• The True Faith is the life of the follower, without it he is nothing, with it he has contained something of all creation. Robert Cochrane
    "The Faith of the Wise", published in Pentagram (4), November 1965

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  • Someday I Will Be Doing Research Again
    Until that point apparently I will just pop in once a year or so and remind people that it is the Opet season, a time when we show civic support for our broader communities here at Peaceful Awakenings’ Take On Kemetic Social Values. If anyone wants to join me, The Emboatening Crew on Kiva is […]
  • Opet Again
    Just popping in to remind everyone that with the Opet season upon us again, the Emboatening Crew is still rolling to support Kiva loans. (My office renovations are going well if slowly, so who knows if that means I’ll get more work done when they’re done.)
  • CowOfGold Moving
    An update on my previous post: Cow of Gold will have a new home here when the maintainer has a chance to put up the site again (with some revisions, apparently).

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  • Hills of the Horizon: The Past is Another Country
    The problem with extrapolation from history is that nothing is testable. The evolution of a religion over time is not a predictable and easily comprehensible thing, where we can look at a point in time and say, "It was like this then, so it would be like that now." The process of deciding what needs […]

Things My Ancestors Tell Me

The way of the witch is the way of the power that must be hidden. It is about holding on to sovereignty in a world that does not want you to have it – you, the specific you, the one who the structures deny.

Why do you keep silent? Because when your work is hidden, […]

March 20th, 2016 | Category: Ancestors, My Actual Practice, Personal Practice, Witchcraft | Comments are closed

David Bowie

Earlier today I described Bowie as “the regenerating polymorphous changeling heart of experimental glam rock, with a side of acting”. And theorised that that was a part of why perhaps the second-most common reaction I’m seeing to his passing is perhaps best encapsulated by John Scalzi’s, “Part of me genuinely believed he was an alien […]

January 11th, 2016 | Category: Personal Practice, Pop Culture, Theology | One comment - (Comments are closed)

The Gate Opens Both Ways

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about life and death. Sex and death. Those sorts of things.

The concepts of sex and death are linked in so many places, in so many cultures – not all of them, of course, but enough so that I think there is an awareness of an essential truth: that […]

December 3rd, 2015 | Category: My Actual Practice, Theology | One comment - (Comments are closed)

I’ve been busy

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to be doing here and in the associated stuff, and getting things done. A lot of my efforts have been going into the setup for […]

November 12th, 2015 | Category: News, Personal Practice, Projects | Comments are closed

My Cup of Tea: Learning Ways To The Gods

Every so often I see someone asking – or have someone ask me directly – for advice on how to get to know a Power better.

This is a thing that I do.

First of all, I let my research impulses run a little wild. I collect all the bibs and bobs of information I […]

January 3rd, 2015 | Tags: , , , | Category: Techniques | Comments are closed
 
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