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January 2020
January 07, 2020
Fifty is a big landmark. And now that I've almost gotten there, in some ways...
January 06, 2020
but I am a magician, a poet in the realm of acts and what I...
December 2019
December 31, 2019
As I considered what I need for this coming year, and what I think we...
December 31, 2019
The year remains New until Imbolc, more or less midway between December's winter solstice and...
December 16, 2019
I've done it every year since, and I'm come to think of it as keeping...
December 16, 2019
At first glance the 1980s action movie Roadhouse seems a world away from the eight-century-old...
December 11, 2019
Magic gives us the power to believe that we, individually, are important. In that, we...
November 2019
November 25, 2019
The 1621 celebration was not identified by anyone as the "First Thanksgiving" until 1841, when...
October 2019
October 30, 2019
Death is the great mystery, the undiscovered country, the unavoidable confrontation with the boundaries of...
October 23, 2019
But as the creepier side of the season reminds us, sometimes unwelcome presences can push...
October 19, 2019
The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means...
October 09, 2019
Imagine that we could hop in our TARDIS and jump back to the Golden Age...
September 2019
September 26, 2019
The social-media-viral cult of personality around Greta Thunberg is a glamour being cast as what...
September 21, 2019
It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a...
September 18, 2019
I share this so that you may know it, if when next you grieve (for...
September 10, 2019
And our society is too much Aresian and too little Athenian. We are too ready...
September 03, 2019
Because getting something done at the last minute, is still getting it done.
August 2019
August 22, 2019
"Invoke often." This simple advice has been offered by Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley...
August 05, 2019
With just a bit of license, I might say that to be a Baltimorean —...
August 04, 2019
"What should we do? We have to do SOMETHING!!!" we yell, in our pain and...
July 2019
July 28, 2019
Magicians seek to alter the consciousness, change the minds, of other people all the time....
July 19, 2019
So it pains me to say this, but it's true: beyond Earth orbit, space is...
July 17, 2019
My inspiration for this year was that the story of the Four Sights could make...
June 2019
June 02, 2019
But my Paganism is very much aligned with these words of Walt Whitman, from the...
May 2019
May 30, 2019
May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth. It seems appropriate to reflect...
May 16, 2019
What is special about propositions is that they are true or false no matter who...
May 04, 2019
The beautiful and terrible (in the sense of intense, formidable, powerful, going back to a...
April 2019
April 24, 2019
Festival season is coming! And I'd like to invite you to two events where I'll...
April 13, 2019
Travel gives you an opportunity to raise the magickal energy, but you have to take...
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