What are you going to do to personally build and expand your OWN practice, hone your skills as a Witch, and exercise your will? Don't be sheep. Read more
What are you going to do to personally build and expand your OWN practice, hone your skills as a Witch, and exercise your will? Don't be sheep. Read more
What you say? I did two large festivals back to back? PantheaCon AND ConVocation? Why yes, yes I did. And I survived! How? Why! In recent years, in an effort to expand my audience and connections, I have been adding what I call “risk” events to my travel schedule. The risk refers to spending money to possibly make money and grow my network. As an independent artist married to an independent musician, there’s often not a lot of financial cushion or... Read more
I’m home! And I have about a dozen blog posts all angling to get out of my brain at the same time. I figured the safest thing to do is to release them chronologically. So first up is PantheaCon! This was my 4th consecutive P-Con – I had previously attended from 2002-2006 when I still lived in the Bay Area, and presented 2003-2005 (that I can remember). Each year, I try to sculpt my experience so it’s less stressful, that... Read more
I’ll be doing a PantheaCon write-up as soon as I can – but essentially I just got home late yesterday evening and I turn around and fly out at the crack(arse) of dawn Thursday morning for Detroit. Convocation looks like it will be an absolute vacation compared to the insane schedule I ran at P-Con. It’s my first time going to Convocation, and I’m looking forward to it. I’ve got a large set-up in the Art Show, so that... Read more
And so it begins… I am getting ready to head down to PantheaCon in San Jose, CA – where I will be vending, performing, presenting – and hopefully getting some additional fun socializing in! So if you too are also heading to PantheaCon and you’d like to come by and say hi, here’s where I’ll be: VENDING: Most of the time from Friday through Monday, I’ll be chained down I can be found at my booth, Owlkeyme Arts – which... Read more
When asked “what is cursing?” most people will reply with one of the two following answers: 1) The use of vulgar or impolite language. 2) The throwing off of “negative” energy and/or the use of sympathetic magick to manipulate, particularly in the form of a poppet, witch bottle, or similar system. Under the right circumstances, I can say I’m a fan of both. But in actual practice, I tend to be somewhere in between – what I call “the elegant curse.” The... Read more
As I was falling asleep late last night, trying to win back space on the bed from 3 gravity-heavy cats, a strange idea filtered into my head. In that space between waking and dreaming, it made so much sense. Then it proceeded to permeate my dreams all the way until morning – as me working on the blog post in each dream. (Alas it was not already on my computer when I awoke.) When I got up this morning, the idea... Read more
We are interrupting your normal blog feed to give you a head’s up about some developments regarding the Power Sigil and #WeAreAradia. So many people asked me about having the Power Sigil and #WeAreAradia art as shirts, stickers, and patches that I decided to add 12 more things to my workload to get done before PantheaCon and make it happen. To maintain sanity, for the first run will be two styles of shirts (regular tee’s and flowy opaque tanks), patches... Read more
I have a blessing or gift. It’s also somewhat of a curse, depending on how you look at it. It is my ability to maintain calm in the midst of chaos. I should note that you could define chaos in both negative and positive connotations here. Everyone’s super excited about things? I am calm and absorbing it. Shit’s hitting the fan? There I am, scoping things out, gathering information, formulating plans. It’s a curse in the sense that it sometimes... Read more
Getting back to our series on looking at the essence of being a Witch series….refer back to Part I, Part II, and Part III here if you haven’t read them yet… The earliest witches were those tapped into directly working with the realm of spirits. If we consider the possibilities hidden within cave paintings around the world, we’ve been around a long, long time. Be it gut instinct or the result of too many novels about prehistoric humanity, I get the feeling that even... Read more
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