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Turning the Tide 2024 Recap
Turning the Tide is a small, pagan festival that occurs each year in Miami, FL. It’s put on by the great folks at Everglades Moon Local Council and has been happening since 1997! Selene and I have been attending for the past few years. This year was Tides #17 and the theme was “Crafting the…
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Chosen Family. Weekly Recap 2/12/2024
My favorite people to be around are our chosen family. I talk about this fairly often, especially in my posts about festival. We all have our family, yes… people that we are associated with by blood and not by choice. But we also have our chosen, spiritual family — folks that we have selected and…
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The ideal day. Weekly Recap 2/5/2024
The ideal day begins, of course, with a little bit of breakfast. It doesn’t have to be complicated, but there are options. There’s coffee, fruit, oatmeal, hardboiled eggs, muffins, donuts, bagels, and a few of your other standard breakfast items. And it’s all right in front of you in a giant buffet — you just…
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Let’s take this one step at a time… Weekly Recap 1/29/2024
I think the craft gently invites us to face our fears pretty regularly. Or at least, I think it should if it’s being approached the right way. And the further you go, the more fears you have to conquer. Lucky for us, you don’t have to face them all at once. You can take them…
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Imbolc
Ah, Imbolc — the first day of Spring, traditionally celebrated every year in the Northern Hemisphere on February 1 and sometimes through the end of the next day. It’s one of the four Greater Sabbats on the modern Wheel of the Year. What’s in a Name? Imbolc, sometimes spelled Imbolg, is derived from an old…
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Cats understand everything… Weekly Recap 1/22/2024
If you don’t believe that cats understand everything, or at least a good bit of everything, then I’d say it’s highly likely that you don’t live with cats. Regardless, I’ll try to explain what I’ve noticed. For starters, I’ve always found it rather interesting how they intuitively understand how to identify objects that we show…
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Guide to Wiccan Prison Ministry – Part 2
Jump to Lesson: Selene and I are the only ones in the chapel. There’s a hallway with locked doors on either side, some of which lead to meeting rooms, others to offices. At the end, there’s a large auditorium — just picture your typical church setup — stage, pulpit, speakers, etc. I’m unlocking doors, rummaging…
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What do a lion, a bull, an eagle, and a man have in common? Weekly Recap 1/15/2024
The Sphinx is frequently depicted as a combination of four different creatures (referred to as “kerubim”) — a lion, a bull, an eagle, and a man. In turn, these represent the four fixed signs of the zodiac and the four elements. If you want to read more about that, I explain it a bit further…
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Guide to Wiccan Prison Ministry – Part 1
Jump to Lesson: I remove my belt and my shoes. My pockets are empty. My jewelry, cell phone, and wallet are locked away outside in the car. I step through a metal detector. It doesn’t go off. A guard motions to keep moving. Another guard comes up from behind and gives me a pat down.…
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Live a Magickal Life. Weekly Recap 1/8/2024
Albert Einstein once famously said… “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is magickal. The other is as though everything is.” I used to have a picture of Einstein taped onto my guitar case. For a long while, I also had a plaster bust of Einstein’s head on…
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Aerik Arkadian, Questions and Answers – Ep. 6
In this episode, I answer viewer questions that were sourced from the community. We’ll cover topics like coven dynamics, male role models, the mysteries, basic beginner tips, and more. I’ll never claim that I have the only way to do things, but I’m happy to share my opinion.
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