The Balancing Path (Prose)
These pages are an index of articles I have written on witchcraft, paganism, and spirituality. Some articles are listed under multiple headings.
Witchcraft Blog (everything)
Browse all my witchy posts and The Balancing Path in chronological order, starting with the most recently posted content.
Nonbinary & Transgender Topics
Articles related to gender, sexuality, intersectionality, and nonbinary thinking.
Social Justice
Here you will find all of my writings that directly pertain to social justice issues. I believe all people are deserving of equal rights and opportunities, and stand firmly against all forms of bigotry and discrimination, including but not limited to racism, bigotry, transphobia, ableism, antisemitism, xenophobia, ageism, classism, sexism, and misandry.
Self-Awareness and Introspection
These articles are all about shadow work, getting to know yourself, finding and living your personal truth, and healing your inner wounds so you can live your most authentic and fulfilling life, whatever that means for you.
Magical Principles & Cosmology
Here you will find articles relating to foundational magical principles and techniques like energy work, meditation, the elements, and musings about the nature of the universe.
Death and Change
Death is constant, and its vehicle is change. These articles explore aspects of change, death, mourning, and commemorating the things that have passed from our lives.
Baneful and Blessing Magic
I explore baneful and blessing magic as two very similar and compatible approaches to achieving change, one through offensive means, and the other through defensive.
Deities, Spirits, & Other Noncorporeal Beings
All of these articles relate to the noncorporeal beings we share the world with or may encounter in our personal practices, from the big name deities to tiny animistic spirits.
Wheel of the Year
These articles all relate to the natural cycles of the wheel of the year and sabbats holiday and seasonal observations.
Tools of the Magical Trade
Here you will find all my articles relating to the physical objects and spaces we use when working magic or conducting ourselves spiritually.
Sigil Magic
Here you will find links to detailed information on various sigils I have created and how to use them, as well as sharable graphics you are welcome to snag.
Magical Community
These articles are on topics related to our communities and interpersonal issues, whether we are talking about tiny covens, giant festivals, public rituals, online groups, or interactions between individuals.
Magic Spells, Rituals, and Exercises
These articles all contain magic spells, rituals, and personal exercises laid out for you to try yourself.
Divination, Tarot, and Oracle Cards
Here you will find layouts, thoughts and musing on card-based divination and spellwork.
Words Have Power
These articles focus on nuance of meaning, connotation, and responsibility in our word choices. Words have the power to hurt or heal, teach or deny, clarify or obfuscate, and often the difference between the various extremes is choosing one word over another in an otherwise identical sentence.
Reviews
Here you will find my reviews of various books and other metaphysical items.
At a Certain Time…
These articles were all written in response to particular circumstances or events going on at the time they were written, so they are not evergreen in the way many other articles are. Unlike the rest of these index pages, these articles are listed from most recent to oldest, with the original publication date also indicated.
Recent Balancing Path Blog Posts
9 Energy Healing Tips and Tricks
These energy healing tips and tricks are for both healers and recipients, in or out of a professional setting. Some tips will hopefully make it easier to find a good match between healer and recipient, and easier to find a supportive setting in which to do the healing. Other tips are aimed at helping to…
Psychic Skin Meditation for Cultivating Energy Body Health and Awareness
This psychic skin meditation is designed to help you cultivate conscious awareness of your energy body, and develop the ability to heal and protect yourself from psychic/energetic/magical intrusion without sacrificing awareness or sensitivity to the energetic aspects of the world around you. It also encourages the development of introspection and self-awareness as a path…
Safe Travels Sigil
The Safe Travels Sigil provides magical protection to help you reach your destination safely, no matter how you travel, and whether you are the driver, a passenger, or a pedestrian.
Neurospicy Take on Positive Affirmations
Positive affirmations as they are typically done, do not work for me, and I am certain that is also true for a lot of other people who are also neurodivergent, and others as well. But, the idea has value, and affirmations can be approached in ways that will work even for those of us who…
Why Not Sigil
The Why Not Sigil is a ward to help overcome decision paralysis / analysis paralysis. While decision paralysis can happen to anyone, for many people with ADHD it is a constant struggle. This sigil is intended to be another tool to help overcome such paralysis, to help you find an option that will…
Love is Conditional and Unlimited
Love is always conditional, and that’s not an inherently bad thing. In fact, it can be a very beneficial thing when we understand the circumstances when we do or do not feel love. That understanding can help us to fine-tune our conscious boundaries so that we can avoid giving love to those who do not…
Sigil for Medicine Efficacy
This sigil is designed to boost the desired effects of medicine, while warding against drug interactions and reducing side effects. It is designed to be used with any medicine, herbs, or remedies which are being used for medical purposes, whether it is taken internally or used externally.
Ethical Love Magic
Most love magic is ethical, but the unethical kinds of love magic are so flashy and sensational that unethical love magic is usually the first, and often the only kind of love magic to come to mind when the subject is mentioned. What makes love magic ethical or unethical usually boils down to matters of…