Sara Wright to Nane Jordan on White Ink Gifted Within the Presence of Women

https://www.magoism.net/2017/06/prose-white-ink-gifted-within-the-presence-of-women-by-nane-jordan/ “We are women healing wounds/lineages from mothers and traumatic experiences of mothering in our families and communities. This is a difficult topic to surface and admit in patriarchal society, Read More …

Sara Wright to Helen Hye-Sook Hwang on Bell Essay 2

https://www.magoism.net/2013/01/bell-essay-2-ancient-korean-bells-and-magoism-by-helen-hye-sook-hwang/ Helen, this is an amazing essay so beautifully crafted and written and the pictures are stunning. “Behold! The bell is a metaphor of not only the body of a Read More …

(Essay) 36 Steps Toward a Gift Economy by Genevieve Vaughan

To change society we must think a different way about the world we live in: 1. We must realize that market exchange is not natural, real or necessary. It is Read More …

(Meet Mago Contributor) Susan Abbott

Susan Abbott catches her creative inspiration from the individual and collective genius of rebellious women. She works in a gynographic milieu that affirms their sacred incendiary spirit. Her watercolors are known for Read More …

(Prose) What is Apple Branch Dianic Witchcraft? By Deanne Quarrie, D. Min. HPS

Diana the Huntress

Dianic Witchcraft For every woman who calls herself Dianic, you will receive a different response to that question.  Rather than quote other sources, let me just create for you who Read More …

Bulletin Board

August 28, 2017 Dear Readers and Contributors, Return to Mago E-Magzine has moved to a server and is now up running again. If you still don’t see the new website, Read More …

(Essay) This Disease Cannot Be Excised: Countering Patriarchal Religion by Hearth Moon Rising

Painting of Virgin Mary

It is clear to many feminists that the most important and challenging avenues for pursuing women’s liberation in the twenty-first century are elimination of poverty and freedom from violence. Violence Read More …

(Prose) Dog Days, Holly, Spears and Swords by Deanne Quarrie, D.Min.

We are in what are called the “dog days” of summer. Imagine that the ancients thought that Sirius (one of the dog constellations) was the cause of the extra hot Read More …

(Prose) Tailtiu, Primal Earth Goddess for this Season by Deanne Quarrie

Wheat

We are approaching the season of Lughnasadh, also known as Lammas. This is the first of three harvest festivals. This one focuses on what we call the “first fruits”, those Read More …

(Prose) Fire, Her Bright Spirit by Deanne Quarrie

Center

In Celtic Tradition our world is composed of Three Realms, those of Land, Sea and Sky. In the midst of these Realms we find the Sacred Grove, the place of Read More …

(Prose) Cardea by Deanne Quarrie

“Ovid says of Cardea, apparently quoting a religious formula: ‘Her power is to open what is shut; to shut what is open.’ …” Robert Graves, in the White Goddess The Read More …

(Prose) Níðhöggr by Deanne Quarrie

Nidhogg

I am a student of Northern European/Old Icelandic Seidr. What I find particularly fascinating in my studies are not the deities but rather the creatures living on the World Tree Read More …