The winter solstice is the longest night of the year, the night when, courtesy of the earth’s axial tilt, the light will start to return. It is one of the two extremes we experience very year as a part of the solar cycle. As an extreme, the solstices are a vital component of celestial and personal balance, and can teach us a great deal about how to move through life even in the most trying of times.
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The Lament for the Lost commemorates different kinds of major losses that have been suffered, from lives, to livelihoods, normalcy, dignity, and sanity.
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It may seem counter-intuitive to include a plastic tree as a sincere spiritual component of Yule, but it makes sense to me for some very specific reasons.
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This tarot spread for problem solving is for when anxiety, lack of confidence, or misperception creates an inability to effectively proceed.
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When I started blogging about paganism and witchcraft, I expected the hardest part to be deciding what to write about. I did not expect the hardest part to be having confidence in the public relevance of what I was writing.
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Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow is one of those rare books that sings to my personal practice, and has the ability to clarify and illuminate in a way like no other text I have ever encountered.
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Instead of promoting healing, toxic forgiveness usually gives perpetrators a free pass on bad behavior and allows toxic or abusive situations to continue.
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This one has been in my queue since August when I started working on the series of articles on cursing and blessing. I feel like the timing on publishing it is particularly good, since the whole world has been particularly heavy and serious of late. Thus, today I bring you a collection of minor hexes and blessings. I hope it brings you a few giggles.
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I desperately want this to be over, and to be able to move on to the long and hard work of healing the nation, but you cannot heal when wounds keep coming.
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Harm and benefit are not absolute universal values, and the magics we weave can and do often incorporate aspects of both baneful and blessing energies.
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