To me the Equinoxes Ostara and Mabon are particularly Pagan in their symbolism even though they have long been the least commonly celebrated of our contemporary sacred days.  Solstices were far easier to calculate and symbolized the great dualities of embodiment: life and death, light and dark.  Their history is ancient and world wide, at…

Three (now four) recent posts on the web have brought home the truth of the class war being waged in this country – by the corporate and financial aristocracy of privileged chislers against everyone else – with a cheering section of so-called “free-market” supporters who blind others, and are often themselves, singing rhapsodies about “the…

Almost every week I drive to the Bay Area to do some healing work where mainstream medicine has proven unsuccessful.  Afterwards I often join my friend and noted Wiccan Don Frew for dinner, The Daily Show, and stimulating conversation.  One evening he was describing the fascinating and very strange similarities between a wide variety of…

Christine O’Donnnell, the “Christian” right’s candidate for US Senator from Delaware reports she dated a witch and  did so  “on a Satanic altar.”  Very interesting at many levels beyond the likely possibility  that she made it up or embellished it beyond recognition. Let’s assume for the moment there is some truth in her words.  What…

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