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Monday, June 30th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Regular readers will have noticed that our usual post-a-day momentum has not been maintained for the month of June.
Along with the summer come a variety of events which make it near impossible to sustain this posting rate, such as our [...]
It’s not fair!
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Globe and Mail recently ran an article in their Life section titled “How to set an unfair rule (yes, it’s acceptable)” about perceived double standards, a sentiment I encounter quite a bit among friends, co-workers and human beings in general.
The article, written by clinical psychologist Anthony Wolf, looks at the rules set for
Two new books from Teitan Press by Jack Parsons and Frederick Hockley
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged [...]
Review: Women of Power, by Jaq D. Hawkins
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Women of Power: The Woman As Magus, by Jaq D. Hawkins
CapallBann Publishing, 186163241X, (153 pp. including appendices, bibliography and index), 2006
“…most of the books on ceremonial magic continue to be written by men, despite significant numbers of female members existing in ceremonial magical Orders.”
Jaq D. Hawkins is the author of several books on magick. Her [...]
Magical correspondences and social values
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Dr Brendan Cathbad Myers is the author of several books on radical Paganism and Druidry, his latest, The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us, will be published by O Books in July 2008.
A spiritual path is, among other things, a way [...]
Summer solstice
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Solstice occurs at different times around the world, though here in Toronto the summer solstice usually occurs on the 21st or 22nd of June.
Like an ancient recess bell, it sounds the kickoff to summer holidays.
I’ve written about our Feasts before, dinner parties my husband and I host for our friends on the solstices and equinoxes. [...]
News: Pessoa-Crowley letters to be auctioned upsets Portugal’s literati
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Fernando Pessoa is said to be one of the greatest Portuguese poets of modern times; indeed, some say the four greatest poets, due to his penchant for writing under alter egos with distinct literary personalities all their own. Though when he died in 1935 he was virtually unknown.
When the poet died in obscurity [...]