freak flags and future home comings

I think I am what my mother would have called “a dreamer”, and my father frequently referred to as a “dead loss”, and what decades later would be termed a “slacker”. I was also never quite at home, though I had a capacity to be luxuriantly at home in the most squalid of chance moments. [...]

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How many ways led here?

Sometimes we forget where we’ve been. Sometimes we forget what led here, and sometimes we rewrite our histories. We selectively miss out stuff, and join up the dots to make what is actually a different picture. With something as varied as Paganism you might say it’s almost unavoidable, but it can be a real loss. [...]

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Sovereign Snakes and Sunshine

Serpents and snakes have a varied but resonant pedigree within the human imagination. Their undulating motion suggests a power supple, muscular and sensuous, like the natural movements of water, wind and sand made flesh. Heroes battle them, shape shifters turn into them, magicians and healers master them, yogis sit enlightened beneath their raised and unfurled [...]

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Magic, time and space

I could never quite jive with the idea of magic as an energy driven thing that you wilfully did to the world, couched in near ballistic metaphors. These were the metaphors of an old age, practically an industrial age – hydraulic, force driven, a kind of subtle mechanics in which magic impacted our world and [...]

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