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People talk about the ocean being beautiful, and they go there and play in the waves like it’s just random, ordinary part of their world. But I’m here like “Yes, it’s beautiful, the same way a dying star is beautiful. Or the way a meteor wiping out all humanity would be beautiful. The ocean is great and terrible and monstrous in its beauty. The ( Read more... )

A little tired, but I just wanted to note that tonight I did a "dance around a candle flame" ritual tonight, making this the first ritual I'd done in a very long time. Doing rituals in the old apartment was nearly impossible; the confined space of two people trying to fit into a space that was barely big enough for one, my roommate's unpredictable ( Read more... )

Another Quora.com answer I gave that I feel is worth repeating here ( Read more... )

Belief: "God has a plan!" (Picturing this big, sprawling, intricate plan.)

Likely truth: The Goddess Eris gets up, spins a great enormous wheel of fortune, chanting, "Wheel of Chaos, spin spin spin, what kind of trouble will we be in ( Read more... )

"What To Do When The Power of Positive Thinking Fails ( Read more... )

My roommate gave me a Happy Holidays card and I was filling out one for her, when I had the sudden thought of "I'm annoyed that there aren't really any uniquely pagan holiday things thanks to Christians stealing our holiday and calling it Christmas." So I came up with something for us pagans and neo-pagans: the Yule Dragon ( Read more... )

Harry Potter and the Trouble With Neurotypicals book 3 (Aspie Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban), chapter 4 is published ( Read more... )

On Facebook, I got into a discussion on thunderstorms, and I mentioned that I've never seen a thunderstorm since moving here in 2007. Another Portlander expressed confusion at this, saying he'd seen a couple. This is how I responded:

I have a different idea of what constitutes a thunderstorm. To me, one or two rolls of thunder or flashes of ( Read more... )

I like doing rituals with other people, but this SisterSpirit group has twice now done something that concerns me. Specifically, not doing their research. First it was a ritual where they were going to invoke a Celtic Goddess that doesn't like being summoned for frivolous reasons, for a frivolous reason, without knowing jack squat about Her ( Read more... )