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September 2024

September 22, 2024
Of all the archetypes we're considering, the Warrior may be both the most problematic and...

August 2024

August 01, 2024
The Captain is in the field or on the ship with those he leads, in...

June 2024

June 20, 2024
He does not command, he is not a conqueror. Instead the King is the conduit...

May 2024

May 05, 2024
In this memeplex we can find misandry, a romantic misview of nature, a base rate...
May 01, 2024
The Preacher does not issue orders or set himself above those he speaks to in...

April 2024

April 04, 2024
If some part of your life is in Bad Order and you could use some...

March 2024

March 19, 2024
The Lover we are considering here is not necessarily a romantic or a sexual figure....

February 2024

February 03, 2024
We talked around it not about it the elephant in the room: the corpse in...
February 01, 2024
But unlike the archetypal Magician, who is isolated in study of his art, the Healer...

December 2023

December 21, 2023
The archetypal Magician is the keeper of hidden knowledge, the master of special skills and...
December 20, 2023
We are in the realm of symbolic magic dealing with the dead, and should tread...
December 07, 2023
Mom always said -- and quite likely your mom said it too -- that two...

September 2023

September 28, 2023
It's an old cliche that "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear", but...
September 18, 2023
Autumn is the season of metal, associated with grieving and letting go. It is also...

August 2023

August 02, 2023
So when I saw that someone had set up a "wind phone" at the Starwood...

July 2023

July 07, 2023
And that means that for the best results, the magician must be clear about what...

June 2023

June 12, 2023
Kaczynski was not just any violent revolutionary, overconfident in the rightness of his solutions to...

May 2023

May 29, 2023
The only way to precisely engineer a wood fire is to pelletize the wood, to...
May 11, 2023
Daniel Penny, whether he acted reasonably and killed by accident or recklessly and committed manslaughter,...

March 2023

March 30, 2023
As if to fit that mood, there was trash dumped in my old playground, and...

February 2023

February 10, 2023
How do we eulogize people who were difficult to others and to themselves? And how...
February 04, 2023
But right now I'm tempted to consider whether putting unglamorous photos of dead alcoholics up...

January 2023

January 02, 2023
American society is dis-integrating, becoming disconnected. That's killing people. It's urgent that we find ways...

December 2022

December 20, 2022
It's useless to judge a candle that gets blown out in the wind; my job...

October 2022

October 27, 2022
I am fairly certain that, should my life ever be judged by the gods, these...

September 2022

September 15, 2022
My father is five years dead, and his death was a great blow. But I...
September 06, 2022
Netflix's adaption of Neil Gaiman's Sandman is...okay. Good, but not as excellent as it might...

June 2022

June 23, 2022
"It's what we owe the past. What we owe those who invented speech, writing, mathematics,...

April 2022

April 28, 2022
Be wild. Disrespect convention. Steal ideas, steal fire from the gods, steal the gods themselves....

February 2022

February 22, 2022
I think the first time I encountered the word "techno-pagan" was in the late 1990s,...
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