In addition to my work with the ADF, I’ve been working with the New Hermetics course from Jason Newcomb. This week’s lesson takes us through an exercise that’s about sending out love to the universe. It’s amazing how just focusing on love can put a smile on your face. We’re not talking about sexual love,…
I have always loved mythology. I grew up reading the stories of the Greek and Roman myths and reveling in the world of Hercules and Hermes and Artemis. It’s interesting that over the years I will occasionally reach out and find out more about myths, but they are definitely more a casual hobby. In my OBOD studies,…
Innovation is critical for any culture or society. Without innovation, we stagnate, we fail to change as the world around us changes, and we die. We may not physically die, but our spirit, our creativity, our soul dies. Innovations don’t have to be big, but they need to be there. Something as simple as trying…
In my effort to catch up on my Pagan Blog Project posts, here’s my first “I” post … all about Isa Isa is a bit of an odd rune to get in a reading, and even more odd to get in a single rune pull. On the surface, Isa is about the harshness and danger…
No matter what path you follow, you will frequently encounter suggestions that you should journal your experiences. When I started out, I wasn’t the journaling type. For years I refused to journal unless it was required for a class that I was doing, and then I would do the minimum required. A few months before…
I thought that Justice would be an interesting topic for the Pagan Blog Project this week. In my wanderings through various pagan publications, online and offline, I come across spells for Justice. Using magic for justice is a very tricky thing. You have to be sure that your slate is as clean as it can…
For my second H post, I’m going to take a prompt from T. Thorn Coyle … “What gives you hope?“. In her post, Thorn talks about re-connecting with humanity through random acts of kindness. In the past I have advocated smiling, and Thorn takes it a step further. In this age of computers, it’s very…
This week’s Pagan Blog Post is about Hurts. Not the kind of hurt you get when you fall down, but the kind of hurt that gets into a child’s mind and changes the way they view the world. You may wonder what this has to do with magic. In order to perform magic fully, you…
Over my years of studying, and not studying, witchcraft, I keep coming back to the idea of grounding. It’s a very basic thing, but is so incredibly useful! One might even say, essential. My fellow Pagan Blog Project blogger, Sharmonia talks about Grounding this week as well and I have to agree with her. Being…
This week for the first ‘G’ week on the Pagan Blog Project, I’d like to write about Good Will. Many people expect pagan elders to provide training or services for free, out of good will. While I agree that we should do what we can to better the experience and life of our fellow man,…