Zora Neale Hurston: Hoodoo Heroine
According to Google, today is Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday, an early popular documentarian of hoodoo, voodoo, and other folk magics. If you have never read any of Hurston’s delicious stories or...
View ArticleShe Holds the Scissors
Use this as a neat waning moon activity. Cut something out that’s superfluous. You’ll feel better. I’m the Withershins Crone, my sister spins your existence, and I cut it short. She adds things to...
View ArticleStraight Laced and Well Embraced
Happy Ostara! Psst, come here and give me a hug. Can you feel what’s hugging me as you hug me? If you don’t know what that is, then your ignorance about foundation garments is appalling. Some days...
View ArticleBeware of the Jezebel Spirit! A Pagan Service Announcement
I don’t often repost blogs from other people, but I came across this tonight when I was taking a break from other projects and doing some research for upcoming “Barbed Pentacle” posts, and I have to...
View ArticleLife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals…” —Charge of the Goddess by Issac Bonewits “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The...
View ArticleSusannah Martin Memorial Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Martin The Witch’s Daughter It was the pleasant harvest time, When cellar-bins are closely stowed, And garrets bend beneath their load, And the old...
View ArticleNow Accepting Bids for Perchta Power Project Soap
Soap can be used in many different magical applications. With that said, I am currently accepting bids from soap makers to a make custom batch of soap for The Barbed Pentacle and the Perchta Power...
View ArticleLuscious Litha
For the Yule half of this story: http://barbedpentacle.com/2013/12/ancient-dance/ For more on the Ivy Girl:...
View ArticleLego My Logos!
I finished Logos this afternoon by John Neeleman, and I have to say it’s a long read. Most of that length, however,is necessary as a story vehicle. Neeleman takes you on a walking tour of the main...
View ArticleCover My Body in the Bonnie Blue Flag
This post is part of the annual Pagan Values Blogject: https://paganvalues.wordpress.com/ Because of the delicate nature of this post, I’m taking off my shit-kicker boots and putting on my pointe...
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