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January 2024

January 10, 2024
Paganism is impossible to precisely define, but that doesn’t mean it’s anything anybody says it...
January 07, 2024
I’m sick of all the “tough love” on social media. They say “I’m just being...
January 03, 2024
In December 1946, author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis published an essay in Strand Magazine...
January 01, 2024
The reading for 2024 is quite positive, but also quite challenging. This is not a...

December 2023

December 27, 2023
The Top 10 posts of 2023 on Under the Ancient Oaks: divination, a Storm Goddess,...
December 24, 2023
While I’ve come to accept that sometimes the Pagan community just doesn’t care about something...
December 20, 2023
Dark academia and secret societies, free will and fate. Witches, vampires, Tarot, and poison. What...
December 17, 2023
You know that feeling you get on the last day of vacation? You’ve still got...
December 14, 2023
What we thought Paganism would become 10 years ago isn’t happening, and the future of...
December 11, 2023
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the question of how we know...
December 03, 2023
The older I get, the more losses I’m experiencing. Things I thought would last forever,...

November 2023

November 29, 2023
This book is exactly what you would expect from someone who is a witch and...
November 26, 2023
A Christian blogger is promoting “freedom from witchcraft.” I say he has it backwards. Witchcraft...
November 19, 2023
I don’t know what I’m going to do when I’m no longer tied to a...
November 16, 2023
If thoughts of the holidays and their traditions fill you with anxiety and dread, I...
November 12, 2023
For the most part, we can do what witches and Pagans do to whatever degree...
November 06, 2023
Too many people set their cards down because they have no pressing need. Then when...
November 02, 2023
In a magical working at the most recent full moon I received a message that...

October 2023

October 29, 2023
The Fall of the House of Usher is brilliant. It sets Edgar Allan Poe’s stories...
October 22, 2023
We ignore fate at our peril. At the same time, we do ourselves no favors...
October 08, 2023
Livvy Pettijohn will live on in the thoughts and memories and stories of those of...
October 04, 2023
Ten obscure but very good horror movies from the 60s and 70s. Starring Barbara Steele...
October 01, 2023
I think I’m supposed to write something deep and spiritual about the need for seasons...

September 2023

September 27, 2023
An atheist asked why religious people “feel the need to advertise their belief?” with jewelry...
September 20, 2023
Tarot decks can be addictive. Here are five relatively new Tarot decks I find interesting....
September 17, 2023
What do you do when your head tells you there is only the natural world...
September 13, 2023
I encourage you to avoid AI-created spiritual education. It’s not hard to spot, but sometimes...
September 06, 2023
I’m one of the most order-obsessed people I know, but I’m yearning for wildness. Because...

August 2023

August 31, 2023
A Baptist pastor and political scientist says that liberals have won the culture war. I...
August 25, 2023
Donald Trump was entitled to challenge the election results through legal means. He was not...
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