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October 29, 2018
On Self-Preservation, Pragmatism, Politics, and Power
The US midterm elections, possibly the most important elections any of us have ever lived...
October 26, 2018
Pruning Your Roots, or, Coping with Samhain When Your Ancestors Suck
How do we honor our ancestors at Samhain if our ancestors were terrible people?
October 19, 2018
Points of the Triangle: The Victim, the Persecutor, and the Rescuer
Let's dig a little deeper into how the dynamics of Karpman's drama triangle manifest in...
September 2018
September 06, 2018
Movie Review: “Hereditary” (directed by Ari Aster, 2018)
"Hereditary" is an extraordinarily well-made, emotionally affecting film with incredible performances, and I feel deeply...
August 2018
August 14, 2018
Scribing the Triangle: Some Thoughts on Power Dynamics in Our Communities
If we're honest with ourselves, about ourselves, I think we'll find is that a lot...
August 13, 2018
Banishing the Boogeyman of Cultural Marxism, and Other Pastimes
Everyone's entitled to their own brand of ignorance and damnfoolishness... up to a point. For...
August 03, 2018
Choosing Who We Are: Boundaries and Inclusivity in Our Communities
The trouble is, radical inclusivity makes it really difficult to develop or enforce shared social...
July 2018
July 27, 2018
Washing the Clay Feet of Broken Idols: Confronting Paganism’s TERF Problem
TERFs are of a piece with the alt-right, from their reliance on pseudo-science to their...
July 23, 2018
Book Review: “Gods and Goddesses: The Rise of Divine Mythologies” by Gabiann Marin
This is a delightful little book, one clearly aimed at younger readers new to mythology,...
July 12, 2018
On the Necessary, Ineluctable Otherness of Witchcraft
Is witchcraft a set of beliefs? A set of practices? Or is it something else...
July 10, 2018
The Agenda I’m Advancing: Some Thoughts on Tolerance, Bigotry, and Discourse
We all have agendas, because we all have worlds in which we want to live,...
June 2018
June 26, 2018
The Long Haul: Managing the Everyday Magic of Resistance
You have the right and the responsibility to say, "This is what I'm working on,...
June 21, 2018
A World Turned Upside Down: On Politics, Power, Gods, Judgment, and History
I can tell someone why they should care, but I can't make them care. At...
June 14, 2018
An Alchemy of Grief: On Sitting with Death and What Comes After
How many of us in 21st century America have spent time with the dying, held...
June 01, 2018
#FollowFriday: Shannon Barber, Michael Lux, and Anthony Rella
I come away from their writing feeling like I've just had my brain sand-blasted and...
May 2018
May 30, 2018
A Handle on My Cup: Some Thoughts about Labels and Identity
In the wild, wild world of Paganism, polytheism, and magical practice, we spend an awful...
May 24, 2018
An Alignment of Belief and Praxis
Even as we invoke the land, we contribute to its destruction.
May 21, 2018
Somewhere I Don’t Belong: Intruding on Paradise, and Other Lessons from Hawai’i
I was welcome to visit, respectfully, and to contribute to the local economy, especially with...
May 19, 2018
A Green and Pleasant Land: On Belonging, Spirits, and Place
For literally the first time in my life, I felt seen and known by the...
May 16, 2018
A Presence Beneath Our Feet: An Anecdote on Communing with the Mountain
I remember my promise to the mountain, and I am reminded that the spirits of...
May 11, 2018
On the Perils and Necessity of Listening to the Land
It might take a while, but sooner or later, you should get a response... and...
May 09, 2018
Communing with the Land in the Age of the Slow Collapse
Stepping away from the slow collapse into dystopia and ecological suicide may not avert disaster,...
May 02, 2018
Snapshots and Sketches: A Rueful Panegyric for “The Community”
Maybe there never was a "community" after all, just an assumption of universality papering over...
April 2018
April 26, 2018
Coloring Outside the Lines: Troubling Gender and the Myth of Universality
The assumption of universality is harmful, not only to the outliers I mentioned above, but...
April 18, 2018
Beltane, as Viewed from Outside the Maypole Dance
I wondered how many people were here, taking part in a glorification and valorization of...
April 13, 2018
Marks of the Witch: The Bend, the Need, and the Will
It's not necessary to be born a witch or to be made one by someone...
April 11, 2018
Book Review: “Becoming Dangerous” (ed. Katie West and Jasmine Elliott)
Hello, beautiful creatures. My mailbox, inbox, and shopping cart have been insidiously delightful places of...
April 06, 2018
#FollowFriday: Scarlet Magdalene, Brandy Williams, and Laura Tempest Zakroff
These are some of the sharpest, wisest, best-educated folks writing about magic right now, and...
April 04, 2018
Bedroom Temples and Broom Closets: On Praxis, Space, and Community
I enjoy group rituals and Pagan and polytheist conferences, but at the end of the...
March 2018
March 30, 2018
The Grail Question: An Annoyingly Useful Discernment Tool
Rather than simply accepting things as they are because we don't want to "rock the...
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