As I was meditating at my altar this morning I happened to look up to see my witch’s sphere hanging on my witch’s ladder. Many of you won’t know what that means. So let’s start with some simple definitions: Witch’s Ladder: This is a stick or bar hanging horizontally from which magical tools and talismans […]
Testosterone
I thought it was just that I was depressed after the passing of my wife. Then I thought that I just had a flu bug or something. Then I started noticing that overall my energy was bottoming out. Then I began to worry that I perhaps had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Now I know differently. Until […]
“Toxic Masculinity”
This is not going to be what you think it will be about. Not entirely anyway. You see, I do indeed recognise that there is a thing called “toxic masculinity”. But I also recognise that there is a thing called “toxic femininity”. Both are equally destructive. Recently I had a mother and teenage son in […]
Ink
Yesterday I was having lunch with a good friend. She was telling me that she had shown her mother a photo she had taken of me a while back. Her mother immediately got frightened and judgmental because of the tattoos that were on my forearms. Imagine how she would have responded had she seen all […]
The Round Table
Over the many years of my practice in Shamanism I have encountered a plethora of opinions and attitudes about who is and is not allowed to practice. The term “Cultural Appropriation” has been tossed around numerous times since it became a popular thing to accuse people of committing. The common idea that a person must […]