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Spring begins
Spring equinox has always been a fairly low-key holiday for me, especially in the years I’d been living in Oregon where March wasn’t significantly different than the months before it. But having just...
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Summer Begins
Like the spring equinox, this has always been an easygoing sort of holiday for me, and also one with Slavic overtones – traditionally I go to the river to honor the Rusalki. This year it’s a new...
View ArticlePetitioning by Name
It’s so nice when things come together in a way that makes it clear what you’re supposed to do next (whether or not you fully understand why). Thank the gods for synchronicities – especially Hermes,...
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Mycogenous – a book exploring Dionysos in the fungal realm
This project has been a long time in the making. Dionysos has always come first for me – I discovered Him before I was even properly pagan, and He was the first god I came to when I started studying...
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At the Gates
Yesterday was the Hermaia Propulaia, a festival I’ve been celebrating for… maybe about 15 years now, since Sannion and I invented it when we first arrived in Oregon. It honors Hermes “before the...
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New release: Digital collection of my essays
After taking my books Dwelling on the Threshold and Between the Worlds out of print earlier this year, I’ve received several inquiries about whether they were still available somewhere or if I had...
View ArticleChants for Dionysos
In Mycogenous I include words for a few chants, and I thought it might be helpful to record these just to help those who want to try them out. So I made a quick little video below. A reminder that I...
View ArticleNew Year rituals
This is sort of a mash-up holiday for me, where over time I’ve accumulated a variety of both traditional customs and newly invented rites, involving many different gods and spirits, which I tweak...
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A quarter century with Hermes
Recently, while going through my old spiritual journals to find something, I discovered that today marks the 25th anniversary of Hermes coming into my life. This happened relatively suddenly compared...
View ArticleWhere We Meet
What does it actually feel like, to be in the presence of – and in communication with – a god or spirit? Sometimes, it is like this: “The revelation was unquestionable, just as in a thousand other...
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