Fireside Wicca Community Church in Denver Colorado

My business plan for the last quarter is to publish three novelettes (essays of 10k-15k) showcasing “legal and public relations” issues with my planned autobiography. Please note that I am hoping that my muse and honored dead agree to let me take time off from the autobiography, so that I can do two other cornerstone offerings—one being something ceremonial instruction, the other being science fiction. The autobiographical material and ceremonial instruction is planned for my Morgan Drake Eckstein brand, along with the stuff that I am labelling Fireside Wicca / EOEW and the Esoteric Comedy Show . The reason for publishing a trio of novelettes is to hopefully ease my mind about the need to defend myself while also having some of the major issues with the autobiography looked at by my regular readers. And I do mean “regular readers”; spies and Very Expensive Lawyers are not my target audience. Well, beyond testing all the restrictions and omissions that three different spiritual...

Something that surprises some attendees is how “kid friendly” Fireside Wiccan Community Church is. Because some parents in this community have been told by other leaders to leave their kids at home. No matter how well-behaved your kids are, some “non-parent” will be upset with them. Given I have no kids that I know of, why does the idea of barring kids offend me? Simple, I was a kid. Some context: My Gardnerian aunt, Victoria Josephine Ramalia, was openly a witch. Taught me stuff. Made me question the role of witches in the world. Encouraged me to someday be a public figure. “Why are the Christians allowed to display their Ten Commandments at the court house while I am told that showing off our Horned Lord is totally unacceptable and a societal sin?” As in I don’t remember a time while my aunt was living, that this question wasn’t in the Kool-Aid. This idea only disappears in my maternal family when my aunt is murdered for being polyamorous. It is when my mother is des...

  When I was recently informed that I was far too dangerous to be allowed to perform open-to-public Wiccan (pagan) ritual, I thought about labelling all my future events— Ceremonialist Initiates Only . In other words, I thought about leaving the public Wiccan community completely—to protect others. Then She Who Must Rule declared that she was going to undo the damage to the community that Maggie Moonstone inflicted upon it with her “leave your differences at the door” event policy. Starting off with banning individuals who should have never been allowed past the door. In other words, there is already a Gatekeeper of All Things Magical and Mystical here in Denver. Given the universe requires balance, there needs to be an organization that truly believes in building community, teaching people to be their best selves, and allows lookie-loos (religion-of-month club) in. I may not have fifty Righteous years of community service under my belt, like the hand chosen successor o...

One of the things that I always ask after a Righteous Exile and the obligatory “year and a day” for She   Who Must Rule to find a lawyer that actually thinks that the claimed restrictions over my actions for “my sins against the community” will be legally enforceable in a court of law is “How much did delaying cost me as an author and pagan minister?” Both in terms of income and the damage to my social standing. One half of that question is God Awful Easy to answer—for every time I am kicked out of a group, I lose all my standing in that community—in fact, campaigns to discredit me (or bind me with “white magick”) have been called down upon me by several Past Witch Queens. Who are dead now, so I can discuss it. If there are any readers from Denver here, just know that for me, the First Denver Witch War never ended. Not even the birth of the Open Full Moon (OFM) community could bring a true ceasefire for me. In fact, with Event-Group Thirteen kicking me out—it was the thirtee...

Today is my birthday—and this year I am giving myself the gift of rejoining the world as a pagan writer . Some context might help. Someplace during the course of my life, I picked up some superstitions. One of which is the idea that whatever I do on my birthday determines what I will be doing that next year . This superstition is similar (probably kissing cousin) to the rituals that surround new year’s day. Yes, that was supposed to be Lower Case, for there are multiple new year days during the year. Business, Chinese, Jewish, Tax, Wiccan, Norse, Egyptian, and your own personal one—your birthday. Sadly for me (and you), we do not have complete control over these days. And unless it is a societal observation, odds are that your birthday is just like every other day of the year. Not special at all. Again context matters: During my fourteenth year, my father finished losing everything we owned. I went from being upwardly mobile middle class (third generation immigrant) to b...