Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
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Magdalene’s Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged Catholicism, holidays on July 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Independence Day 2026
Posted in Current Events, Holidays, Tyranny, tagged fascism, holidays, politicians, Washington DC on July 4, 2026| 1 Comment »
The saddest thing about the collapse of the US empire is that instead of a dignified decline or a catastrophic collapse, we had to endure the spectacle of the White House being turned into the White Trash House.
Litha 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on June 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun reached its northernmost point at 8:24 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year & first day of winter in the Southern. May all of your plans come to fruition in the fullness of time, and Blessed Be!
In Memory of Grace
Posted in Biography, Holidays, tagged Grace, holidays on June 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
From here on out, I intend to commemorate Grace’s birthday with a depiction of an eternal flame, symbolizing my undying love for my departed best friend, who would have turned 68 today.
I love you, sweetheart, and I always will.
Whores’ Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, censorship, holidays, language, paganism on June 2, 2026| 1 Comment »
Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
May Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on May 1, 2026| 2 Comments »
May Eve 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2026| 1 Comment »
Easter 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on April 5, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Vernal Equinox 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on March 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun will cross the equator moving northward at 14:46 UTC today, marking the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern. Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!
Mardi Gras 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays on February 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Since Andrea Mistretta retired her Mardi Gras poster series last year, here’s her poster from 2011; I’ll start going backward from there in years to come. Happy Mardi Gras, dear readers!
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