The Personal IS Political

Blessings Darlings!

We old folks, who remember feminist activism in the ’70’s, remember the mantra “the personal is political” – that is, a lot of what you personally experience is a result of what the Powers That Be allow/encourage.   Your experiences reflect systemic problems – they are not JUST ‘your problems.’  The phrase is just as true today, 40+ years later, as it was then.

To straighten out some of the big things in your life, you end up working against rather than with, ‘the system.’  And even if you kludge some sort of solution, it only helps you – it doesn’t solve the systemic problem.

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Stitches, or How I Used My Health Insurance

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I did NOT plan on needing to USE that health insurance within half an hour of my post on having it going up – but no one PLANS on injuring themselves!

It started off as such a good day – I was … Continue reading…

Reconstructing Early Modern Witchcraft Resources

I draw on a lot of resources for my own practice of witchcraft, and at this point I’ve moved away (for the most part) from looking at how other modern practitioners do things and instead draw on ideas about how historic witchcraft was likely done. I combine that with folk magic practices and the Fairy Faith to create the practical system that I use for my witchcraft.

Here is a list of some of…

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Fairies and the Dead part 2

So I’m recently running into this idea that all fairies are the human dead.Let’s unpack that because its complicated. 
I have written about the intertwining of fairies and the dead before in a blog that was an excerpt from my book ‘Fairies’. The subject is very convoluted and there really is no direct answer to the question “Are the fairies human dead?”. Ultimately we would have to say yes, no,…

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I’m JUST Poor Enough.

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For the first time in rather a while – I have health insurance.  Because the home business side of our income has been suffering and we’ve not been able to pay ourselves, I now qualify for …

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Fairy Priestessing: When Your Spirituality Swallows You Whole

In a lot of the pagan community I see an approach to spirituality that is a bit like a video game: you start and you achieve different levels as you go, until you beat the game and win. This bothers me on a couple levels which I’d like to address before I get into the meat of today’s blog which is going to be about my own experiences of living as a priestess of the Good Folk. Firstly the idea…

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That OTHER “10 daily things witches do list”

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It occurred to me that I should really do a blog on what was in that OTHER ‘what witches do’ list. The items and my brilliant (why doesn’t this have comic sans as a font option) commentary.

Here goes – …

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Mystic South 2018

This past weekend I flew down to attend the second Mystic South conference in Atlanta Georgia. As I understand it the conference is focused on an appreciation of uniquely southern magic and practices but also open to looking at the wider pagan community, and includes a special track for academic presentations. Quite frankly they had me at the idea of academic material because that isn’t something…

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BJ’s “Top 10 things to do as a Witch” list.

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BJ responded to my ‘suggestion’ list with this.  It is, of course, wonderful, because that’s how BJ is.

So, in it’s entirety, and shared with permission:

Top Ten Things to do as a Witch
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Friday the 13th this year is Chaotic Neutral.

Blessings Darlings!

I’ve been rather gobsmacked by all the memes and such that I’ve run into today along the lines of “Friday the 13th is the Witch Day of [Good] Luck!”  Look, folks, this is just …

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