Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Sabbats are the Eight Major Holidays many Wiccans celebrate each year. Many of these fall on or very near the recognized holidays in the United States. This is not surprising as the Christians usurped many of the Pagan holidays and practices. This made it easier to convert people to the new religion. The Eight Major…

Here’s a great big can of worms: books for witches. You would think (if you aren’t a witch, Pagan, or otherwise familiar with the new age scene) that there would just be a few books to recommend and no controversy. Right? Wrong. Apparently, many Pagans and witches like to pride themselves on which books to…

Oils are not something I have a lot of experience with. I had a witch make a special oil just for me, but I haven’t used it often. Sometimes oils are used to anoint candles before doing spell work or rituals. At other times they are used directly on the skin, in a bath, or…

Today’s challenge from little city witch’s 44 Days of Witchery Challenge is to post a picture of a magical place outdoors. While most people would probably think of Stonehenge or a similar site, I consider most places outside to be magical. And most places inside as well. At least as long as you are there.…

Today’s challenge is a picture of an air element. Interestingly enough, the challenge didn’t specify a picture of nature for this particular element. I suppose some people don’t think that you can see air. Well, I guess most of the time you can’t see it, but you can see its effects.        …

Today I’m going to combine two of the topics from Little City Witch’s 44 Days of Witchery Blog Challenge: a favorite mythological animal and your sun sign. My sign is Taurus. When I was in the third grade or so, I heard a story about a Minotaur. I put the two together and have thought…

Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty. As the story goes, or at least one version of it, Uranus husband of Gaia imprisoned all of his children so none of them would take over his rule. Finally his child Cronus was able to ambush his father and castrated him. He threw the um,…

Today’s challenge is to post a picture of nature, water element. I have always loved being in and near the water. It was one of the requirements when I left where I grew up: I wanted to be somewhere with hills or mountains, with lots of trees, and near the water. These days I live…

Happy October, Everyone! It is officially my favorite time of year. I’ll be spending time this weekend breaking out the Halloween decorations. Oops, I mean Samhain. 🙂 I will also be giving a 3 hour class at the Pan-Pagan Festival at Ancient Light in Waldport, Oregon this Saturday (from 3-6 pm). We’ll cover ways to…

Day 1 of the Pagan and Witchy Challenge: What’s your Witchy Background? Some of you have already read about my background on this blog, but here’s a quick recap: I was raised as a fundamentalist Southern Baptist. My whole world was ruled by black and white thinking controlled by a terrible and harsh ruler in…