Living
The Moon
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The Moon card forces the exploration of what we least like to face: the dark sides of ourselves. But the bright side of the Moon is that when we do so, we learn and embrace who we truly are.
News
A local’s guide to the Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival
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Making plans to visit the largest Beltane festival in Europe this year? Siobhan Ball has you covered for the best places to eat and stay while visiting Edinburgh, as well as tips on making the most of your time in the UK’s most haunted city.
Book Reviews
The Kitchen Ghost
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The food was bad, the magic was bad, and both were written by people who had all of this knowledge they forgot to put down on the page. But making food felt like the easier version of reading the grimoires. Troubleshooting instructions, handwriting alterations, and crossing out some steps altogether made me more confident in both the kitchen and the sacred circle.
Paganism
New research challenges belief about medieval feasts
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New research suggests that the stereotype of medieval kings feasting ostentatiously on meat and alcohol while peasants starved may be overblown.
Paganism
Voodoo Doughnuts: just fun or the commodification of a minority religion?
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TWH — The Portland-based doughnut company Voodoo Doughnuts announced earlier this year that it was expanding its brand to Orlando, Florida and would be offering its unique take on doughnuts at the Universal Studios theme park. Its regular doughnut offerings have names such as Voodoo Doll, Memphis Mafia, Gay Bar, and Cock-N-Balls. They also serve the ubiquitous powdered sugar cake doughnut as well. The store opened last week with limited hours, and will hold its grand opening sometime this spring. Voodoo Doughnuts is the brainchild of Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon. According to their site, the two were friends and wanted to start a business that would “fit into an extraordinary Portland Oregon business climate.