Even if a magican, priest(ess) or shaman correctly created something and spirits imbue a talisman, you still have to acclimate to those energies. Even if a system is The Most Awesome System of Spirituality Ever Devised™, it still has to be internalized. There are no shortcuts. Read more
What can we do to stop Elder Flight? What can we do to keep our Traditions from being lost? Or is it too late? Read more
Staying in your power is not about staying in symbolic power, which amounts to being a protagonist in a narrative, whether self-invented or other-constructed. Staying in your power means being able to distinguish between reality and fiction. Read more
This bill isn't really about transgendered people, or what pots they piss in, but it does herald a new civil rights movement. These things tend to flare up over the question of where folks are allowed to sit down. Whether this be about a bus seat, a lunch-counter seat, or a toilet seat, it clearly is a much larger issue of discrimination than the seething ignorantsia (3) within the conservative majority of the South would have you believe. Read more
Learning planetary magic and astrological systems hasn’t come easy to me. So when our channel editor, Jason Mankey, offered up Shakespeare and the Stars for review, I thought maybe this will finally be something I can easily relate to in astrology. Read more
There are other synchronicities, personal, ethical, and spiritual, that pushed me to finally visit my local OTO temple and participate in the Gnostic Mass, and to finally commit to a practical and theological exploration of Thelema. For now, however, the starting point is here, in my realization that the divine spirit, like the Thelemic Hadit—“the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star”—is militant and active in all corners of creation, and that there is no need any longer to subsume all human artistic and religious expressions under the one symbol of a dying and rising god. Read more
The world needs us to show up to the essential work of creating a more sustainable, life-affirming future for each other and our Earth home. What is your personal leadership? How can you become a positive change agent in these turbulent, evolutionary times? Read more
You may know what you think that you want when you make a wish, but the Gods might give you what you need, instead. Read more
Viking Lore makes a pretty clear case; not just for tolerating the existence of others, but for actively learning from them. Welcome to Multiculturalism 101. Read more
The Rev. Melissa Hill tackles issues of white privilege and the fear that modern European polytheism is a breeding ground for right wing ideologies. Read more
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