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Feeling the Burn
Summer in Illinois, and my shirt is sticking to my back. I walk the fence row around a local cemetery with my Flora Incognita app open, looking for spicebush. Every fourth plant here seems to carry some characteristic of spicebush; the fenc...
Root and Rune
The knife catches once in the grain of the wood, then pushes through. A pale curl lifts from the stave and falls onto my desk. Eiwaz takes shape under the blade, one line descending, two hooks turned toward opposite world; beside my hand li...
Bindrunes
At midnight in my study, I hold a small wooden talisman near the candle’s flame. Two rune-staves carved on its surface intertwine seamlessly, merging into a single enigmatic symbol. As a rune magician, I feel the ancient currents stirring i...
Pipe Song
Pipe Song
He heard it first while the radiator clicked itself toward sleep, a thin riff rising from the kitchen drain, high and sweet like a wineglass sung by a wet finger. He leaned over the sink, cheek near the steel, breath fogging the...
Music and Egregores
Freya Aswynn used the term “Reciprocal Symbiosis” in her benchmark work on Northern Tradition occultism, “Leaves of Yggdrasil” (since retitled “Northern Mysteries and Magick”) to explain her view of our relationships with our ancestral Gods...
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Eric McCormick is a poet and horticulturist. His work explores the crossroads of Magick, poetry, and alchemy. His poems and essays have appeared in Tales From The Moonlit Path, The Otherworld, Witches and Pagans, and many other publications.
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