The Girl in the Leather Mask
This is an article from Carl's previous blog, Conversations Across the Table, originally posted on Sunday, May 08, 2005.

The Magical Art of the Well Worn Path
Follow Mickie Mueller, artist of The Well Worn Path, as she chronicles the magical artistic process she shared with Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor to create this unique divinatory deck..

Religious Groups Seek Faith-Based Profits
Most religious groups aren't known for running businesses, beyond the usual bake sale or pancake breakfast. But today a growing number are creating for-profit enterprises, seeking to raise more money for good works or to create jobs in their communities. Encouraging them is the Small Business Administration, which has hosted wor.

Based in Scottish tradition. Scotican Wicca: Fairly new tradition with a blend of several traditions: kitchen witch,pictish, and ceremonial. Seax-Wica or Saxon Wicca: Founded in 1973, by Raymond Buckland. Based on Saxon traditions. Coven members can work robed or sky clad, and can initiated through self study. Solitary Witch: A witch who practices the Craft alone. A Solitary may chose to follow any tra More

You can get some great pumpkin recipes at Morbid Outlook (http://www.morbidoutlook.com/lifestyle/a. and all sorts of fall treats at The Cauldrons site (http://www.ecauldron.com/samhainfood.php. The Witches Voice has a pile of Samhain article at http://www.witchvox.com/holidays/xsamhai. including an article on the stereotypical links between Halloween, Samhain, and Satanism. The Samhain page at Wicca.com (http://www.wicca.com/celtic/akasha/samha. has a short list of correspon More

Known as the "Herb of Peace," pennyroyal given to two fighting partners will cause them to stop fighting. Used in ritual, pennyroyal adds strength to you and your working. Use Wood Betony for protection, purification, and love. Betony is added to purification mixtures and incenses. It is traditional to burn betony in a bonfire on Midsummer and then jump through the smoke to purify the body of ills and evil. Betony is also said to help More

The Skeptical Review -- Who Believes in Magick Anymore?
Black Sheep (n.): a highborn person who has gone against the conventions of family; a rogue, outcast, or scoundrel. I love magick, or magic, or majik, or however else my grammatically eccentric brethren might spell it. I am not eager to argue semantics. Who really cares when the practice remains pure? I find it to be an Art, a Craf.

At War With The Mystics
This isn’t going to be another one of those extended rants where I’m trying to disguise the fact I was too lazy to do any real work this week, so I had to fill this space with a list of all the stupid things the Christian Civic League of Maine did lately. I usually save that column for the dog days of summer. Although, Lord kno.

Enclosures as a Basis for Pagan Ethics
There came a conversation that jogged my memory some time ago, and brought me to a Venn diagram with the individual and family in the center, and then concentric circles outward, the first circle labeled Utlanning, and so on down the line to Varelse, that I had written down in one of my little black books, and I find myself referri.

Who's Afraid Of Harry Potter?
Unless you are “He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken,” I don’t think you have anything to fear from Harry Potter. And yet, there appears to be a large number of people who have this irrational fear of Potter or, more importantly, of witchcraft. I find this fear unfathomable. Most recently it has come to the forefront in Gwinnett .