A recent discussion on social media has motivated me to start a small series which I am going to call ‘fairy facts’ which will offer a brief overview of specific types of beings often labelled as fairies or within the wider purview of the subject. This will not be an in-depth full article – I have already written a book, A New Dictionary of Fairies, that deep dives into various fairies and…
Three Book Reviews: Folklore 101, Fairytale 101, Sex Education 101
Today I wanted to do a combined review of three books by the same author, dr Jeana Jorgensen, because while the topics vary the wider purpose of each book is the same, to offer a solid basic introduction to a complicated topic. This goal is admirable and one I share myself, because I think that its important to have material that can bridge the gap between layperson and academic, and can offer a…
My Published Work to Date 2023
This year’s updated list of all my published work. 2023 may best be described as the year of the magazine articles, but I did squeeze some other things in as well.
Bibliography
Articles
“Healing
Ritual for the Ocean Waters”, Circle Magazine issue 109 summer 2011
“A
Gaelic View of Samhain”, Celtic Guide, vol. 1 issue 10 Oct. 2012
“Celebrating…
Christmas Traditions, Paganism, and Some History
Every year I see social media absolutely flooded with terrible misinformation about the ‘pagan’ origins of several Christmas traditions. I wrote about this in 2015, covering some of the main claims at the time but that was 8 years ago and its worth revisiting this one. There is a driving determination to claim that Christians stole absolutely everything from pagans which I think we need to…
Review: Celtic Goddesses, Witches, and Queens Oracle
I have always had a weakness for tarot and oracle decks because I love to see the different artistic interpretations applied to each card. But, as anyone who is interested in them knows, the market has become really glutted with decks over the last few years, to a degree that its hard to maintain any excitement for them (at least for me). There are a few exceptions to that though and this deck…
Same Shit, Different Pagan Year.
Blessings, Darlings!
There might be lots of typos tonight – new computer, not yet the best ergonomic set up, new keyboard. Anyway –
I’m in the midst of a very busy week of Samhain work here. Starting with ritual Samhain Eve, starting daily work with the Planetary Powers on their appropriate days and during the appropriate Planetary Hours, done one major Tarot reading for the coming year and have 4 more to do, doing Jason Miller’s Hallows of Hekate ritual (got that done today), etc, all leading to the closing on November 7. Continue reading…
Book review: Bogowie
Doing things a little different today, a book review of a subject I actually don’t know much about. I thought it would be fun to dig into a subject that’s new to me so today we’re going to be talking about T. D. Kokoszka’s book ‘Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe’s Ancient Gods’. This one is out through my publisher Moon Books.Bogowie is a fascinating dive into Slavic paganism from an academic…
Fairy Folklore in Coraline
In 2021 I had started a series of posts examining fairy folklore found in popular movies and shows. I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from that but wanted to return to it with a look at Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (the movie, not the book). Obviously I am not trying to argue here that the author’s intention was to frame the story this way, although it may well have been, but what I want to do here is to…
Disorderly Conduct
Blessings Darlings!
As I’ve mentioned before – I am where organization goes to die. For example – today my NEW journal disappeared. Can’t find the damn thing anywhere. It’s amazing how fast this happened.
So when I tell you that the goal I set for this month … Continue reading…
Is there an echo in here?
Blessings, Darlings!
I don’t usually invest my blogging time on religions other than my own, but I DO often invest it in rants, so I guess what follows is going to still be on-brand.
This is inspired by a Facebook post by an ex coworker and now Facebook ex-friend. He posted that humans are not animals. As one would expect, I took issue with this idea. Continue reading…