There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
--Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V

Let's talk about overgeneralization for a minute, shall we?

Maybe it's the political season that is leading people to more frequently make grandiose claims, but there have been a lot of really bold statements coming from friends and from ( Read more... )

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For the last 9 years I have marched in the Pride Parade, and worked at the Pride Festival like clockwork.  Giving my heart and my all for the Faeries.  This year, given the dearth of faeries involved in stuff, we just couldn't get our shit together in time and for the first time we had no parade contingent, and no Tarot readers at the festival ( Read more... )

Last week I led a ritual meditation on the Goddess Brigid for Imbolc.  It was a quiet contemplation experience and each person silently went to their own place.  I spent some time with the Goddess and images were flashing before me in a kind of montage of Goddess imagery.  Here's a little of the play by play as I can recall it from last week's ( Read more... )

I have thought long and long about who the DC Radical Faeries are.  We have had endless debates about it, are we a religion, a spiritual group, a social club, a knitting circle.  We are all of those things, but we are more than the sum of those parts.

I asked the Circle Keepers recently to rewrite our "about us" blurb, because it felt wrong.  That ( Read more... )

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Last night at Faerie potluck we had our Lammas ritual. It was, as usual, a fairly simple and straightforward kind of ritual time. We went around, talked about what we're harvesting as the fruits of our labors, what the group is reaping as a whole, what our intentions for future harvesting would be and our hopes for the group ( Read more... )

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Just got back from my trip up to Faerie Camp Destiny in Grafton Vermont. Here's a little rundown of my activities there ( Read more... )

I made plans to come up to Manchester and spend some time with Arc, and then we were going to go up to Faerie Camp Destiny. Well, our ride decided that he wasn't going to go after all and now we're just kind of hanging out around Manchester. We're still working on finding a ride, but I'm not sweating it. If I get there I get there, if not I still ( Read more... )