This is a time of year when we look to the past.  We flip through the memory book of our mind and note the faces of those that have come before us.  With some, we share the genetic material of the physical body.  With others, we share the spiritual genetics of the subtle body and [...]

A comment was made deep in another thread by a reader that stirred up the Goddess in me so fiercely that I couldn’t sleep.  Nothing like Sekhmet padding through your brain to keep you from the Dreamtime.
Again, the same questions — can I call myself a Wiccan if I’m not initiated?  Can I be a [...]

I’ve had a number of people in the last month or so ask me what they can do to help promote my writing and my website.  Most people know I’m in the midst of writing a couple of books and charting out some proposals for future things when I need a break from writing.  I’ll [...]

If you’re here looking for dirty laundry about my time as an Ex-Reconstructionist, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
The fact are simple.  I began my training as a Wiccan.  I became a Reconstructionist for a while after a crisis of faith in my local pagan community.  I was a dedicated (as in “committed”) Reconstructionist for a [...]

Welcome to one of the SEX ARTICLES on the website!  Congratulations — you will now be inundated with science porn!  Seriously, though… sex is central to Wicca and we’ll be discussing it regularly but hold off on lighting up that cigarette for just a moment.  Sex, as I’m referring to it, does not equal kink [...]

There are tons of definitions out there for what WILL is.  There’s some great ones, to be sure, and pagans will argue until the cows come home about which one is best, most accurate, and who said it first.
To me, definitions can be rather unuseful when working with complex concepts.  It’s great to know what [...]

I have a well-deserved reputation for being a “Bitch of a Witch” about ethics.  I spend weeks on the Laws of the Craft, breaking these Laws down into three separate types:  Nature, Craft, and Self.  Responses from Dedicants range from excitement at first, then turn into incredulity at the assignments I give, and finally understanding [...]

As I clickety-click my way through various blog posts today, I find some wonderful posts about religious freedom, about America, some great links to the Founding Fathers and their vision of what liberty meant then, and some great writing among peers about what freedom means now.
I belong to a number of minorities.  I’m a woman.  [...]