March 27, 2024

Impatience leads to failure, failure leads to discouragement, and discouragement leads to abandoning spiritual practices that we know are meaningful and helpful. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Read more

March 24, 2024

Conservatives like to claim that “our rights come from God, not from government!” But that’s a false dichotomy. Our rights come from Nature. Our job is to recognize them, to encode them into our laws, and to insure that everyone can enjoy them. Read more

March 20, 2024

Historian Francis Young says that while ritual is clearly important to us as humans, we don’t understand it all that well, and its practice has diminished since the latter part of the 20th century. He’s right, but we will always create rituals that are meaningful and helpful to us. As Pagans, we have a head start on that. We’re Pagans – we do ritual. Read more

March 17, 2024

Some problems can’t be fixed. Sometimes no amount of effort, no amount of money, no amount of influence can fix a problem. Sometimes all you can do is to make it through the day. Sometimes all you can do is survive and advance. Read more

March 10, 2024

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is as relevant today as it was when she first wrote it. Treat people monstrously and they will become monsters. Treat people monstrously and you will become a monster yourself. Read more

March 6, 2024

There are serious ethical issues with the way AI plagiarizes art and with how some companies use AI to keep from paying artists. This isn’t that conversation. This is something simpler, more basic, more personal. I’m already tired of AI art. Read more

March 3, 2024

Too many people – many of whom call themselves witches – are unable to recognize when their magic works. They never experience the thrill of a successful spell, they’re unable to learn from their mistakes and from their successes, and they never build the confidence they need to work magic effectively when they have an urgent need. Read more

February 25, 2024

First they came for abortion. Then they came for IVF. They’ll keep coming for more and more rights until they’re stopped. The Alabama IVF case is not the ruling of a court in a constitutional republic. It’s the ruling of a theocracy. Read more

February 21, 2024

The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware of it, but the desire grows over time. These are five practices that have worked for me, and I’m confident they’ll work for you too. Read more

February 18, 2024

In 1901, 19 year old Mary MacLane wrote about her love for her “anemone lady” and her frustration with living in a small Western town where opportunities were few and opportunities for women were fewer. She wrote “oh, kind Devil, deliver me from it!” Read more


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