2020: the year of detox
In the latter half of 2019 I started getting more into astrology, the moon phases, and a bunch of related stuff. So I subscribed to Ivy at Circle Thrice‘s newsletter, […]
Practice Makes Progress: September 18th – 25th
I’m shamelessly stealing this idea from Jenett as a way to actually, you know. Blog. I’ve been so silent on here for so long and it’s not because I’m doing […]
Monstrous Ancestry: Channeling the Better Parts of Our Forebears; Transforming the Worst
This post originally appeared on Patreon on Saturday, February 9th, 2019. This morning I channeled my bio-sire in my kitchen. Clothed in woolen socks, boxers, and a sweatshirt, I cooked […]
It is hard to love you now
Relationships with the gods and spirits are for many reasons. For gifts, for help, because you like them, because you share some element, some essence. Reciprocity. I give to the […]
Supermarket Magic Review Part 3: Return of the Bitter, Angry Morag
Oh gods I hope it’s almost over. Accessible? If you have limitless time and energy This isn’t a comment on any one chapter. It’s a comment on all of them. […]
Supermarket Magic Review Part 2: Ableism Boogaloo
Welcome back to my review of Supermarket Magic! After suffering through multiple transient ischemic attacks while reading the Ethics chapter, I happily moved on to the meat of the book […]
Review of Supermarket Magic: Part 1
Review: Supermarket Magic by Michael Furie Warning: this post is going to be long and ranty. EDIT: yeah it’s now 3 posts. SETTLE IN. I really wanted to like this […]
Putting “Honor the Mothers” on hiatus
I’ve come to realize something over the past little while. I need to put Honor the Mothers on pause. This project started as a way for me to clean my […]
If You’re Going Through Hell…
Sometimes it doesn’t work, and you have to learn to be okay with that. I’m not trying to tell you what to feel; I’m talking about my own experience as […]
Housekeeping Note
(This wasn’t posted first at Patreon because it’s not really a true post, just a note on housekeeping at the blog.) So I was doing both Steady and Patreon because, […]
My Quick and Dirty Imbolc Ritual
Ok, it wasn’t that dirty, but the phrase works better when I include it. It was VERY quick and I found myself mentally comparing it to a quickie in a […]
There is a Monster in this House
I have spent most of this month (and year) trying my best to be positive about everything. I have a tendency to let the worst five minutes of a day […]
Protected: An Excerpt from “Honor the Mothers”: swatches
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Protected: An Excerpt from “Honor the Mothers”: Mending
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Joy & Grief: figuring out my Samhain Advent
I completely dropped the ball on doing fire festival advents this year. In the wave of grief following the death of my friend and the death of my mentor, it […]
The Exhaustion of Grief
When I first started First Nations Studies, I knew Elders would be in the classroom. I don’t know exactly what I expected, but I didn’t expect Uncle Ray. Instead of […]
When the Magick Dies
I skipped Beltane advent. I didn’t want to. I just did. I forgot about it until the first week of it had passed, and then I forgot again, and again, […]
Spring Equinox Ritual 2017 debrief
My spring equinox ritual could have gone better, but on the other hand, I did it only a day off from the actual equinox. Which I think might be a […]
Little Things
On Wednesday I woke up with intense pain in my neck and a massive, pounding headache. My plans for working on kitchen clean up and thus my year long project […]
Imbolc 2017, Ritual Debrief
My Imbolc ritual wasn’t a full ritual, not like I did Loafmass last year. Hopefully at some point I’ll get it figured out enough to actually do rituals for the […]
Reflections on Imbolc Advent, 2017
So, this year I attempted an Imbolc Advent, and it went in a very Morag way. First, some explanation: I didn’t do 4 weeks before, I did 3. This was […]
Advents and Anniversaries
I just realized recently that this January is my 7th anniversary of beginning to keep the flame for Brighid and starting up a true devotional relationship with her, as it’s […]
A Christmas Ritual to Santa
(Note: This post was meant to go up much earlier than the beginning of February, but I spent most of January being pretty sick. My apologies! –M) It was very […]
Lantern of the Ancestors
Sermon in church yesterday was exactly what I needed. I was late, somehow, even though I made the decision to stay up later and make the 8:30 am service instead […]
The Samhain that Wasn’t
Following up on a successful, if belated, Loafmass, this year I wanted to have a good Samhain celebration. I tried to get to it by October 31st, but that didn’t […]