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A Midwinter Grimoire For Body And Soul
Submitted by Solstice on Sunday, December 7, 2025 8:05 AM
Midwinter solstice. Yule. Christmas. However you chose to honor and celebrate this season, the darkest and coldest time of the year (in the Northern hemisphere), the time when the year grows ancient and bids farewell… there are feelings and experiences common to all of us. Happiness, certainly, and anticipation—but also, often, a sense of exhaustion Read More…
Tree Spirit Wisdom – The Pine
Submitted by Joseph Morningstar on Sunday, December 7, 2025 8:00 AM
Image by Mollyroselee from Pixabay In many metaphysical circles, the pine tree represents responsibility. For Native Indigenous Peoples, they represent wisdom and longevity. To other cultures, they represent fertility and life. Trees and forests in general, have played an important role as symbols of strength, kinship, growth and wisdom. For instance, Pines (Pinus spp.) have Read More…
Silent Night of the Dead
Submitted by Holbrook PSI on Saturday, December 6, 2025 9:35 AM
I hope that this article finds you all well and ready for the holiday season. I want to venture a little away from my traditional writing style this time and I hope that all who reads this will understand that some of the information is fictional. Bearing that in mind, I hope that you enjoy Read More…
Philosophers Stoned
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on Saturday, December 6, 2025 9:20 AM
Image by Midjourney.com The fact is surprising, when you think about it. Why have philosophers not had more to say about the phenomenology and social, political, legal, economic, and medical aspects of cannabis? Plato wrote his dialogue Symposium about an after-theatre drinking party in ancient Athens, where Socrates and his friends discourse about the nature Read More…
The Christmas Tree Is A Tradition Older Than Christmas
Submitted by Pranky the Elf on Saturday, December 6, 2025 8:31 AM
http://giphy.com Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights? Strapping a fir tree to the hood of my car and worrying about the strength of the twine, I sometimes wonder if I should just buy an artificial Read More…
Grýla The Growler
Submitted by Storyteller on Friday, December 5, 2025 1:57 PM
Imgur.com While Krampus may be king of holiday scares, his fans may be overlooking an equally nasty, much more formidable queen—a Christmas monster who lives further north, in the frigid climes of Iceland who goes by the name Grýla, the Christmas witch. This tough ogress lives in a cave in Iceland’s hinterlands, the matriarch of Read More…
The Actual Origin Of Xmas As A Christmas Abbreviation
Submitted by SHABDA – Preceptor on Friday, December 5, 2025 1:55 PM
Image by Midjourney.com HAPPY XMAS – X is the abbreviation of the name Christ and has been in use since early Christian times. Many people nowadays are mistakenly of the opinion that the use of “Xmas” is a recent invention or a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas by taking the “Christ” Read More…
HO HO HO
Submitted by Holmes on Friday, December 5, 2025 1:40 PM
AI generated from http://Pixabay.com When I was a kid, I was a typical older brother who enjoyed teasing and scaring the bejesus out of my two younger brothers. It was the springboard for the development of my adult powers of persuasion. By age six I knew there was no Santa Claus which of course justified Read More…
Before You Do Magic
Submitted by Summoner on Thursday, December 4, 2025 10:14 AM
Image by Midjourney.com So you’ve decided you want to do magic? Great, join the multitude. Human beings have been making magic for at least fifty thousand years, and probably much longer. The oldest cave paintings in which the ritual dances of shamans are depicted only date back around fifty millennia, so that’s as far into Read More…
The Mystery of Iniquity – Does Evil Exist or do Bad Things Just Happen?
Submitted by Veritas on Thursday, December 4, 2025 10:06 AM
Image by Midjourney.com On June 10, 1991, a cover story appeared in Time magazine on the topic of evil. The author, Lance Morrow, did not argue for a particular thesis and did not reach any conclusions. What he did, however, was in a sense more important. He began by stating three propositions: God is all-powerful. Read More…

































