Tag: personal experience
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To Begin Again: Lessons in Surrender and Gratitude
Categories: ArticlesThere was a time in my life when I treated any sort of mishap as a personal insult or punishment from the Universe. I spent years asking “why me?” and not “what can I learn from this experience?” I felt the need to willpower my way through life as if everything were a challenge and
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Witchy Everyday Carry: What’s In My Priestexing Bag
Categories: ArchiveFor years, I carried a small version of a full ritual setup in my bag, just in case I was called upon for an urgent matter such as a hospital visit, death call, or emergency ghostbusting and house blessing service. But I realized that during those sorts of calls, I didn’t seem to need much…
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Even If Your Voice Shakes: Courage in Uncertain Times
Categories: ArchiveI have been out and proud as a Queer person and a Pagan for over twenty years. I couldn’t go back into the closet if I tried – and the thought of trying routinely occurs to me because I need to protect my home, my family, my employment.
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Deferred Maintenance: Rebuilding A Spiritual Practice
Categories: ArchiveOne of the things I had to do as my mind began to recover was to become more aware of the capabilities I have now – at 42 years old – instead of holding myself to the same standards that I did at 32 or even 22 years old.
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The Hippie Witch Life: An Apprenticeship In Retrospect
Categories: ArchiveThere’s a certain glamour about the hippie witch life that the uninitiated gravitate toward. The carefree, commune-dwelling, love-and-peace aesthetic is alluring. In the mind’s eye, the garden is always flourishing, the animals never get sick, the well pump never breaks, and the outside world is always accepting.
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The Death of a Dream: Churches, Seminaries, and Other Uphill Battles
Categories: ArchiveTags: personal experienceIt was a long struggle for Taz and I both to realize that we, by ourselves, didn’t have the resources available to support the sort of infrastructure that we were trying to build.
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The Web: Dancing With the Universe
Categories: ArchiveThe 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: ArchiveThe 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: ArchiveIn 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: ArchiveWiccan priestesshood is a life-long undertaking, which is why it takes time for the proper person to become properly prepared for initiation.