Toronto Pagans, tarot, sceptics, and blogging

Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

September’s another busy month: Pagan Pride days, the beginning of Ganesh Chaturthi, mainstream publishing begins its big Fall push, and the autumnal equinox and its surrounding festivities loom ever closer.

• Jason Pitzl-Waters comments on Canada’s growing awareness of Paganism in public institutions.  Toronto Celtic Reconstructionalist and all around great guy, Brian Walsh is noted  as a University of Toronto chaplain along with Catherine Starr in a recent edition of The Wild Hunt‘s  regular round up, “(Pagan) News of Note“.

• Renowned tarot author Mary K. Greer, in a post titled “Prediction or Insight?“, looks at a tarot reading provided in one of her classes, and the dramatic events which occurred shortly after the reading.  Read it in Mary K. Greer’s Tarot Blog.

• In “Why I Leave Skeptics Alone“, posted in his blog Augoeides, Thelemite and ritual magician Scott Michael Stenwick offers two reasons why he embraces sceptical criticism of his practices.

• In her blog, sarahintampa, Sarah Perez briefly explains the difference between blogging, journaling and keeping an online diary in “Are You Blogging or Journaling?“  Ok, so this isn’t occult-themed, but even so, these dinstinctions are important in understanding the drive and purpose behind a site with a steady content stream.

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