Some of us have found great meaning in the service of the Gods. If you cannot do the same, I encourage you to make Them your strange bedfellows. Read more
Some of us have found great meaning in the service of the Gods. If you cannot do the same, I encourage you to make Them your strange bedfellows. Read more
Mercury goes retrograde tomorrow morning will remain retrograde until January 8. It doesn’t mean gremlins invade your computer and rewrite your e-mails, but it does mean communication will be more difficult than usual. My experiences with Mercury retrograde illustrate how magic doesn’t control anything but it influences everything. Read more
I’m hearing a lot of “why isn’t this done yet?” in my divination and oracular work. The Gods may have infinite life, but They do not have infinite patience. Read more
Thoughts on the Ghost Ship fire tragedy, public funding for the arts, fake news, book news (that’s real!), and the return of the Cernunnos Ritual. Read more
The many traditions of the Winter Solstice encourage us to light candles and make merry to mark the rebirth of the Sun and the promise of Spring. But if the busyness of the holiday season and concerns over the future make it hard to celebrate, perhaps we need a different approach to this most ancient holy day. Read more
There is no shame in failure. There is plenty of shame in repeated, obstinate failure. If you failed an ordeal think long and hard about why you asked for initiation in the first place. Do you need to find another path? Or do you need to ask again for initiation? Read more
Mystical experiences are found in every religion and are often spontaneous. Most people ignore them or rationalize them away, but for those of us who understand and appreciate them, they can be the deepest, most meaningful experiences in our lives. Read more
We must be careful to avoid bringing baggage from a previous religion into our polytheism, and to avoid assuming we are the primary interests of the Gods. But the Gods are mighty and virtuous beings, and love is perhaps the greatest of virtues. Read more
Go into a bookstore and you’ll see many different maps that show many different routes to many different places. But when it comes to ecstatic and oracular practices, most of us are working off the map. Read more
Meditating when your house is on fire is a poor job of prioritization. But oppressive governments aren’t the only ones who like to turn a state of emergency into the new normal. If we aren’t careful, most of us will do it in our own lives. Read more
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