Arranged by month, Hedgewitch Book of Days by Mandy Mitchell is a wonderful hodge-podge of recipes, spells, and rituals that can easily be incorporated into everyday life. Read more
Arranged by month, Hedgewitch Book of Days by Mandy Mitchell is a wonderful hodge-podge of recipes, spells, and rituals that can easily be incorporated into everyday life. Read more
The idea that one should seek to distance oneself from the world is expressly refuted in the mythology around the Siddhartha's enlightenment. This was supposedly the last temptation that Mara, the tempter demon, the Lord of Illusion, offered. Read more
#BlackLivesMatter isn't just a statement of fact -- it should be a mantra that we all recite, loudly and often, and mean it. Read more
The new year is upon us. This is the time of resolutions and promises to self often forgotten by February. But what if the commitment to self was more empowered, and leaned into the invitation of the wholeness that is holy, rather than being an obligation? For me, holiness and the sacred is found in Daily Practice. Read more
Merry Christmas! The day in which we eat copious amounts of Chinese food, go to the movies, and take sixteen hour overtime shifts for utterly stupendous amounts of money! Best...Holiday...Ever! Read more
Positive thinking won't solve all your problems. In fact, it won't solve any of them. What it teaches you to do is look at your problems differently. Read more
I’ve realized that, even as the darkness pushes me inside myself, if I take the time to properly honor the season, I can do better than just survive in winter; I can begin to heal, to rest and restore, in preparation for a thriving new year. Read more
Sophisticated cynics know that it’s a bunch of bunk, of course. There is no jolly old elf at the North Pole. There is no magic sleigh, no one coming down the chimney, and your parents are going to eat those cookies. And yet…and yet…somehow, the gifts still end up under the tree. Read more
For those of us without supportive family, the holiday season can be the coldest time of the year, when Christmas-as-stereotype most starkly contrasts with reality, reminding us just how Other we really are. Read more
I have no faith in a child who would become a prophet that empowered patriarchy, but I do take comfort in love: that we are all born into this Love, the currency of peace. Read more
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