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Breaking New Ground
Egad! I realize suddenly: it has been three months since last I cast a cursed composition into this blasted blogosphere! This despite writing more in the past half a year than probably ever before in my life. While I’ve been away, my attention has been devoted almost exclusively to classwork, and I am becoming somewhat…
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Scavenged Rituals
In review: Scavenged Rituals Issue V1N3 released Autumn 2023, available from Portland Button Works and The Spiral House Shop I recently came across an online discussion stating that the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe has begun denying entrance to pagans and witches (1). Meanwhile, The Serpent’s Key, an esoteric supply shop in Hanover Pennsylvania, has endured…
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The Hekataeon (review)
This is a quick writeup done off the cuff, based on a customer review I posted to Miskatonic’s site with a typo I can’t correct. So here’s a slightly different draft of what’s written there. Another full post is coming soon! Happy Solstice! – Jason The Hekataeon – Medea (green) edition by Jack Grayle. Grayle…
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Green Dream Threshold
. One morning, as I woke, I was led toward Henbane by an unseen guide. I tell that story HERE, and by the end of it I’d got my hands on some ink – specifically this Verdant Inks Green Blood Henbane from Rosarium Blends. That was in the Summer- the vial arrived and sat unopened into Autumn…
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JT and the Chthonic Daimonic
This is an account of spirit contact during a weekend trip to the woods that my darling life-partner treated me to recently! The following takes place at night, in Western Oregon, in a popular state park. The park is situated so as to protect the remains of an ancient forest now surrounded by farmland and…
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As the Crow Flies
“We may only be subordinates / but we hear everything All your closed door conversations / we’re always listening We sense frequencies you’d never hear / or think to pay attention to” – Ezra Furman (1) Greetings, Comrades! The rain is finally here, and with it come the short days of silver light filtering gently…
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Jumping In Place
August 2023 “I am a rock… I am an island… – Simon and Garfunkle (1) Protective talisman from from Papyri Greco Magicae VII The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation, Ed. Hans Dieter Betz (2) … In a society… All of us ride in- and sometimes even pilot– our own personal spheres of influence. We use…
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Herbarium Tremens
_ Fullness and Satiety to you my lovely friends. Tonight we have our front door open, and the sound of crickets is echoing in from the dark. This above is a cupful of Borage petals and seeds – I have been drying them through the Summer as my plants drop them. This is a generational…
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Summer’s Hum
Greetings, folks! I hope that the dreams you have planted are growing bold and majestic under your attention and toil! I’ve been wrestling with composing an extensive blog post for over a month now and finally realized that the reason I can’t seem to resolve it is because there are actually TWO essays in there,…
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Hekate Praxis (3 of 3)
Dream, Voice, Ornament, Offering For this final of three planned posts on my work with the goddess Hekate I’ll refer obliquely to my journal of the past couple months, and some of the ways that this deepening relationship plays out. … “16 names of the goddess” I awoke from a dream one morning in early…
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Hekate Praxis (2 of 3)
: : “Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.” -Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys : Hekate altar, March 2023.Author’s personal archive. In my recent post “Be Not Afraid” I wrote about Time and some of the ways humans try to organize and chart it. Against the spectre of an unwieldy final piece of writing, I…
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Hekate Praxis (1 of 3)
+ “Hail mighty Hekate of thresholds, many-named goddess of roads and crossroads, gate-mistress, patroness of travelers and of the lost; Solar and Saturnian, bearer of chains who dissolves that which binds us…” + Hello my loves. In this first of three short updates about new ongoing projects, I want to share an experience that is…
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Be Not Afraid
Order, Chaos and Calendrical Observances “Baby I was afraid before But I’m not afraid Anymore!” -Belinda Carlisle (1) We are haunted by the Past; by nexus points of the choices we have made; by their crucial, far-reaching, often unforeseen consequences upon our lives. Until we absolve ourselves of our histories, the outcomes we perceive as…
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Of Sun and Stinging Stars
Hello folks, I am still enjoying a shadowy afterglow of October’s three- night Prayer To the Moon working (linked HERE ), as well as the energetic pressure-washing of the lunar eclipse earlier this month. I will be releasing a full transcript of the Prayer rite soon, but I am also excited about two new lines…
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Lunar Salutations and Hallowed Howls
– – “When the spirits ask ‘who are you?’, you better have a damn good answer.” – Aaron Leitch (on Glitch Bottle podcast episode 10 Aug 8 2017) … Hello my friends, and Happy October! It is Autumn in Portland and although the weather here is still warm most days, other harbingers of the season…
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Twisting and Growing, Glistening and Glowing
“Time is ever an accelerating force and as the evening air here deepens into end-of-summer coolness some fresh starts are beginning to ripen.”View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Solar – Martial Storms
.. It is strange and satisfying to be home, down the slope of the old volcano, fixing garden beds, pulling buried bricks out of the yard at odd points, wrestling the plants and the ground under them. Cutting roots, turning earth to earth; everything’s changed again and I’m feeling changed too. The intense heat here…
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The Cannibal Hymn
“The most powerful force in the Universe is nostalgia.” -Peter T. Struck (1) Are we in an age of contraction? Certainly there are warring agendas at work, unsleeping, insidious; insisting on drawing the perimeters around who we are and what we are, where we come from and where we are going. Shots ring out. The…
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Hubris, Breakdown, Transition and Restitution
_ My friends. Sometimes it’s hard to keep our lamps lit. The flame flickers and snuffs, light falters. I’m writing this amidst a particularly violent stretch of days, even by the standards of this particularly violent nation in which I live. I used to say that in other countries people kill each other over their…