The Grandiose and The Powerless
We all emerge from the same material, if only the soil of the earth, and so we are all composed of the body and of that god.
Psychotherapeutic Access and the Contradictions of Progressive Neoliberalism
You can’t use capitalist methods to provide free or accessible public services.
On Falling
What I'm inviting is for us to take our psyches and our power back from derangement and doom.
Talking to the Gods Doesn’t Make You Special: Power, Money, and Ethics in Spirituality and Wellness Professions
Whenever you are working with a practitioner who displays only confidence without curiosity, beware. When they only tell you what is true about you without asking you to check it out for yourself, without listening when you disagree, then they have dismissed your own self-authority and self-expertise. How can you trust a person to be accountable to their shadow when they do not accept feedback or accountability?
Saturn, In the Time of Putrefaction
My responsibility is not to tell Black people how to protest. My responsibility is to tell white spiritual people that, when we say things like this, we are assholes.
The Wounded King Surrenders to the Land
Today there's going to be a conjunction of Saturn and Pluto, including a conjunction with the Sun, so astrologically it's a Big Deal. Many astrologers I follow observe that whenever there is a Saturn and Pluto conjunction there also tends to be a spike in Fascism. In service of this I wrote the following allegorical ritual poem that draws on the myths of the Fisher King / Wounded King.
In the Midnight Hour: On Mattering, Will, and Hope
As we sang, “In the midnight hour / I can feel your Power,” late into the night I felt my will in manifestation. Here was an experience I wanted to have, and through my actions and intent I created it. My will was powerful.
The Prison and The Key: Pagan Perspectives on Suicide (Part 2)
Part 2 of a 2 part series on the painful subject of suicide. It includes the sections Suicide as a Systemic Illness, Supporting the Loved Ones of Those Who Died by Suicide, and Spiritual Contexts for Suicide.
The Prison and The Key: Pagan Perspectives on Suicide (Part 1)
The 1st part of a 2 part series on the extremely painful subject of suicide. We hope this can help everyone who has had to deal with it one way or another. This section includes an Intro and The Value of Autonomy.
Alchemizing the Lead of Masculinity
2018 was a fascinating year. Its subtitle seemed to be: “Men are trash.”
The Cresting Wave
We’re all in a building that’s on fire, and most of us are wearing blindfolds. Spiritual practice helps us take the blindfold off. We’re still in the building, but if we can see, there’s more we can do.