Tag: pagan
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Book Review: A Circle Round by Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill
This is a pretty old book – it’s so old I don’t even have it anymore, but I have never forgotten it. When I had my first child in 2000, there weren’t really a lot of parenting books for people like me. When my husband brought this home, I can’t tell you how thrilled I…
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Book Review: Witchcraft for Beginners by Mari Silva
I know I complain a lot about everything being for beginners for someone who keeps getting books with Beginner in the title. Ditto Wicca… So what happened was this – I got myself a cheap used kindle as I hate reading things on the computer, my phone doesn’t have enough free memory, my nook isn’t…
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Meat, Privilege, and Personal Responsibility
I’ve known a few pagans who are vegetarians and vegans for their reasons which are all quite good. For them. I am not and would really struggle with being one, honestly. But, it would be a bigger dilemma for me if I didn’t take steps to ensure my meat eating was as ethical as it…
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Book Review: The Morrigan by Morgan Daimler
This is a very short review for a very short book. I think, if I had realized how short the Pagan Portals books are, I might have held off on this one. Weighing in at 79 pages for us $10.95. I generally don’t have that kind of budget when I’m not spending holiday present money…
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Book Review: The House Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
The House Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock I got the audiobook – I would recommend, if this sounds like a good book for you, get the print – there’s a lot of interesting recipes and I’m going to have to go back through the book to write the ones I really want to try down. The…
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Book Review: The Book of Hedge Druidry by Joanna Van Der Hoeven
This was another audiobook – in this instance read by Coleen Marlo who did a perfectly serviceable job with it. I picked this particular book entirely because of the word Hedge. In many places, the hedge, the boundary, is metaphor for the line between this world and the beyond, the otherworlds. It’s one of the…
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Book Review: Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff
This is not a how to book, an instruction manual, or any sort of text book. This is a philosophical and theological meandering, a conversation between author and reader as equals, not really teacher and student. There are some marvelous insights and some flippant verbiage that makes its point well without a lot of negativity…
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Book Review: Seasons of a Magical Life by H Byron Ballard
I’ve been delving into books that have Appalachian roots for a bit now and to find that here was a happy accident. Appalachia may not speak to me in the same language as the Pacific Northwest or New England but it has a call all its own – a lilting, rural call. Instead of whale…
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Which Witch
There are who knows how many subsets of people who all claim the word witch. We’ve got green, kitchen, hearth, hedge, chaos, traditional, Gardnerian, Cabot, Sea, Water, solitary, folk, coven-based, cosmic, Celtic, Norse, Dianic, Hellenistic, and the list really does go on a while. And there are many who practice similar things but would entirely…
Witch of Crow Hollow 