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February 2016

February 09, 2016
P-Con is a roiling, bustling, boisterous, intensely earnest and wholly magical temporary village

January 2016

January 28, 2016
Outside of initiatory oaths and our personal vows to each other, these pledges are the...
January 22, 2016
Rituals can be wonderfully complicated, requiring tools and incantations and over the top locations and...
January 20, 2016
We speak out loud as if the Old Year was just a few hundred yards...
January 11, 2016
A life dedicated to art and beauty and exploring the ugliness and reinvention when convention...

December 2015

December 31, 2015
We said goodbye to some loved ones and made new friends and cultivated community and...
December 16, 2015
Okay, okay! We get it. Christmas is all about celebrating the birth Christ and what...
December 10, 2015
I have work to do in this world. I have words to write. I have...
December 01, 2015
I tell stories about workshops and rituals and WitchCamps and festivals and that one time...

October 2015

October 27, 2015
It’s a time to pull out everything Samhain and Halloween related. Our house is always...
October 06, 2015
A spectacular gift to be in the presence of a thousand Pagans, witches and seekers...
October 02, 2015
Our ancestors have been as much rowdy as gentile, artistic as bawdy. If we were...

September 2015

September 16, 2015
And here’s the thing about Mabon - We’re not all that concerned with what the...
September 01, 2015
I find the company of witches to be a place where I can compost what...

August 2015

August 27, 2015
Community showed up and offered to help in whatever ways they could. We are an...
August 20, 2015
Community is a place where I can go for support. Community is real people that...
August 05, 2015
There are many gods. The gods are real. Let’s get to work. These sentiments were...

July 2015

July 28, 2015
Note: This article was originally published Lammas of 2014 on Gwion's website, however, it describes...
July 27, 2015
Lammas may reach back into Pagan European Harvest rituals and clearly the word “Lughnasadh” has...
July 22, 2015
Picture this – A grove, deep in the woods, lit by a raging bonfire. The...
July 13, 2015
I just spent a week in the redwoods with more than one hundred witches. We...
July 08, 2015
By and large, the Pagan community we’ve come to know, is willing to have frank...

June 2015

June 18, 2015
A Witchcamp is a retreat unlike any other. There are plenty of Pagan gatherings, conventions,...
June 15, 2015
Summer Solstice celebrations often coincide with Father’s day and although neither of us care much...

May 2015

May 28, 2015
Sex. Pride, Self, Power and Passion - Look at the myths from practically any culture...
May 01, 2015
Beltane; the birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, the flowers are blooming, it seems...

April 2015

April 07, 2015
Through the magic of modern technology, Phoenix and I have been co-writing this piece on...

March 2015

March 24, 2015
One of us is the most beautiful of social butterflies. The other is not. The...
March 10, 2015
You like strawberry cheesecake.They like strawberry cheesecake. They think Spring is the coolest time of year and...

February 2015

February 24, 2015
Have you ever come back from a vacation or a spiritual retreat and had the...
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