There is change afoot. Some of you may have noticed that the Wiccan Religion section of my website no longer exists. After much soul-searching and deliberation, I subsequently decided to replace that section with the one you are currently exploring. While many of the former contents of that section are contained in the archives (and I will likely leave most of those essays in their original conditions), the new title and vision for this section has taken a different direction from that of its previous incarnation. The new additions and revisions I intend to make will reflect this change.

Much of these writings can still be quite relevant to Wicca, and nearly all of the essays in this section were written while I still considered myself an Eclectic Wiccan (also sometimes referred to as a "Neo-Wiccan") but I no longer feel that I should or even can truly claim to speak for Wicca, in any of its variations. I have slowly come to realize that my own form of Neo-Pagan religious Witchcraft is just that: my own form of Witchcraft, a personal, artistic, magical, Nature-based spirituality. My path is still profoundly influenced by both Eclectic Wicca and what knowledge I have been able to glean about British Traditional Wicca, and it is not as if I am shunning or degrading that influence, I just no longer feel that some variant of "Wiccan" best indicates my actual practices and beliefs. I feel that my path has developed, grown, and expanded into something that is no longer specifically Wicca, and as a result I do not feel it would be right to continue to write about my own path under the pretense of discussing Wiccan beliefs.

I am more consciously trying to attune my spirituality to my locality in addition to trying to more fully understand and analyze the way in which my art intersects with and embodies my beliefs and magical practice. I am also seeking a deeper connection with the landscape in which I reside: sketching my impressions of genius loci sensed near the periphery of the Veil, suggested by the arc of branches and the scent of decaying leaves; incorperating strands of unspoken myth, local flora and fauna into my artwork; crystallizing moments in haiku; building up my knowledge of endemic wildlife in my effort to become something of an amateur naturalist.

My own form of Witchcraft is unabashedly eclectic. I am inspired by so many sources, from other artists who explore mythic themes and subjects; to Taoism, Kemeticism, and Zen Buddhism; the philosophical writings of Alan Watts, Lao Tzu, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; the poetry of Mary Oliver, Mirabai, Matsuo Basho, and Rainer Maria Rilke; fellow self-identified Witches including Marian Green, Starhawk, Doreen Valiente, the Farrars, and Judy Harrow; world mythology, culture, religion, and art; and, of course, the infinite creativity of Nature Herself. While I do not support thoughtlessly taking elements from various cultures and traditions in order to mish-mash them together into some incoherent "whole," I do believe that one should be receptive to wisdom where one finds it. There is a difference between the aforementioned approach which involves the indescriminate snatching of ideas and practices from whatever source happens to grab one's momentary attention and the thoughtful integration and adaptation practiced by more responsible eclectics. Hopefully this website will be a demonstration of the latter approach.