Thoughts taken to paper or, in this case, to the cloud.

The Beginner’s Guide To Time Travel

Time is a river. If you learn to navigate its many currents, you can travel to some amazing places. You cannot beat a river into submission; you must surrender to…

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Ecliptick

As any half-decent, self-respecting witch or wizard will tell you, eclipses are jam-packed with metaphysical madness. And opportunity. We just had a New Moon solar eclipse, the night before Beltane…

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The Sheppard Show

Reality is a fickle bitch, innit she? One of my favorite subgenres in entertainment is the increasingly popular one of odd, metaphysical, sometimes downright spiritual events within otherwise relatively grounded…

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Ides of March

Items that (I prefer to think) Hekate has placed in my path during my daily dog walks: One long, rusted nailA wooden "heart" (a knot of wood that looks rather…

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100 Percent Lit

Hekate! Kenaz - the “k” rune, or hard “c”.Hekas - Greek, meaning literally “one hundred”.Hekate/Hecate - Pronounced with a soft “h” and silent “e”, more akin to “Ekat”. The meaning…

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Oh, Hel

Hey Ladies! Hel, Hell, and Hades Hagalaz Who the Hell? Hel - Norse; Rules a place called Hel, the Underworld. Female.Hades - Greek; Rules a place called Hades, the Underworld.…

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To Sleipnir, Perchance To Dream

The Hel-Gate Sleipnir is the eight-legged horse of Odin. Also, the child of Loki (Loki being, in fact and oddly enough, Sleipnir’s mother). When Hermod journeyed to the Underworld, Hel, to…

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Open the Portal

The Perthro Rune Perthro! The most mysterious of all the runes - so little is known, in fact, that the common divinatory usage amongst would-be fortune-tellers and rune-chuckers is "The…

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Life’s A Birch

Berkana! Bjarkan, Beorc, Bjork...no, I'm not muttering gibberish! I refer of course to the "B" rune of the Elder and Younger Futharks. Its literal meaning is "birch". Amongst its esoteric,…

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