My first Oracle Gathering was Atlantis, in February 2003. My friends Delilah and Laura and I turned up at the Capitol Hill Arts Center to check it out, and stepped into a multi-media wonderland! We were enfolded in great music, surrounded by electric and electronic art installations, and treated to an amazing midnight performance… a cautionary ecological tale about the fall of Atlantis that seems even more relevant today. Osiris Indriya was one of three brilliant local artists who conceive... read more

No matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really afraid of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign.

The library at Alexandria can be burnt down. There are forces above and beyond papyrus; we may temporarily be deprived of our ability to discover these forces, but their energy will not be suppressed. It is right that, from time to time, cataclysms occur which compel us to return to nature, i.e., to rediscover life. The old totemism of animals,... read more

In honor of this much-anticipated and welcome event, I'm republishing an article I wrote back around the time Mother Earth was young... this was published in the late, lamented Widdershins paper (Sylvana, where ARE you??) and I still like it - and hope you do as well, dear friends! See you on the dance floor?

Ritual Performances Build Community
...article by Mark Dalton

"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been -- a place, half-remembered and half-envisioned, w... read more

Put up some pictures of our "Raise The Goddess" spell last night at the foot of the Fremont Troll!.. It was a lovely night! (See the video on my page now too!)

If you have never treated yourself to the films of America's premier avante garde film maker, Kenneth Anger, you owe it to yourself to do it now! The long awaited Volumes One and Two of his collected films are out on DVD and they are gorgeous! Restored frame by frame to their original clarity and luminous color, with optional commentary by the auteur himself throughout. Anger tells wonderful stories about the making of his films, and the remarkable casts he assembled for them. He also illumin... read more