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On Wild Urban Places
One question I see a lot and and take part in a lot of conversation is people living in urban areas desiring to connect with wild or untamed places. Side stepping the discussion of the human world verse the natural world, there is a part of most people that desires wild places. This desire is weaker or stronger in different people, but it's there ( Read more... ) -
The Watchers, the Fey, and the Witch: A Study of Blood
Let's consider for a moment several bits of myth and several bits of lore, and how mythic history interweaves with how things work in the craft ( Read more... ) -
Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis: Some Thoughts on Misruletide
’Tis the season. But what season? This is an interesting time of year ( Read more... ) -
Stories from the Gleam
Stories ( Read more... ) -
Hail, oh, Builder of Storms
You take your throne as winter comes ( Read more... ) -
Pipers
The Twins ( Read more... ) -
On Veils and Webs and Hedges...
Much folklore, tradition, and mythology talk of a boundary, an edge, a division between worlds. Why this is common should be fairly evident. If there is an Otherworld, Underworld, any type of world beyond ours, if there was no separation, there would be no other world, the two would be one. For the two to be distinct, or function as distinct, ( Read more... ) -
The Cauldron of Annwfn
The following is Preiddeu Annwyn, the Raid of Annwyn, the Raid of the Otherworld, part XXX (30) of the Book of Taliesin, as related by William F. Skene in 1868 in his The Four Ancient Books of Wales. In it is related the Caer Sidi, Caer Pedrycan, Caer Vedwyd, Caer Rigor, Caer Wydyr, Caer Golud, Caer Vandwy, and Caer Ochren, familiar to readers of ( Read more... ) -
In the Gleam Beyond the Gloom
Through the darkness I part the Veil ( Read more... ) -
I'll Be in the Bay Area at the Castro End of Februarty
So, I'm going to a conference in the Castro last weekend of February spilling into March. I'd like to meet a few of my Bay Area friends while I'm there. I have most of it set, have the registration paid and a plane ticket, just need to figure out a place to stay when I get my next paycheck. I'll be flying in on Wednesday the 25th if I recall, ( Read more... )