Syncretic Electric: Community is More Than You
When you call yourself Pagan, you are claiming membership in that community and are making yourself beholden to it. Regardless of what Paganism represents to you, it extends beyond you, and you must be...
View ArticleThe Busy Witch: Stepping Outside Our Boundaries
Lots of things can change when you push your boundaries, and I’m still sifting through the continued effects of this stretching.
View ArticleThe Zen Pagan: The Only God to Whom Jupiter Must Bow
Boundaries in their role as both endings and beginnings are also on my mind because this will be my last column for Agora. The good news is that this is because The Zen Pagan will soon be its own...
View ArticleSeeking the Grail: Breaking and Ending
There's a moment in any relationship that I dread. I can feel it there on the horizon, like a itch just under my skin. At first, any relationship is great because we're meeting one another, getting to...
View ArticleSeeking the Grail: Negotiating Boundaries
Issues with boundaries come up a lot with leadership, but that's because they come up in life. Whether I'm joining a new group, or in a new relationship, boundaries have to be negotiated. If not, they...
View ArticleFull Frontal Magic: Breaking the Veil and the Politics of Spirituality
A prison has boundaries. We call them walls, but a wall or fence is a boundary that one or more parties decided to empower with force and in some cases violence. “The Veil” has become something more...
View ArticleThe Crow’s Nest: Samhain, Boundaries and Nettles
The Shadow Self is a Jungian concept. He theorized that we all have a “Shadow Self”, a dark side of ourselves we do not consciously acknowledge. Shadow work involves bringing the unconscious dark...
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