Wellspring [ review] has me back in the swing of spirituality, I think. I've got two study programs to finish my own work on (there's an odd, sudden urgency to finishing Trance 2. . . I wonder why?), as well as numerous projects that are in a stage of complete-or-almost-complete that just need that last little bit of work to create the report. ( Read more... )

It's true that I haven't missed a Trillium in five years, but it's also true that I don't think I've ever said, "Let's get out of the sun" at Trillium, either, until this year.

Trillium is that festival, you know? It's the one that, the first time you went to it, you said, "Wow, I really need to go to more festivals, because this is awesome!" It's ( Read more... )

( Here is a basic timeline of my tenure in ADF. It's relevant, I promise. )

When did you last pray? Last do a ritual? Last attend something with your spiritual brothers or sisters? Last take a hike and look with wonder on the world and feel full of its beauty and promise? And, if you're not the spiritual sort, when did you last do whatever it is that fulfills you ( Read more... )

So, as many of you know, I'm a big fan of authentic (or authentically reconstructed) grimoires of ancient magic. The Greek Magical Papyri (or PGM for short), the Sepher Ha-Razim (a reconstructed Jewish magical text), and a variety of other sources really interest me. (For a selection of bits that really interested me a couple of years ago, check ( Read more... )

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I have a very long night ahead of me. First, a Pagan Pride Day meeting that I (admittedly) view as "superfluous" and possibly "entirely unneeded", but I know when people need their security blankets, and I'm willing to do what's needed to help with that ( Read more... )

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1. Asking people to think before they speak is apparently "asking people to pretend to be something they're not."
2. I was never self-conscious of my finances until I got an email about how privileged I obviously am yesterday, and was, in fact, quite proud of how I've been handling them. I'm back to being proud, though.
3. When I started a Grove, I didn't ( Read more... )