Anonymous asks: What are your tips for a young person just exploring Wicca/Witchcraft? My best advice? Be wary of advice. Read more
August 26, 2020
Refrigerator Remedies, and Making Time For Magic
August 26, 2020 By Mortellus
One part of her house always felt arcane. A certain mystery surrounded its collection of jars, unctions, ointments, fats and oils of every imaginable kind, tinctures, and leftovers. That’s right. The refrigerator. Read more
August 21, 2020
Dear Mortellus: Venerating Disapproving Ancestors
August 21, 2020 By Mortellus
We’re all on the same playing field in death, so try not to let the perspectives of the living color your interactions with the dead. It’s important, especially in ancestor work, to meet the dead without expectations. Read more
August 13, 2020
Prometheus, Expertise, and Know(ing) Thyself
August 13, 2020 By Mortellus
Ben Franklin said there are three things that are extremely hard. “Steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self,” but Sun Tzu says in The Art of War, “know […] thyself, and in 100 battles you won’t be destroyed.” Read more
August 4, 2020
Ethics and Morality by The (RPG) Book
August 4, 2020 By Mortellus
A personal code is always going to be the sum total of who we are, and where we have been; our values, beliefs, and ethics, all rolled up in a big ol’ morality burrito. Read more
July 29, 2020
Lammas: The (Corn)Bread Holiday
July 29, 2020 By Mortellus
Lammas for me has come to be about my beginnings in life, and where I have ended up. About life and growth, but also about the inevitability of death, reaping, and the harshness of winter looming on the horizon. Read more
July 24, 2020
Community, and The Wiccan Tiffany Problem
July 24, 2020 By Mortellus
Is it just too historically accurate for people to believe Wicca isn’t that old? Why does this make us feel inauthentic? Read more
July 22, 2020
The Demon’s Name is Grief
July 22, 2020 By Mortellus
Some of you may not have identified yet that unease buried in your stomach, but any self respecting occult practitioner knows you must name a monster, if you wish to control it, and that name is grief. Read more
July 17, 2020
Psst… I’m an impostor.
July 17, 2020 By Mortellus
It’s important that I let you in on a secret right away – I don’t belong here. I expect that at any moment someone will realize they’ve made a critical error and allowed a pretender into the inner sanctum as they clutch their BNP pearls (amber and jet?). Read more
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