The Trouble with Rights
“The trouble with rights is that they don’t always apply to everyone equally. The idea that they do is a mere fiction, and a fiction that serves the interests of the dominant classes in society.”
Europeans and Omicron: The Children of Hercules
This pandemic isn’t a random mutation of Nature. It’s a living product of imperial imagination
Gaulish Polytheism & Anti-Fascism
There has been a tug-of-war between those who want to use the Gods as tools of oppression and those who see them as a path towards liberation for as long as there has been reconstructionism.
All that Which Mini Ponds Can Teach
It’s astounding how little the average citizen knows about nature and their local ecosystems. It has become easier for us to imagine a mosquito that is genetically engineered to be sterile, than to learn about which animals in our area are their natural predators.
Siren Song & Shipwreck ~ Passages Across the Sea
I could have listened to her forever, so vast her experience, so full her life. Her words raised goosebumps as she spoke about her early life, “I know what it’s like to be a refugee in a strange country,” she told us, “I know what it’s like to be really hungry.”
This Mossland Will Conquer
This mossland will conquer its bounds / growing millimetre by millimetre a year…
Tree Folklore for The Spirit Season
Trees are symbols of this cycle, of this ever turning wheel. They signify the seasons, and show the incremental changes that occur as the wheel creaks ever onwards; the blossom of spring, the lush green of early summer, the fruits of late summer and early autumn. The dramatic colour show and loss that mark late autumn and the bare branches and evergreens of winter.
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The Challenge of Earth-based Paganism in the Social Media Age
At the time of writing this article, the #witchtok on Tiktok has more views than #biden, the current president of the United States. This is quite clearly a shocking development, one that those who worked in metaphysical stores in the 1990s never would’ve anticipated.
Waco Revisited: A Critique of Violence Against New Religious Movements
From Aidan Simardone
Sacred Hunter: A Tale for the Eve of Samhain
What I am advocating is a radical reappraisal of how we relate to our food, whether animal, vegetable, or both.
Brazil’s most effective anti-fascist strategy
In a world where politicians lie constantly, companies continue to wreck the Earth and our food is processed with things we can’t pronounce, we ought to think carefully about who has our faith.
An Invocation to Self
And of course, prayer need not always be verbal. It can be as simple as standing barefoot on the grass or listening to the birdsong at sunrise. But even from this must come action to protect those very things that give solace, that cannot protect themselves. In this way, this communion with this other becomes something that is reciprocal.
Four Songs in the Autumn | a collection of poems
The cycle cannot be escaped;
All there is to do is coax out words and coat
The atavistic sorrow
COURSE: Land...Loss & Reconnection, with Alley Valkyrie
An upcoming course from Alley Valkyrie!
The Tyranny of Machine Meaning
We don’t really have a good way of measuring the effects of social media on how we conceive of ourselves, despite intuitively understanding that it’s not good for us.