My book, The Witch’s Path: Advancing Your Craft at Every Level, is out on Wednesday! Written during a period of personal burnout, it’s a book about taking next steps as a witch (but really, could apply to magicians and occultists more broadly). Whether you’re an exhausted group leader, an armchair occultist who needs a shove, or …
Continue reading Learning and Unlearning Witchcraft: Can Bad Info Ruin Your Practice?
It often surprises people to learn that I write my books and blogs by hand. Computers and phones have become so ubiquitous that I think it just doesn’t occur to us that this might be an option that some writers still choose—it sounds so antiquated and needlessly difficult. Maybe even pretentious. I admit that I …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0cMEhtPbY&lc=z22xyn4i3xi3tnsukacdp4350adbfrzmwincqs1wsz5w03c010c Look! After almost ten years I finally learned how to make video thumbnails. Good for me. I get lots of comments on Instagram with folks asking about my the leather journal I'm using right now. It seemed to make the most sense to just make a video! You can find the link to the …
There’s this thing I do that I’m trying to get a handle on. It’s like it’s some inherent part of my personality that I just can’t shake, and it gets me in trouble: I take the things I’m passionate about and I turn them into work. There’s this maxim that’s been floating around forever that …
Continue reading An Ode to My Mindless Job, or I’m Glad I’m Not a Professional Witch
I’ve been pretty quiet on the Internet lately. I haven’t blogged, haven’t posted to Facebook, and have just generally been keeping to myself these days. The Internet is pretty amazing a lot of the time, but I think sometimes we use it as a replacement for actually getting out and doing things. I find that …
What even was my New Years goal? Something about songwriting, right? I’m usually pretty good about this sort of thing, but winter has revolved entirely around getting my manuscript in on time (YASSSSSS). Nothing I played sounded good to me, and I felt guilty every time I sat down with a guitar. Oh yeah, and …
Yesterday was my last day of student teaching, and I’m sitting at a Starbucks drinking liquefied sugar and gleefully clacking away on my laptop for the first time in months. God I missed this. Working really gets in the way of working you know? I actually feel like blogging. Good thing, too, because I’m writing …
Continue reading I’m Writing a Fucking Book and Drinking Lots of Coffee
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