Category: Reflections
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Celebrating the Seasons Without the Wheel
Wicca is one paradigm of magic, but it is one that also has its fair share of drawbacks and controversies. One of these is a very distinct preference for Northern Hemisphere and general Eurocentricity. This can be seen in the Wheel of the Year, which is based off of a specific climate in a very…
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Addressing Toxic Productivity and Hustle Culture
I am not 100% that this fits neatly into the usual content for this blog. At the same time, it does fit into many of the themes I discuss on here. In many ways, I consider my approach to crafting to be very similar to taking Pop Culture Magic seriously. First, many people disagree with…
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Understanding Your Nature
There are countless witchcraft or occult books that say more or less a variation on ‘To Know Thyself is to Know the Way.’ This was also a canned phrase used in a very unfortunate and cultish circle that I used to be a member of—but managed to escape. And what’s curious is that a lot…
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Gnosis and Mysteries
The vast majority of the time, when someone on the internet says that (in whatever arrangement of words they please) that they are very special and no one else is as special as them, and only they have the ability to understand the mysteries of the cosmos, they’re full of shit. But, when it comes…
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Personal Reflections : The Nature of our Magic
This is less an instructional or educational post, and more self-reflective. I think that it may be a fact of human nature within our current culture to be dissatisfied with what we have. There is a saying that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But, I wonder if this…