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January 2023

January 10, 2023
Announcing a new on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Tarot For Divination” begins January...
January 08, 2023
I fault no one for doing what they need to do to take care of...
January 04, 2023
Finding and following this path was critically important to my spiritual growth and depth, and...
January 01, 2023
2023 is not going to be 2020 Part IV. It brings different challenges and new...

December 2022

December 29, 2022
The Top 10 posts of 2022 on Under the Ancient Oaks: Loki’s three messages for...
December 26, 2022
While I’ve come to accept that sometimes the Pagan community just doesn’t care about something...
December 21, 2022
When someone – or Someone – is gracious to us, the appropriate response is gratitude....
December 18, 2022
The experiences of our old religions leave a mark, sometimes metaphorically and sometimes spiritually. Those...
December 14, 2022
The Winter Solstice is more than a single point in time. It’s a season, one...
December 11, 2022
It’s getting close to the fine old tradition of making New Year’s resolutions – followed...
December 07, 2022
Spiritual and mystical experiences happen in their own time – they cannot be programmed or...
December 04, 2022
The last full moon of the year is this coming Wednesday, December 7. If you...

November 2022

November 30, 2022
“Wednesday” isn’t “The Addams Family” – if you expect “all together ooky” you’re going to...
November 27, 2022
Does Apollo care about me? I’ve never poured the first offering for Him, never called...
November 22, 2022
Some Christians insist that the Earth is unique and the only place where “intelligent” life...
November 20, 2022
Our magic works some of the time – why doesn’t it work all the time?...
November 16, 2022
I’m not going to tell you where I plan to move – the right place...
November 13, 2022
Here’s a lighthearted look some of the things people believe in – or not –...
November 06, 2022
What do you do when you find yourself clinging to a familiarity that has become...
November 02, 2022
Brendan Myers’ new book is the philosophy of climate change: the thinking that got us...

October 2022

October 30, 2022
My trip to Yosemite National Part was as much a pilgrimage as my trips to...
October 19, 2022
In the context of a theologically diverse audience, and with the coming harvest weighing heavily...
October 16, 2022
Voltaire said “common sense is not so common.” But another problem with common sense is...
October 12, 2022
A new report from Pew says that in 50 years, the religiously unaffiliated may outnumber...
October 09, 2022
There have been over 200 portrayals of Dracula in movies and TV. I don’t know...
October 05, 2022
I can’t tell you everything is going to be OK, because it’s not. But we...
October 02, 2022
Christian nationalism combines the worst of Christian fundamentalism with the worst of right-wing politics. It...

September 2022

September 28, 2022
A Mormon news site published a series of essays from leaders of religiously affiliated colleges...
September 25, 2022
Building relationships with your local nature spirits isn’t complicated, but neither is it easy. It...
September 21, 2022
Today we have four questions: on worship, practice in difficult situations, spirits from pop culture,...
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