Supermarket Magic Review Part 2: Ableism Boogaloo

Welcome back to my review of Supermarket Magic! After suffering through multiple transient ischemic attacks while reading the Ethics chapter, I happily moved on to the meat of the book — the good stuff. He starts this part of the book with an intro that includes his main reasoning for writing the book — basically, …

Review of Supermarket Magic: Part 1

Review: Supermarket Magic by Michael Furie Warning: this post is going to be long and ranty.  EDIT: yeah it’s now 3 posts. SETTLE IN. I really wanted to like this book. Honestly, I don’t know where to begin. I’m starting this review before I finish reading the book because there’s so much to say. I …

If You’re Going Through Hell…

Sometimes it doesn’t work, and you have to learn to be okay with that. I’m not trying to tell you what to feel; I’m talking about my own experience as a magic practitioner. Sometimes my magic doesn’t work; sometimes it straight-up dies. And it’s taken me a long time to get to a point where …

My Quick and Dirty Imbolc Ritual

Ok, it wasn’t that dirty, but the phrase works better when I include it. It was VERY quick and I found myself mentally comparing it to a quickie in a gas station bathroom with a loved one. Not that I’ve ever done that. Yet. Wait, actually, it was pretty dirty, because…Imbolc Eve (for me, I …

There is a Monster in this House

I have spent most of this month (and year) trying my best to be positive about everything. I have a tendency to let the worst five minutes of a day become the whole day. I didn’t want to do that this year. When I fill in a square on the Year in Pixels page in …

Joy & Grief: figuring out my Samhain Advent

I completely dropped the ball on doing fire festival advents this year. In the wave of grief following the death of my friend and the death of my mentor, it seems very important to me that I actually follow through with Samhain advent. Despite living in a house that is spiritually blocking me, in which …