While I’ve come to accept that sometimes the Pagan community just doesn’t care about something as much as I do, there are times when I find myself screaming “this is important! Why are you not reading this?!” Read more
While I’ve come to accept that sometimes the Pagan community just doesn’t care about something as much as I do, there are times when I find myself screaming “this is important! Why are you not reading this?!” Read more
We’re ten days away from a new decade, so before I do my usual year-end features it seems appropriate to do a retrospective on 2010 – 2019. This is a personal retrospective of the 2010s. It may be too personal, but it’s my story and I want to share it. Read more
Announcing a new on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Building a New Myth: Scientific, Animist, and Polytheist Foundations For the Future.” Registration opens January 2; the class begins January 23 and will run for seven weeks. Here are the details. Read more
The end of one decade is a good time to look forward to the decade ahead of us. This isn’t divination or prophecy so much as it’s projection. This is what I expect the next decade will bring to the Pagan movement. Read more
The Winter Solstice may be humanity’s oldest holy day. It’s a reminder that long nights don’t last forever, and neither do difficult times. Whatever else the Winter Solstice may teach, it teaches us hope and persistence. And you don’t have to be a Pagan to see and feel that. Read more
Adults in our society have very little time that’s truly free. But many of us have a day or two or twelve between the Winter Solstice and the day after New Year’s. Let’s make the most of them. Read more
Unprecedented metaphysical changes. The crumbling of power structures, and extreme efforts by those with power to cling to it. A growing interest in magic and witchcraft, with resulting magical effects. Increased encounters with Otherworldly persons. This is the environment in which we work. Now, what are we going to do about it? Read more
Nothing in the realm of religion and magic can ever be known with certainty. If new experiences or new lines of thinking demonstrate that our beliefs are wrong, we are ethically obligated to change them. But while we hold them, it’s best if we explore them as deeply as we can. Read more
How do we make our Paganism work for us, without grounding it in false or inauthentic narratives? The answer is to ground it in our own first-hand experiences of the Gods, our ancestors, and the land where we are. Read more
Magic and witchcraft in politics is nothing new. What’s new is that it’s all out in the open, which brings the inevitable response from those with different goals and different values. Large numbers of people are involved in open magical conflict. But I don’t know how many of them understand just how complex the battle lines actually are. Read more
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