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Can I get some backup at the register?
Sometimes I get frustratedĀ forĀ myself as a practitioner. I get frustrated for all of us. There have been periods in my life where Iāve wondered if I wasnāt just hitting a wall, and maybe just bored with Craft as a whole. Like, after decades, surely itās no great crime to find oneself bored. I wrote a wholeass book about what to do when those sorts of feelings hit (along with burnout,ā¦
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Social Media Freakout Time, Sort Of
Itās weird wading through all of the conversations surrounding the TikTok ban, the enshittification of Instagram, where folks are migrating to next, and if social media is still even a viable thing as an author who needs to promote books. I was never making money on TikTok, and was never diligent enough in crafting promotional content that I noticed much of an impact on my book sales, so the banā¦
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The Influence of New Thought: A Sneak Peek into Witches Among Us
Witches Among Us: Understanding Contemporary Witchcraft and Wicca is out in less than a month, but I thought you might enjoy a small preview. This is from a chapter called āWitchcraft in Context,ā and itās my favorite in the book because I basically get to nerd out about stuff thatās almost always completely left out of witch books, but which *I* have always thought is really important. Here,ā¦
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Longstanding Misconceptions
Iām gradually moving into marketing mode in preparation for Witches Among Us to be released this October, and as I was updating my website I found myself reconsidering my 2022 appearance on Anthony Padillaās YouTube show, āI Spent a Day Withā¦ā I was just going to drop the link on the appearances and interviews tab, but just for the hell of it I scrolled through some of the most recent comments.ā¦
Summer Plans
Summer always feels to me like an incubation period. The thing about living with a school schedule for the majority of your life is that your whole yearly wheel gets screwed up, and stops looking like that of most of the folks around you. The New Year is in mid-August. There are only three seasons: Fall semester, Spring semester, summer. Winter is only the sighed breath after exams, gone byā¦
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#OcculTea: A Video and More Thoughts
Earlier this week, Ella Harrison, Polish Folk Witch, and the Redheaded Witch asked participants in online witchcraft communities to use #occultea and share their thoughts on a series of prompts about participating in these spaces. Iāve spent the last couple of days watching folks on YouTube, Instagram, and elsewhere begin responding, and itās been really gratifying for me. I both love and hateā¦
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Goodbye, 2022!
Holy shit, friends, this has been a year. I feel like I havenāt kept up with anything, and itās all just gotten away from me. When that happens, I have to resort to lists: I started my PhD in August, and am going to school full time, working as a TA, and continuing to work my full time WFH publishing job. Iām also still working on writing project, managing a Patreon community, and trying to justā¦
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What Good is Gardnerian Wicca?
What Good is GardnerianĀ Wicca?
When I was in my first year of graduate school, I took a class in atheism. An unusual offering in American religious studies programs, I was interested in the treatment of atheism as a (non)religious category. Most of my friends at the time were atheists (as is common amongst academics who study religion) and I grew up in starkly secular spaces. It seemed worthwhile to visit the subject formally,ā¦
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Ritual Nudity for the Insecure
Ritual Nudity for theĀ Insecure
āI would have approached you sooner, but I was a little freaked out about the skyclad thing,ā Erin says to me self-consciously. āIāve got some body issues.ā Erin was just invited to circle with Foxfireās outer court, after hanging out with us in open Pagan spaces for about the last year. I figured she would ask me about my coven eventuallyāher personality just fitsābut some seekers have to spendā¦
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Keeping Magical Records, Despite Yourself
Keeping Magical Records, DespiteĀ Yourself
My pile of old witch books, spanning Teen Witch to Gardnerian third. I was taught to keep a journal beginning in the first grade. Every morning, Mrs. West handed out fresh sheets of lined newsprint and we were instructed to write about the day before, how we were feeling, a dream we had, or about something we were looking forward to that week. We were also encouraged to draw pictures toā¦
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Other People's Witchcraft
Other Peopleās Witchcraft
Do you ever think about how little we actually know about each other? Like, how telling you Iām a witch doesnāt actually give you much information at all about what Iām actually up to? And how even words like āWiccanā and āGardnerianā donāt actually tell you very much, because lots of people use them differently?
I think about that all the time. When someone tells me theyāre a witch, I have toā¦
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Next Level Witchcraft (or whatever it's called)
Next Level Witchcraft (or whatever itāsĀ called)
The second book is complete and in the hands of the good folks at Llewellyn! The tentative release is September 2021, and I hope to see the first round of feedback in a few weeks. I confess to being a little nervous about this one. Will they like it?
People always ask me how I go about researching my books, and itās kind of an awkward question because, wellā¦I donāt. Thereās zero researchā¦
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My Five Favorite Recent Witch Books
My Five Favorite Recent WitchĀ Books
Iāve made a lot of blog posts and videos in the past about favorite books: advanced books, beginner books, books for people interested in taking things in a new direction, classics I think everyone should read, and books that Iāve got in my personal to-be-read pile. But I was recently asked to share my thoughts on which recent releases were important, or would have an impact for people exploringā¦
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Creativity, Competition, and Community
Creativity, Competition, andĀ Community
One of my thesis advisors in graduate school told me, as I was working up my proposal and trying to figure out exactly what I was going to focus on, that building a new argument is a lot harder than tearing down someone elseās. In other words, donāt use this opportunity to only dismantle something. Say something new.
That struck me hard and has stuck with me into other parts of my life. Iāveā¦
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If Everything Changes, What Good is Tradition?
If Everything Changes, What Good isĀ Tradition?
My friend and initiate, Corvus, is in the process of starting a coven, and the other night we got to chatting about what it will mean for her to go forward, both as part of a community and as an autonomous high priestess. What if she does something that pisses off her upline? What if she gets out into the community and decides she doesnāt fit in? What if she has genuine encounters with the godsā¦
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Saying Hello to a NewĀ Year Hi, Patheos readers! I'm not actually new here, but a lot has changed since I first came aboard back in 2015.
The Nature of theĀ Gods My personal theological position has moved as my Craft has grown and changed, and I find that it loops around.