Recently, a private correspondent asked me the following question: You’ve taken a lot of time explaining Thelema. However, there is something that’s been gnawing at me for some time now, and is possibly the most fundamental of all for this subject… “What’s the point of it all?” There’s a part of me that is wondering […]

The vernal equinox marks the time at which the length of the day begins to exceed the length of the night once again (technically, it doesn’t; due to the refraction of light in the atmosphere and because the Sun appears to be a disk rather than a point, the length of the day exceeds the […]

In our last entry, Sun enters Succedent of Pisces, we wrote about the wisdom of seeking “the path of least resistance,” and in the closing decan of what is often considered to be the weakest of the twelve astrological signs, with the vernal equinox just around the corner, it may appear appropriate to turn our […]

As the Sun enters the ascendant decan of Pisces, we turn our thoughts to nature. The main distinction between Thelema and paganism (“paganism” here referring to actual folk religion, as opposed to the modern phenomenon of “neo-paganism” and Wicca which are little but thinly veiled versions of Christianity with the exception that the morbid sexual […]

Imbolc heralds the arrival of spring in the traditional reckoning of the seasons. The name probably derives from associations with the first lactation of ewes, connecting it with new-born lambs and the return of new life, just as Samhain – the preceding cross-quarter day – is primarily associated with death. We could categories three stages […]