aging
Column: Spirit, Can You Hear Me?
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Sheri Barker shares her experience of self-quarantine – the sensation of becoming a ghost while still living.
Living
Column: an Essay in Five Hammers
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Pagan Perspectives
Hammer the First
She hands me a tiny white box. I look at it, the gold lettering of the logo for Pathways, our local metaphysical shop, glimmering in the candlelight. It is the night of my first-degree initiation into my family’s coven, and now that the ritual is over, we are gathered around the coffee table altar in the living room of the house where I grew up exchanging presents. I slide the top off the box. Inside, resting on a pillow of spun fibers, is a silver sigil attached to a slim black cord.