Helping a loved one die
I helped someone die this week. It was a sacred privilege. It's Samhain season, the time of year when magical folk talk about remembering our ancestors and recognizing death
Six things I learned from the O.T.O. Women’s Symposium
"Ladies of Force and Fire" are fierce! Sixty of us met in Minneapolis on the first weekend in August this year.
Shaping the Witch’s body
Sex magick has gotten me everything I ever wanted. When I escaped my parental home it helped me work through the impact of an abusive childhood.
Standing with community on Pride Weekend
It's Pride weekend in Seattle. On Wednesday night a trans activist leaving a fundraiser for victims of the Orlando shooting was approached by a white man who said “happy Pride” before launching a vicious face-punching attack that landed the survivor in the hospital.
What remembering you on circle means
Whenever a friend talks about some difficulty they are facing in life I ask “can we remember you in circle?” Here’s what that means.
Performing a handfasting wedding
Here’s how it started: a farmer friend reached out to me and asked if I could officiate at a marriage. Two of her farming apprentices wanted to get married right away so it would basically be that same week.
The best devotional method
I’ve been doing devotionals to deities for several decades. When I started it was difficult to find instructions on how to do it.
Writing a book as initiation
Containment, transformation, emergence. Virginia Beane Rutter describes this process as an initiatory pattern.
When the veil of life falls
Last night I saw a lot of cute costumes. Halloween as a secular holiday is about dressing up, getting and giving candy, and admiring people's artistic skills in carving squash.