People sometimes find it odd that I've been practicing the Craft for more than half my life, and I've never owned an athame. That is to say, I have a ritual knife, which I love and have used for about the last decade, but they tell me it isn't properly an athame, because it isn't a straight double-edged knife. It's a single-edged curved blade. Not ( Read more... )

One of the things I contemplate often in my spiritual practice is the intersection of Feri and Faery. They are two different traditions and lines of practice, but I've always felt they were different in the way that puzzle pieces are different, or like the parts of one of those true-love pendants that breaks into two pieces that fit together. Feri ( Read more... )

This Beltaine's ritual, and some stuff I was reading, got me thinking. A lot of the old stories and traditions relating to the Faery folk seem to be mainly focused on how to avoid interacting with them, or at least how to protect oneself from them if you can't avoid them. Charms to keep them away from one's house. Gifts to appease them. Places not ( Read more... )

A couple of my Pagan friends have apartments in the same building in the Lake district of Oakland. Now I hear tell a third Pagan family is moving into yet another apartment in the same building. And, a few blocks away is another house run by a Pagan family, and it looks like another couple of Pagan friends are moving in there too ( Read more... )

I was talking recently with another Feri initiate about a ritual being planned for Pantheacon. I was asked to help with calling in a pair of deities ( Read more... )