I'll be leaving Facebook over this.

They censored my sharing, from a reputable news source, an important story about an ethnic minority that had to change their religion to accommodate globalist, economic factors. I think I was censored because of photographs of the locals. As an anthropologist and pagan, I'm furious.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41981430

So, I'll be at Paganicon 2017 in the Twin Cities next weekend. Is anybody else planning on attending? Have you been to any Pagan conventions?

I sometimes find that Neo-paganism is a stepping stone for Christians on their way to Atheism.  Certainly, one of the most monumental moments from my early days was letting go of the Christian belief -- not in the idea of God or prayer, but in context of my relationship to the world. Prime example:  If we reincarnate, my mother isn't "my" mother.  In Christianity, she only has one go around, and I am her child.  She may not be my mother next time, and I might not be her son.  Severing the…

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I attended a group, full-moon ritual last night; and, although it wasn't the greatest experience that I had, it was inspiring for greater work.

A real take away for me was attaching my sun-sign, Taurus, with a new totem.  I was presented with an image of a stout, broad animal with some kind of spike, and it came to me in several forms: Bull was in their, but also warthog and, most-notably, Rhinoceros.

It occurs to me that Rhinoceros is a new sacred cow for our…

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Goddess.com was an amazing place when I was a ritual-heavy solitairy occultist.  It was a place that I could go to communicate questions, which divination, meditation and prayer failed to resolve.  As I moved away from ritual to a more existential path, the role of this community to me ended up on the spiritual back-burner.

This year has been tumultuous, but fair.  Its crowning achievement, spiritually-speaking, has been finding the equivalent of a Coven.  With my ritual…

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