The Magical Witch (Gleamings from the Golden Dawn)

Given yesterday's post, I do not want people to believe that I completely ignore the initiated version of late Victorian era astrology. ...

A spell involving a Jupiter Lightning Glyph and two monkeys. Happy New Year! And given that it is the first day of the New Year (2013)...

Truth in advertising strikes the Hogwarts House system. One of the difficulties about trying to decide what Golden Dawn Order to join is...

 Fuck you---I am Cat. [This post was originally written in April 2012, and was not posted because I decided to be nice. It is being po...

As some of you know, Bast Temple has been experiencing some major website issues. The issues started during the worst part of semester...a...

One of the traditions that the BIORC holds to, enforced by our secrecy oath, is that only the individual member themselves have the right to...

First, the disclosures--- For those who are curious, I came out of the broom closet in 1978. I have been openly Wiccan ever since. Sever...

This post is inspired by a couple of comments that Neo G. made to a previous post. One of the danger signs that I have seen over the years...

One of the questions that I often kick around is: How much change has to happen before a Order becomes a new Order? Is changing the Grade...

Another thing I realized reading the internet today is given the wide views about the Secret Chiefs, that it would be useful for some to kno...

And yes, for some strange reason, the Order that I belong to has to actually approve of my resignation. But I am not worried; if Griffin is ...

Awhile back, I was informed by Microsoft that they were ending their Small Business Live web hosting and replacing it with another web hosti...

Looking around I realized this morning that the long-promised Bast Temple (BIOGD/BIORC) correspondence course is going to suffer another del...

One of the things about being a writer is that (in theory) one becomes aware of the fact that labels are important; people think of names an...

When Robert Zink got "expelled" by a vote of the Adepts in his Order , I knew it was only a matter of time before he would issue a...

In the blogosphere, occasionally you run across a conversation that is being conducted across several blogs as different bloggers decide to ...

Exactly who is Morgan Drake Eckstein? Occasionally, even I wonder about that. The short answer is that I am a forty-one (forty-two come Se...