Tag: personal experience
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The Web: Dancing With the Universe
Categories: ArticlesThe Web is more than the natural connections between all beings, be they animal, vegetable, or mineral. It also incorporates concepts of wyrd, karma, and mana.
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The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of the Great Teachers
Categories: ArticlesThe Way, at least as I currently understand it, is a practice that emphasizes the sorts of universal truths that underpin many of the world’s religions and philosophies-of-life: love one another, harm none, honor the divine, exercise compassion, help those in need, defend those who cannot defend themselves, safeguard all children, respect your elders, enjoy…
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The Work: A Tale of Two Wiccas
Categories: ArticlesIn Traditional Initiatory Wicca, there are working rituals and celebratory occasions that have a distinct pattern, symbolism, and lore attached to them. And then, there is the other stuff. And the other stuff, at its heart, can really only be defined as purpose-driven and intuitive ecstatic practice.
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Wiccan Priestesshood: Serving the Gods, Preserving the Craft
Categories: ArticlesWiccan priestesshood is a life-long undertaking, which is why it takes time for the proper person to become properly prepared for initiation.
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The Shame Room
Categories: Creative NonfictionAt the abortion clinic, they don’t let anyone go back with you. The waiting room is filled with people wanting abortions, people supporting the people wanting abortions, and people judging the people wanting abortions. You pay up-front. You wait. You get called back. You get blood tested. You wait. You get an ultrasound. They ask…