How to cleanse, charge, and consecrate crystals and other magickal tools, part 1
Cleansing, charging, and consecrating items for magickal use is one of my regular practices. This article is about cleansing your crystals and other magickal tools.
New year, same me
Happy New Year, family, friends, and dear readers. How was your New Year’s? Have you made resolutions? As a Wiccan, I have three New Years: Samhain, New Year, and Imbolc, and they have very different vibes. Samhain is a Gaelic festival that falls halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. It marks the …
Where to go after Tumblr bans adult content
Tumblr will ban adult content on 17 December. The move is aimed at eradicating porn on the platform and comes a couple of weeks after Tumblr was removed from Apple’s iOS App Store after child pornography was discovered on the Verizon-owned microblogging website. It’s a change that may affect writers of erotica, fan-fiction writers and …
LoveFest 2018, the Second Life Lovecraft festival
I returned to Second Life just in time for the 7th annual LoveFest, one of the virtual world’s literary events. LoveFest celebrates the work of American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. The 10-day festival takes place around 20 August, the day Lovecraft was born. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was virtually …
Sausages, onions, and potatoes: the foods of Australian democracy
Australia has a new Prime Minister. Scott Morrison is the sixth PM in ten years. Morrison became PM through a leadership spill, a declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election, or when a rival to the existing leader calls for a spill. In Australia’s parliamentary system, you vote …
Living in a cyber-dystopia
At the start of the year, I set a reading goal based on how many books I read the previous year. I don’t define what kinds of books I’ll read, but a pattern sometimes emerges. This year is turning out to be a year of dystopian fiction and cyberpunk, not just in books, but also …