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So as we find ourselves in a darker Yule than usual, remember that you have...

This spell uses these stagnation-busting powers on a higher level, to free stuck energy. Can't...

This Yuletide season is looking bleak. So what can we do when things suck?

Some will offer you a pre-designed, classical system for doing this. That's fine but my...

Rather than an 1860s style civil war, I foresee something more like the Irish Troubles:...

Even if the Bread and Roses Party itself is never heard from again after this...

But there are reasons that the spiritual traditions that have achieved power in the world...

I know people who call themselves or are initiated as witches and wizards and magicians...

The past few days have been among the worst in my life. I find that...

Yes, the plague is killing thousands! and Yes, the oppressors are brutal! and Yes, the...

The fnords are the cliche phrases and stock tropes that obscure the truth without actually...

This period of change isn't over and will not be for some time. That means...

But on my shopping trips over the past few weeks I've been struck by how...

If we accept the Way of the Fool, we can keep perfect hope even at...

It is Papa Legba (not "the devil") whom we meet at the crossroads. And what...

A bit more than twenty years ago, after my 30th birthday, I went away for...

We might find each of these groups sympathetic. Artists, poets, nature lovers, advocates for alternative...

This image brings to mind the way in which the solid, rational, straight-line world supports...

Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly...

I seldom remember my dreams, but sometimes they are humdingers. From this one came a...

She is the totem of the United States, and if her attributes seem contradictory and...

There is no avoiding the breaking, the cracking, the flaws. But it is up to...

Divine voices work mysteriously

Fifty is a big landmark. And now that I've almost gotten there, in some ways...

but I am a magician, a poet in the realm of acts and what I...

As I considered what I need for this coming year, and what I think we...

The year remains New until Imbolc, more or less midway between December's winter solstice and...

I've done it every year since, and I'm come to think of it as keeping...

At first glance the 1980s action movie Roadhouse seems a world away from the eight-century-old...

Magic gives us the power to believe that we, individually, are important. In that, we...