Fireside Wiccan Community Church (2727 N. Cook St., Denver, CO 80205) 2022 event schedule (Gate opens at 5pm, ritual/drumming at 6pm, close at 9 pm) June 18: Burning unwanted mental weeds Before you can plant new habits and goals, it’s helpful to clean up your mental garden space. Live fire! July 2: Talk local pagan history with Khari and Morgan What brought you into Wicca/magick? What events shaped the Denver community? Who helped you? July 16: Initiated things not to do in an OFM (Open Full Moon ritual) Morgan Drake Eckstein shares stories of mistakes that he made as a ceremonialist an ..read more

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 ..read more

[The following was sent to my All-in-One mailing list, serving all my acknowledged pen-names. You can sign up here for my mailing list] After holding out hope forever—me and my hopeless causes—sadly I must report that my annual OFM (Open Full Moon) ritual scheduled for October 31 is officially cancelled. Quite simply, me and Khari could not figure out a way to make it safe for us to gather this year. You don’t realize how important a bathroom is until you don’t have access to one. And it was figuring out how to let attendees use the bathroom that stumped us. And once we saw the problem, we cou ..read more

Previous/ MasterList/ Next Welcome to the Yule Tarot Blog Hop--gee where has the year gone? The theme for this TBH is "cozy." Or as I like to call it, "Another chance for Morgan to talk about how he wants to remodel the house." In this particular case, how I would like to set up my upstairs ritual/oracle room. Is this your card? When me and my wife first brought the house, the second bedroom was to become my office with the half-basement being a ritual room. Having lived in the house for sixteen years, and having more ritual and fortune telling under my belt, along with the lingeri ..read more

Egregors--easy to build all by yourself, right? No. The line to burn me at the stake for violating modern ideas about initiated traditions (Golden Dawn, many forms of Wicca, Thelema) will soon be forming. Why? Because I am willing to say things like this: You need both--individual and group work--to fully understand and use the [initiated Golden Dawn] system as it was designed to work. This is how it was designed--it is not a bug; it is a feature. Initiation (in a group) is like installing the operating system of a computer. The members of the group itself is like the circuits in a c ..read more

Previous blog/ MasterList/ Next blog in hop I will admit that the theme of this Tarot Blog Hop, Walking Into Life With The Dead, left me at a loss of what to do with it, so I am just going to use the prompt as the basis of a quick Tarot reading. My message from the Honored Dead. 1. What is the most important thing the spirits of your beloved dead have been attempting to show or teach you this year? For this question, I pulled the King of Swords, which because the figure is not on a horse, I am going to read more like the Prince of Swords instead. [In Golden Dawn, the Kings are moun ..read more

PreviousBlog/ MasterList/ NextBlog/ Welcome to the mid-September installment of the Tarot Blog Hop. The topic for this one is maintaining and restoring balance--ironic considering that I am just starting to warm-up to break out of my summer schedule (which is not balanced at all). A few years ago, while I was in college, I started to goof off during the summer months. At the time, it made sense--if only because I did not want to take classes during the summer semester (same amount of work--less time to do it in). After graduating (two bachelor degrees--literature and history), I continued ta ..read more

Previous/ MasterList/ Next Hi everyone--welcome to another exciting edition of the Tarot Blog Hop. The theme for this hop is "The Sun Harvest -- What end of summer harvest do you want to bring in before fall?" *falls on floor laughing* Hey kids, do you know what time it is? "Howdy Doody Time?" "Tool Time?" "Dinner time?" "Time for ice cream?" "Oh, no--he is going to talk about his yard again, isn't he?" "Again and again and again..." Yes, that is right. I am going to talk about my yard again. But first, a slight sidetrack. Let me tell you about my July. And my original summer harve ..read more

It is once again time for Smashwords annual July ebook sale (July 1st to 31st). (Some of these books are scheduled to be expanded and updated--if it has an asterisk [*], it is scheduled to be expanded and revised--in other words, if you want to get it cheap before the expansion, do it now because the price will be going up on these ebooks when I update them later.) Discounted to $1.50 USD Five Reasons Why Magic Fails Golden Dawn Rituals--Three Officer Neophyte Script* Rite of the Magical Images of the Wiccan Sabbats* Witchy Rants (the Collected MDE Heaarthstone Community Church Newslett ..read more

Previous blog/ Master List/ Next blog When our Tarot Blog Hop wrangler, Joy Vernon, posted the topic for this hop, I had to laugh. “Don’t fence me in” was the exact opposite of what going on in my life. This spring, my wife decided to use her inheritance from her mother’s death last summer to pay for house and garden repairs and upgrades. One of the things that my wife has wanted for years is a privacy fence. And after many, many years, she had talked me around to her position. If nothing else, I no longer wanted to look at the dead brown knee high grass that my southern neighbor insists on ..read more