Spirit Work

A Look at the Salem Summer Symposium

As many of you know, thanks to Jason Mankey’s post on upcoming festivals, there are many amazing opportunities to attend pagan events...

Cathedral of the Woods: the Ancient Magic of the Redwoods

The redwoods sang to me the first time I saw them. I couldn’t have been more than eight or nine, looking over a book of photographs when...

Amici Mortem: Transforming Our Cultural Experiences with Death

Amici Mortem (Friends of Death) is an emerging interdisciplinary alliance of healers, ritualists, artists, activists and writers working...

Rekindling your Hearth & Home for Imbolc

Every year around this time is when I start to go a little stir-crazy. The below zero temperatures, constant snow and slush of New...

Reading the Bones & Developing Your Own System

A few years ago, I was challenged to learn a divination system that I had never dabbled in before. Having practiced for most of my life I...

Choosing Witchcraft & Walking a Path of Sovereignty

Witchcraft is a tricky thing. Most of us who follow the path of witchcraft would agree that it was less of a choice and more that the...

Depression & Witchcraft: Healing the Unexpected Shadow

I went into this year knowing that it would be a hard year of witchcraft. I was going into an intensive year of shadow work at the Temple...

Are We Becoming Distracted by the Gods?

Credit: Mohamed Nohassi | CC0 Creative Commons A friend and I were talking recently about how we individually experience the Gods. We...

Missed Call From Your Local Spirits

Something that has always struck me as particularly odd about the pagan community is the fascination with the spirits of far off places...