New post: My new book – Dark Mirror - Dark Mirror: the inner work of witchcraft By Yvonne Aburrow Available now from Lulu Inner work is a name commonly given to the inner processes that happen in ritual. It can also mean the transformation of the psyc... ow.ly/ovIl50gqouA

New post: The landscape of gender - My preferred metaphor for gender is a scatterplot (not a spectrum). If one’s assigned gender is at point (a,b) but one’s actual gender is at point (q,r) then one needs to change to match one’s actual gender. If one’... ow.ly/nwl050grRTT

New post: Top ten movie and TV wizards - Since Hollywood and TV don’t seem to have heard of male witches,  I thought it would be fun to make a list of my top ten wizards. There are quite a lot to choose from, what with the Harry Potter universe, the D... ow.ly/cLYR50gvOhg

New post: Self care for activists - This is an excerpt from my new book, The Night Journey: witchcraft as transformation. I am sharing it because I have noticed an awful lot of activists on my Twitter feed expressing pain, rage, and exhaustion. Accord... ow.ly/VaMr50gwEv2

New post: Ritual roles and archetypes - Ritual roles are often allocated according to gender, but this doesn’t need to be the case. Allocating roles by gender seems a lazy shorthand for the archetypes you want the ritual role to express. There are so ... ow.ly/nKFj50gzpOP

New post: Never again - I don’t know how to write this in a way that will convince you if you’re an opponent of gun control. But I have to write something. There have been eighteen mass shootings in the USA this year already, and it’s only February. W... ow.ly/sjDW50gBbHe

New post: First thoughts, second thoughts, and third thoughts - I’ve often said that Terry Pratchett was one of the greatest Pagan theologians, although he wasn’t a Pagan. In his books Small Gods, Pyramids, and the series about the witches, he often e... ow.ly/KyVi50gGIWd

New post: Fictional and constructed religions - What can fictional religions tell us about real religions? Are constructed religions just as valid as ancient ones? What about real-world religions based on fictional ones? One impetus for creating const... ow.ly/V46x50gMjtg

New post: Spring Equinox - After several years of excellent research by Adrian Bott, we now know the following things. Spring Equinox was not actually celebrated by ancient pagans in the British Isles; nor was it a fertility festival. There was probab... ow.ly/dP0450gS26l

Move over Easter Bunny, here comes the Easter Fox po.st/LbG1n4 via Dowsing for Divinity in accordance with prophecy, eh fs books

Dowsing for Divinity Thank you so much for this! A truly refreshing piece of writing. I have been writing for a while about it being much more complicated than ‘the Christians stole our festivals’ rhetoric that we have grown so used to. There is much mending to be done between people of spirit.