
The Southern Baptist Convention is condemning “willful childlessness which contributes to a declining fertility rate.” How arrogant. How presumptive. How offensive. The choice to have children or not must always remain with the individual and never with the church or the state. Read more
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