A Word to the Witch
If you step out to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread and wind up in Tijuana with a trunk full of Froot Loops and vintage porn…that was Nimue. Read more
If you step out to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread and wind up in Tijuana with a trunk full of Froot Loops and vintage porn…that was Nimue. Read more
Understand, the Black Heart is not a goal, nor is it automatically conferred with a certain number of box tops. It can come and go. It’s not a state of enlightenment, exactly, though it bears a certain resemblance to some martial arts concepts. It’s an effect. Read more
Today’s Throwback Thursday post discusses another central idea in Anderson Faery. Originally published May 24, 2010, in the Pantheon blog. 1 Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that calld Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. 2 Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. 3 Energy is Eternal Delight – “The Marriage... Read more
Today’s Throwback Thursday post talks about pentacles as they are taught in Anderson Faery. Originally published May 21, 2010 in the Pantheon blog. Therefore on his shining shield was shaped now this knot, royally with red gules upon red gold set, this is the pure pentangle as people of learning have taught. –Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. J.R.R. Tolkien) The points of Iron are these: Sex. Self, Passion, Pride, Power, starting at the top and going clockwise. Consider... Read more
In this week’s Throwback Thursday post, I tell some jokes. Originally published in the Pantheon blog, May 19, 2010. I will take a break from my Feritribe because I was totally inspired by Julie Maldonado’s post to share these with you. You’ll thank me later. I made some of them up, which probably says a lot about me, but some of them I didn’t and if you are one of the people who originated these jokes please let me... Read more
Last year, Elinor Prędota and I, along with Byron Ballard and quite a few other people, participated in the first Pagan academic conference co-sponsored by Cherry Hill Seminary and the University of South Carolina. John Beckett was also in attendance and wrote about his impressions at the time. A book compiled of some of the papers (including mine, titled “Song of the Chattahoochee: On Being a Southern (Pagan) Witch in Atlanta’s Urban Landscape”) is now out. In the introduction by Ronald... Read more
We sometimes speak of “Feri alchemy.” We mean the technique sometimes ritualized as "the water trick" or "the rite of unbinding." The other core ideas and meditations in Feri are all different means of spinning straw into gold. Read more
I love this rendition of "Earth My Body." I love the additional music, I love the video, I really do. I just have one big problem with it, and it's this: "the opening and closing chant is a very old song with an unknown author." No, it isn't ...unless you consider 1987 to be very old. Read more
The number of creative types in Feri is poetically apt and mythologically resonant, but I think it has to do with the focus and concerns of the tradition and what it tends to do to you. Read more
This conception of witch as shaman points to a divergence in modern witchcraft. To some of us, witchcraft is a calling, a state of being, and it is ferociously personal; to others, it is a religion, one that can be practiced casually and taught in classes. If you try to fit into one when you are really looking for the other, you will find yourself disappointed or very confused. Read more
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