A few days ago, I spent some time sitting in front of the Buddha in the picture to the right. He is part of the Royal Ontario Museum’s collection, and is perhaps my favourite. He used to sit in a quite, darkened hall, but with the renovations he is now is a light, open space that no longer has the feeling of calm found is is previous home. As I sat in front of this Buddha I wrote. I wrote about what I needed to do for myself (which was confirm a doctor appointment… baby steps), what I needed to…
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The navigation menu problem has been fixed. Yay! New articles are being written and should be posted in a couple of days.
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It appears that a plugin has broken my navigation menu. I’m not sure how to fix it right now. In the meantime, you can get around the site by using the site map. With luck, I will have the navigation menu running by the end of the day.
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A while back I went on a bit of a Crowley binge. I wasn’t reading his works or studying his Tarot deck, instead I was studying him. I read three different biographies in an attempt to learn more about the man behind all of those nasty, naughty stories. I wanted to know if he really was the “Wickedest Man in the World”, or if he just got a bum rap from the press. It is true that I could have gone directly to the source, reading all of Crowley’s works in order to get a better view of the man. …
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As I was sitting down to type up some new material for the website, I realized that it had gone missing. To be fair, these were notes from before I had the baby, written more than a year ago. Goodness knows where they have gone. Normally I’m very organized, but as anyone with a child knows, chaos follows babies. I’ll try to find the notes, or do my best to replicate them. I’m still aiming to have a couple of new reviews up by the end of this week. I’m also considering offering free one-card Tarot readings again, via email.…
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I came across something in The Sacred Tarot by C.C. Zain (that Church of Light book I mentioned the other day) …The truly scientific man does not hold what he discovers, or what others have discovered, merely to benefit a chosen few… It has always seemed to me a colossal piece of selfishness for any group of men, if they really possessed information that might be beneficial to all mankind, to hoard it for themselves alone. I hold, therefore, that secrecy in any matter that will aid the soul in gaining knowledge of its true relations to the universe, or…
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My grandfather was a very religious man. He became an elder at the church we attended, and lived his faith until he died of MS at the age of 69. He did a lot of things in his life, like raising three daughters and laying communications lines during WWII. I think , though, he was perhaps most proud of the cross that he and two other men erected on the hill overlooking the Devil’s Punch Bowl in Stoney Creek, Ontario. I have a lot of documentation about the whole process of getting permission to erect the cross. I have bills…
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I have written in the past about my concerns about channelled books and about information passed on by those who have left the path, but now I’m wondering about those works which clearly contain “bad history” and other things that are widely known to have been disproved. Examples that come to mind here are Margaret Murray‘s works or that good old Ancient Potato Goddess featured in a book on Celtic spirituality published (and obviously not fact-checked) by everyone’s favourite new age publisher. Right now I’m reading The Sacred Tarot, a book published by The Church of Light (an occult organization…
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I’ve finally moved over the last page from the old site. Everything that was available on the old, purple site is now here. I will soon start setting up permanent redirects from the old site just to make sure that nothing disappears for anyone. I’m so happy to finally have everything moved! Now I can concentrate on writing new material. Thank goodness!
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Over the years that I have been aware of the greater Pagan community, I have seen some relatively well known spokespeople step away from Paganism and declare that their beliefs now lie in another direction. Some do this vocally, and insult Paganism on their way out the door, others do it quietly, making us wonder what caused them to change their minds. When the reason for leaving the community is because the person found a new faith, I am a bit surprised. I think that to be a spokesperson, either through teaching, writing or producing a podcast, one must be…