A little while ago, I described an experience I had in terms of a “crisis of faith.” Of course, this is a misnomer, because I’m pagan, and “faith” isn’t central to my religion. But I was having an issue because of my understanding of how devotion should work and how that defined my relationship to […]
Study Course – WARRIOR HISTORY, LEGEND, MIND AND BODY FOR THE CELTIC POLYTHEIST
This is a study course I created for a short lived study program that will probably never see the light of day. Perhaps someone reading might want to try it out.
Basics and Assumptions
I’ve written some stuff on wards and energy work. This is an area that I have done a bit of work in, and am very comfortable pontificating on. I saw this post on Tumblr, and it gave me pause. What struck me wasn’t so much the technique describe so much as the assumptions that were […]
Leaving the Fold
Teo Bishop, author at Bishop in the Grove and occasionally at the Wild Hunt, has had a profound spiritual revelation. This year at Samhain I’m coming to terms with the realization that Paganism, itself, does not serve me in the way that I thought it did. Stranger even, I’m feeling pulled back to the Episcopal […]
What is Service?
I’ve talked a couple times now about the idea of service and I’ve realized that maybe I need to clarify what I mean by that. Most people who honor the Gods and spirits* do so as the equivalent of what might be called laymen: someone(…)
Why None of Us are Special Snowflakes
This blog should probably have a blogging while ill warning label. So you’ve been warned. 
There’s an expression in modern pagan communities: special snowflake. It’s used for people who are very vocal about …
Relating to Deities
What kind of relationship do you have with your gods? Erin provides an interesting discourse on our relationships to deities. The gist of a lot of it echoes my essay on selecting a patron deity to some respect: figure out what you’re looking for and try to make contact with them. Play nice and see […]
I call bullshit, it’s none of your business
You know what’s sad, old and just a flaming bowl of hypocritical?
The number of pagans and pagan blogs that want to demonize other pagans who’s paths have evolved and changed and sent them back to Christianity.
Dream Journal: 2013-11-09.01
Weaver is summoned to meet and greet the new king. But the king only has eyes for breasts and bling. Can Weaver keep her cool and complete her mission? Later she finds herself stuck in a nuclear reactor complex with a psychopath and the man hunting him. Leaving that, she heads home and finds there are more than potholes on the freeway. Some should be placed quickly out of mind.
4,628 words.
Left Hand, Right Hand
I hear a lot of equivocating about the “Right-Hand” versus the “Left-Hand” paths in the metaphysical community. This is very deeply rooted in Occidental occultism, and very much tied to the white/black magic dichotomy. And of course, we all know that the Right-Hand path is better, and that White Magick is better, right? After all, […]