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June 2019

June 01, 2019
Finally, I have crossed the milestone of a thousand days of uninterrupted daily practice. Just...

May 2019

May 04, 2019
You never know what people have been through. And you never know what you are...

April 2019

April 27, 2019
In many ways, we live in civilized times. Spiritually, however, the world is very much...
April 21, 2019
Once in a while, we need to remind ourselves that there is a real world...
April 14, 2019
Here is a simple practice to ground and reconnect with yourself.
April 07, 2019
What is patience, and how can we cultivate it? For some of us it comes...

March 2019

March 23, 2019
I went through the same struggles as as everyone else when I started down this...
March 17, 2019
Religion and politics will forever inform each other, but that does not make them the...
March 10, 2019
Three virtues define the practitioner's power to effect change in the world. Virtue is the...
March 03, 2019
To find our own Great Work, and the perform it, is the highest calling. To...

February 2019

February 24, 2019
"With great power comes great responsibility" always seemed like wishful thinking. But, as our power...
February 09, 2019
Long a mainstay of Western alchemy, the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus holds a path...
February 02, 2019
Waterfalls are places of spiritual power. They provide not just a sense of wonder, but...

January 2019

January 12, 2019
When it comes to learning magic, divination is both one of the most accessible and...
January 05, 2019
Pagans rarely talk about the day-to-day of the magical world. In the world of social...

December 2018

December 15, 2018
Anyone can slip free of their bonds. The challenge is to learn how to live...
December 02, 2018
Skill is the way we take knowledge and apply it into the world to create...

November 2018

November 17, 2018
Here in America, the holiday of Thanksgiving is nearly upon us. It is the time...
November 10, 2018
We are living through an era of rapid change and social dislocation. Daily practice creates a...
November 03, 2018
Secrets and the occult go hand-in-hand. While anyone can benefit from some spiritual cultivation, students...

October 2018

October 20, 2018
The Wheel reflects the yearly, monthly, and daily cycles of life. These are the cycles...
October 13, 2018
We spend most days negotiating who we are. This is the season for revealing who...
October 06, 2018
Being an animist only begins with greeting trees. Such practices provide a deeper understanding of...

September 2018

September 22, 2018
Achieving inner silence is not only possible, it already exists inside us. Silence is not...
September 15, 2018
Only three things matter in the path of the priest: vocation, vocation, vocation. If faith...
September 08, 2018
After two solid years of daily practice, I have good news. Like so many other...
September 02, 2018
The human soul is not some abstract idea locked away from reality. It is our...

August 2018

August 25, 2018
Without a deeper understanding of identity, our daily conflicts are no more than a we-said...
August 11, 2018
Abandoning the known and pursuing the real is frightening, risky, and, at the end of...

July 2018

July 28, 2018
Maybe, like me, you were raised to always look to the future. The perfect life...
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