Pagan

December 20, 2021

Feeling Good

Birds flying high, you know how I feel
I have a very intense fear of heights. But the thing about having a fear of heights, is that having a fear of heights is not about the fear of being up high, it is about the fear of falling. It is the fear of having nothing to catch you. I have dreams of being in the body of a bird, of flying, and in those dreams I have no fear of falling because I will catch myself on my wings. It is the plummeting crash that I fear. The view from up high is amazing, the fear is the potential to fall.

October 31, 2021

All Hallows Eve

Poetry

I am wishing everyone a blessed Samhain and a happy Halloween on this day. The following is one of my favorite poems, from Audre Lorde. You can listen to me read it in the 10th episode of Wandering Troupe Poetry Readings, my Patron-only poetry podcast which I have made publicly available for this episode only.

September 28, 2021

The Elements

Pagan, Poetry

This poem is somewhat an ode to my tattoos, but I’ve gotten more tattoos since then. I hope you enjoy!

April 8, 2020

Book Review: Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice by Misha Magdalene

Book Review

I had high hopes for Misha Magdalene’s Outside the Charmed Circle, and I am pleased to say that I was not at all disappointed. This book is a wealth of information about some of the subjects that I enjoy best: embodiment, gender, sexuality, and magic. More importantly, this book calls our attention to the fact […]

January 8, 2020

Book Review: Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollée

Book Review

I’ll admit it, I picked up this book because of the title. But beyond being provocative, the ways in which Sollée illuminates the connections between witchcraft, feminism, and sex within Witches, Sluts, Feminists are powerful and incredibly enlightening. I found this book to be an intriguing mix of things I knew, things I didn’t know, […]

December 11, 2019

UPG vs. Headcanon: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Fandom

There is no functional difference between UPG/ SPG and headcanon/ fanon; it is only because people perceive fandom and religion as distinct entities that they are not allowed to fully coexist. My perception is that this is because people may think that comparing religion to fandom delegitimizes religious practice, but that strikes me as nonsense and I don’t at all agree.

June 27, 2019

Some Thoughts About Tarot Cards, Hogwarts Houses, and the Four Elements

Fandom, Reflection

I’ve been getting into Tarot cards lately, and I’ve always been into Harry Potter, so it is only natural that eventually I was going to combine the two. The first thing you need to understand is that when I decide to pick up a new hobby, I commit. So when I decided to take up […]

September 25, 2018

On Cooperation and Belonging

Reflection

I like waking up early. It makes me feel as though I am at peace with the world, when people are quiet, and all I can hear are the few early morning birds, interspersed with the comparatively few cars and buses that drive by. I do sometimes (often) wish that I didn’t live in the […]