When you’re a witch, certain popular turns of phrase just hit you differently. “Like magic, this happened…” “I can’t just make this happen, I’m not a magician!” “I wish I had a magic wand so I could make your pain go away.” The popular depiction of magic is that it…

If you are living a life where you are having authentic and connected relationships with other humans who you care about and who care about you, you’re going to get hurt. This is not a possibility, it is a stone-cold guarantee. …

WARNING: This post contains spoilers to all of the first three episodes of “And Just Like That.” Also, I know being a TV critic isn’t my usual bag, but I reserve the right to be multidimensional and so here we are….. I’ll admit straight up that in the 1990’s when…

When I teach beginners, the first thing that I tell them is that the Craft is a big, wide place, and there are lots and lots of different kinds of witches and lots of different kinds of pagans. I tell them about the Rule of 100 — nothing is 100…

When you’re on a big campus, in a museum, a zoo, or a shopping center, it’s a comforting thing to see — the kiosk with the big diagram that maps the entire facility you are in. And there, right there, you can see it — the big, friendly dot with…

They were a perfectly nice couple on the surface of things, and when I first befriended them they were happy to share advice and tell me about their lives. But as time went on I noticed that they liked to take digs at people who had something they didn’t. If…

“Do as I do” is not a leadership style, it’s a cop out — A dear friend whose mind I respect deeply recently made an observation that joined Granny’s quote from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld — “The only evil is when you treat people like things” — with Grace Hopper’s legendary quip that “you manage things, but you lead people.” In the course of the…

The Talking Heads Wrote the Perfect Lammas Song — We have been living in the midst of the bright, chugging energy of summer. Hot days. Long nights. Some of us are enjoying new ability to move about the community, courtesy of vaccines. We are all of us in a rhythm that has been building since those first halting moments…

I should start by explaining that I have been a student and practitioner of Tarot even longer than I have been a witch. I have been in a relationship with the cards for more than 35 years. …