Occult Garden Parties

This post was originally written for The Many Pen-Names of Morgan Drake Eckstein under the title--The Amazing Adventures of Meltdown Girl (How losing access to Amazon is affecting my production schedule)  Sign up to receive the monthly Essay of Doom (every 13th of the month)   It is official. After twenty-five years of peace among the leaders of Denver’s Wiccan community, the Second Denver Witch War has started. And I am the first causality of DWW2. Happy, happy—joy, joy—right?  Yes, it is going to affect the production schedule—as in “Everything is on hold until further notice.”  Why? Because some witch thought that it was a suitable punishment for me to have my Amazon author account terminated. Me and my wife chose not to march in lock-step with a Big Name Witch, and now we need to be punished for our wrongful disobedience.  Nice, right? I am guessing that this is going to be another case of putting lipstick on a pig, and claiming that it is about “Community service, and not elevatin

  Take this quiz to see if you better off with a pickle as your occult leader. If your fearless leader . . .  . . . can’t say, “I don’t know” . . . . . . can’t cite their source . . . . . . can’t say, “I changed my mind” . . . . . . can’t say, “I made a mistake” . . . . . . can’t say, “I am sorry” . . . . . . claims to be the only qualified teacher . . . . . . has two sets of rules: One for their allies, and another for everyone else . . . . . . declares events that call their Holiness in question TOP SECRET . . . . . . trademarks terms and names that existed long before your leader was born . . . . . . blames you for their bad behavior . . . . . . starts to make personal, business, and healthcare decisions for you . . . . . . goes out of their way to cut you off from your support network . . . . . . uses their followers to satisfy their Ego, Sexual, and Monetary needs . . . . . . is unwilling to share the spotlight with others . . . . . . believes that their poli

PreviousBlog / TBH-MasterList / NextBlog Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop--the exciting game show where crazy Tarot bloggers compete to write entertaining essays connecting Tarot with some randomly selected topic pulled from a hat. Everything you see here is improvised--written mere moments before the Hop went live. Yes, that is right--Everything is made up and the points don't matter. I am not saying that Drew Carey is the Spirit Animal of TBH wranglers . . . but I am not saying that he is not either. Jay, our wrangler for this Tarot Blog Hop gave us the following prompt: Whether you have a ritual for working with your deck(s) Are you superstitious when it comes to letting others touch your deck If you work with clients do you have a routine/ritual prior to a reading Do you read for yourself / the world, if not would you ever seek guidance from them And my response was something along the line of a scream that sounded a little like this--"I have no ritual, no r

PreviousBlog / MasterList / NextBlog Welcome to this round of the Tarot Blog Hop. The theme for this TBH is Fables, Fortunes and "Once upon a time." And now for our feature presentation . . . Because my cards have been abused. Submitted for review by Artemis Mackenzie, Headmistress of Hairyboils School of Witchcraft and Roguery—Chancellor Sister Soice (that is pronounced Zoice, not Seuss) observation notes of Professor Rowan Whiteadder’s Illuminated History 101 class on Sol Day, Haregg Maatis, cycle of the Zombie Pox, in the third regnal year of the First Pharaoh. . . . after three hours of lecture on the fables and myths of Tarot, Varcus Wilvelivaenythyng the Infinite, son of Kantvork “Vully” Wilvelivaenythyng the Square Root—Dukemage of Zharkdom, and Queen Beslie Thornincide the Negative One, better known by one and all as Wibble, was still not convinced that all he knew and believed about the origins of Tarot was completely forged and falsified. Flanked by his

For those who are not up-to-date on my latest "burn him at the stake" worthy sin and heresy, I was recently forced to resign from a Wiccan/Pagan Open Ritual Organization that I have been attending for twenty-plus years (volunteering for over a decade--spent seven years as an official administrative member) because I refused to give up my Wiccan Third Degree (as well as Second and First Degrees) and the use of magical rituals when I became an medical marijuana patient. To protect the organization's identity (because They must be Real Witches, thanks to their Community Service time and sensible attitude towards Medical Marijuana and Magick)--I am referring to Them as " Cos-Neo ," for at one point in the month-long drama, I was told by the New Big Giant Head that "We [the Council] have talked about it, and have decided that membership on the Council is about Community Service , and Not Elevating Ourselves Over Others ." The following timeline proves t