My name is Rabbit. I’m an animist, pantheist, polytheist, spirit worker, folk magician, and traditional witch.

I’ve been practicing some form of these practices for about two decades and I’ve passed through quite a lot of steps on the path, from Hermetic and ceremonial practices, chaos magick, and demonolatry to druidry, reconstructionism, and initiatory paths. While I have my differences and disputes with a lot of these systems, all of these journeys were key to my reaching my current step on the spiritual path, and I don’t consider myself “finished” and likely never will.

I used to be a pagan blogger around the 2012-ish to 2016-ish era, which now seems like quite a long time ago. I’ve done a lot of questioning myself about my motivations for writing again now: The social media landscape has definitely not gotten nicer in my time off. But I’m a writer at heart, and I think I often like to process my thoughts and feelings on things by writing about them. That’s just the way it is with me!

Besides my beliefs, work, and responses to ongoing currents of pagan discussion, I’m likely to discuss local cultus, gnosis, veneration practices, spiritual book reviews and thoughts, and other ad hoc reflections. My hope is that my writing about my practice can speak to people in some way. I’d like to believe that I can create writing in the world that I would have loved to read ten years ago, when I was looking for shared feelings and signposts that I was going in the right direction.

As an animist who does ongoing work toward gnosis, I experience the world as enspirited. My “witchcraft” is embedded in initiatory and folk traditions, and it’s definitely not secular. I venerate several different gods and spirits and my beliefs inform all aspects of my life, from politics and activism to my relationships and career.

This also isn’t an academic project or a 101 guide. I’m going to write about my practices, viewpoints, and beliefs, and rarely anyone else’s. I also won’t share everything about my practice or work, or even half of it. Much of what I practice is for me–it would feel wrong to speak to the public about it, if not outright forbidden. I can also be, in no particular order, fussy, irritable, pedantic, rude, and prone to misphrasing things. I don’t really like to tack disclaimers to everything I write, but if we don’t get along for these or any reason, that’s fine! We can both go on our way.

I hope that, if nothing else, this writing finds someone, and makes them feel like their community is just a bit larger.

All the best,
Rabbit.