http://www.rendingtheveil.com Occult Resources for Magicians Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:14:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-defense-binabm/ http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-defense-binabm/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:57:08 +0000 Lupa http://www.rendingtheveil.com/?p=2242 If you’ve read much of my writing, either online or in books (especially DIY Totemism), you’ll know that I have a tendency to advocate working with totems other than the Big, Impressive, North American Birds and Mammals (BINABM) that so often show up in totem animal dictionaries. I’ve worked with extinct totems, microscopic ones, and [...]]]> If you’ve read much of my writing, either online or in books (especially DIY Totemism), you’ll know that I have a tendency to advocate working with totems other than the Big, Impressive, North American Birds and Mammals (BINABM) that so often show up in totem animal dictionaries. I’ve worked with extinct totems, microscopic ones, and [...]]]> http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-defense-binabm/feed/ 0 http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-samhain-2009/ http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-samhain-2009/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:34:05 +0000 Lupa http://www.rendingtheveil.com/?p=1909 Over on my LiveJournal, I have a significant number of furries on my friend list; I’m not a furry myself, but I enjoy the artwork folks post, and we tend to have other things in common as well. (Lots of pagan furs, for one thing!) Something that got posted a few weeks back was some [...]]]> Over on my LiveJournal, I have a significant number of furries on my friend list; I’m not a furry myself, but I enjoy the artwork folks post, and we tend to have other things in common as well. (Lots of pagan furs, for one thing!) Something that got posted a few weeks back was some [...]]]> http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-samhain-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-creepy-crawlies-and-heebie-jeebies/ http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-creepy-crawlies-and-heebie-jeebies/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:04:49 +0000 Lupa http://www.rendingtheveil.com/?p=1154 I had a nightmare last night — about bugs. Scorpions, spiders, biting flies, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies that could potentially do damage to the soft flesh wrapping my endoskeleton. (Why couldn’t it have been butterflies? Or snails?) Back when I was a kid, I spent countless days when the weather was warm overturning rocks to [...]]]> I had a nightmare last night — about bugs. Scorpions, spiders, biting flies, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies that could potentially do damage to the soft flesh wrapping my endoskeleton. (Why couldn’t it have been butterflies? Or snails?) Back when I was a kid, I spent countless days when the weather was warm overturning rocks to catch [...]]]> http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-creepy-crawlies-and-heebie-jeebies/feed/ 6 http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-summer-2009/ http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-summer-2009/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:38:07 +0000 Lupa http://www.rendingtheveil.com/?p=746 In my decade-plus of being a pagan and magician, animal magic and animal totemism have always been my main focus regardless of what paradigm I was working in. Since I began practicing shamanism in earnest back in 2007, I’ve become much more aware of how interconnected everything really is. While I was already an active [...]]]> In my decade-plus of being a pagan and magician, animal magic and animal totemism have always been my main focus regardless of what paradigm I was working in. Since I began practicing shamanism in earnest back in 2007, I’ve become much more aware of how interconnected everything really is. While I was already an active [...]]]> http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-summer-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-scrub-jays/ http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-scrub-jays/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:16:07 +0000 Lupa http://www.rendingtheveil.com/?p=387 When I moved to Portland, OR in 2007, one of the first locals to greet me wasn’t human. Instead, I found the trees outside my first apartment to be full of scrub jays. These gray and blue corvids have a similar place in the urban ecosystem here that their cousins, the blue jays, did back [...]]]> When I moved to Portland, OR in 2007, one of the first locals to greet me wasn’t human. Instead, I found the trees outside my first apartment to be full of scrub jays. These gray and blue corvids have a similar place in the urban ecosystem here that their cousins, the blue jays, did back [...]]]> http://www.rendingtheveil.com/lupas-den-scrub-jays/feed/ 0 http://www.rendingtheveil.com/shrine-to-dead-critters/ http://www.rendingtheveil.com/shrine-to-dead-critters/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:01:23 +0000 Lupa http://www.rendingtheveil.com/?p=72 Recently, my husband Taylor and I moved to a new home. This, of course, meant uprooting everything, packing it into boxes, bins and bags, and trucking it across town (thankfully the day before Snowpocalypse 2008 hit the Pacific Northwest!). After about a week of recovery, I had the time and energy to reconstruct my ritual/artwork [...]]]> Recently, my husband Taylor and I moved to a new home. This, of course, meant uprooting everything, packing it into boxes, bins and bags, and trucking it across town (thankfully the day before Snowpocalypse 2008 hit the Pacific Northwest!). After about a week of recovery, I had the time and energy to reconstruct my ritual/artwork [...]]]> http://www.rendingtheveil.com/shrine-to-dead-critters/feed/ 0