I’ve been busy polishing our ritual script for Samhain (pronounced “Sow-win”), which we will celebrate the 30th.  I hope every other Pagan reader of this blog will have an opportunity to observe and celebrate this time as well.  I think it is one of our two most important Sabbats.

I took a walk a few days ago out on the Rodota Trail, a lovely foot and bicycle path linking Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.  It goes mostly through a oak savannah filled with big spreading gnarly old oaks.  This time of year most everything else is a golden brown, lying dormant until winter’s rains arrive. …

Books can be great in several ways.  Some encapsulate the spirit of their time.  Some grow in profundity, as the reader returns to them again and again, marveling at how much the author is saying that had been missed in earlier encounters.  Some make break-throughs in established fields of knowledge.  And some, a very few,…

To my mind the presentations by Tony Mierzwicki, Brandy Williams and Don Frew constituted the meat of the Theurgicon gathering, but two other presentations added additional dimensions.  Diana Young (I was unable to find a link to her – perhaps someone can help)  spoke from a ceremonial magick perspective rooted in the Golden Dawn and…

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