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Have lights set and worked on my altar in a nine-day community altar  service beginning the night of November 2nd, All Souls Day. There is some wiggle room and you can join up after the work starts as long as you see that there are still spots left and it doesn’t say “sold out.” Along with setting and working lights in the name of your loved one, I will perform a nine-day novena and daily recitation of the Chaplet of the Dead, with appropriate offerings, incense, and other materials. The Chaplet of the Dead is a four-decade rosary that includes prayers such as the De Profundis (Psalm 130) and prayers...

I owe readers and clients an explanation, but I really struggle with where to draw the line on TMI sometimes. Er, a lot. Even people who are really into vicarious drama would probably find the entire years-long saga to be way too long and convoluted. So I might go into more detail later, but for the time being, here are the bare bones: I recently got out of a really bad situation, one that’s been going on for years and that affected pretty much every aspect of my life. After 6+ months of failed efforts, I realized that the only...

Early access to the article on Smilax – Greenbriar – Sarsaparilla is live at Bayou Hoodoo Herbal for supporters. If you need the password, it’s available at the ko-fi page.

See also the museum’s page Small Blessings: Amulets at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

If you don’t know what Christian Nationalism is, go look into it stat, because they’re in the White House, in the courthouses, in the legislature, and on your local school board. They have been working very energetically for decades now to get here, to this moment, where they might actually stand a real chance of getting what they want, at least for a few years. See, the tricksy thing is that Christian nationalists are not Christian. We are all using the same word but it doesn’t mean the same thing. Christ’s teaching are fundamentally incompatible with fascism, Jesus was not...