My World(view)
I’ve got some new people joining me on various social platforms, so it seems like a good time to be explicit about how I am and act within the world, and to the extent that I can control. A Statement of My World View
Astrology-Based Scheduling
I’m not a professional astrologer, but I’ve been working with (and teaching) this fascinating system for decades. One area it can be used for is finding the best time for a surgery or medical procedure, because there are a number of “rules.” (Rules is in quotes because we don’t always get to choose the time […]
Re-Solving
In just a few days most people will celebrate a new year. Some large number of people will also make promises about things they will do to make changes in their life. I am not one of them.
Titles and Shifting Perspectives
I am more than a little wary of people who decide how things are and never revisit those decisions.
Watershed
I started this post in late October, long before the recent US election, although what you will read has been revised. Nonetheless, apparently I was prescient.
A Magickal Autumn Brew
Autumn is such a lovely time to return our focus to our home. There is a reason so many of us have a fall cleaning time, mirroring the spring clean. We know we’re about to spend many months bundled up and away from the harsh weather outdoors. Its a reflection of the harvest time we […]
Birthday Tarot Reading 2024
Each year I do a tarot reading to accompany my annual review and goal setting and ask what the coming year will bring.
Annual Review 2024
Each year at my birthday I review the previous year, celebrate my accomplishments, and set goals for the coming year. (Here’s my post from last year.) Sometimes I adjust those goals a bit at the witches’ new year (Samhain). Over the years I’ve learned to set fewer and smaller goals to allow for new opportunities […]
Storms are Just Weather
This post is a continuation from my last post, Storms Don’t Have to Be a Crisis where I talked about the inevitability of storms within a magickal group.
Storms Don’t Have to Be a Crisis
In classic sociology, small groups follow a consistent pattern of forming-storming-norming-performing and finally, adjourning [1] and most, if not all, magickal groups fall into this pattern as well. For the group leader, trying to navigate your group through the storms can feel like standing in the middle of a field in a lightning storm—shocking, dangerous, […]