Confessions of an American Witch

We are going to have a drumming and potluck on September 19, 2026 to celebrate my clean colon screening, and Khari's continued good fortune at her job teaching.  No cats or spells will be harmed at this event. For those who have not memorized my announcement, here goes . . . The address is 2727 N. Cook St., Denver, Colorado 80205. We are just north of the Denver zoo and city golf course, on 27th and Cook. It's an alley house, so it's all front yard; no back yard, but we do have a patio back behind the art studio that we are using for hanging out. Combination of an art gallery and an occult shop that I spent a lot of time class time in, the vibe was something I wanted in my own place. Close friends and work volunteers will show up at 4 pm, others will start to drift in at 5 pm. The potluck begins at 6 pm, and school teacher Khari likes the main event to begin on her planned on schedule 7pm.  Please note that it's a drumming, so people can drift in as late as 9 pm.  The g...

There was definitely a winner at last month's Smash a Pot to celebrate Gena Marie getting new kidneys. It was whoever got this potter shard on the studio roof.  Nice color, ain't it? You have to be impressed. Not only did they have to get it up there, they had to get it around the corner from the original angle. It's a little distance--a trick shot, if you were trying on purpose. It's the Olympics! Picture thy enemy's face. Clear the firing range. Why would potters and their friends threw pottery at walls? They claim it's to create pieces for artwork that they plan on doing. I have never actually seen any such work ever made. It might just be a myth. Let's just call this "art."

 Here is a pile of pottery that Khari has reserved for tomorrow's Smash-a-Pot ritual to celebrate our friend getting her new kidneys. We are going to toss these pieces of ceramics at a wall to break them into smaller pieces. Because it's fun to do. And once in the pile of tossing, it can't be removed--sorry. Broken and rejected pottery.

Our second garden party of the 2026 season (July 18) will be celebrating Gena Marie getting her new kidneys. She was on the list for several years waiting for new kidneys, and finally got them. Yay! Khari has decided that besides the potluck, we are doing a pot smash. So we will be smashing all the "seconds" (pottery that came out of the kiln flawed), symbolizing the negative stuff in our lives going away. It's a fun ritual that I have never been able to do at an OFM (Open Full Moon) at a rented location because of the clean up (churches and spiritual centers frown on the broken pottery shards). But we have a nice wall to use just outside of the studio, so we can smash away. And we own the property, so we can do whatever we want to. Hence, smashing pottery is a go.  Location: 2727 N. Cook St., Denver, CO 80205 Date: July 18, 2026 Time: 6pm to 9pm.  Cost: Bring a pot, or plate to smash, if you have one to spare. The more, the merrier. 

 Given my multiple month silence on this blog, and its recent birthday, let's do a status update. Khari's Garden with a little grape vine. We are still doing the Garden Parties. Because Khari gets bored without friends and company around. The same reason that she is polyamourous---and I am not. All my events have been killed, and with good reason . . . a colon test came back bad, so I have a physical health problem on top of the mental ones. Oh, and me blogging about my secret Mormon daughter and wife for the first time in 22 years was me being Paranoid Delusional, according to a newly minted medical doctor who never saw me before, who checked with other expert, who did not speak to me. Took me off the majority of my meds (bipolar and anxiety/panic) and put me on an anti-psychotic that crashed a brick through my sphere of sensation. The proof that I was delusional was that Khari could not verify that my daughter, Zee, existed. Because I had never talked to her, or anyone, about...

We will be doing a Garden Party/ Drumming/ Ritual on June 13, 2026. At the moment, the guest list is mostly Dragonfest staff, due to Khari being involved with Kidfest; but I am open to showing off the garden to anyone who shows up . . . because I am lonely.  Oregano--how big will it be in a month? The potluck is "cover your own dietary needs first." Khari is gluten-free, wheat-free, soy-free, due to IBS. So she will probably make a dish along those lines for us. That or we will be BBQing all beef hot dogs.  The ritual will be whatever the mood is, but I fairly sure that there will be some drumming.  June 13, 2026 2727 N. Cook St. Denver, Colorado 80205 Helpers and close friends show up at 5pm. Regular folks at 6pm. Khari likes the ritual/ drumming to start at 7 pm. Closing at 9 pm. Lockdown at 10 pm. 

 After the drama of multiple schedule, "It's on--it's off because Khari's a fickle artist," one might be interested in how my scheduled Golden Dawn study night went off. Or not.  Pretend to be as interested as this chick here. Could it be godform coloring night? First, let me get my grief about the event scheduling out of the way. I wanted a regular schedule, and Khari's an artist with an health condition who wants to be able to "on-and-off" her event as she wishes. Therefore, there is no long term advertising, just short. Not exactly how my style of marketing works. The few people on my level Hermetic Golden Dawn, or working Thelema, in the Denver, Colorado area is rare; and my joke about my most interested reader being an FBI agent, reporting to the President, could be a sad truth (occult writers profiting from black magick books are considered to be a threat according to some police departments--more so than the death threats that the author is ge...

For those of you who cannot attend my Open Full Moon events because you live on the moon, or work for our Commander-in-Chief, or simply have common sense, here is what you missed . . . or didn't miss at the cancelled (or not) Open Full Moon in August. These choke cherries are ripe. And this choke cherry tree is in wrong place. If you would have showed up in person on the Friday, Saturday, or the Sunday of August (7, 8. or 9th), you might have been put to work. Unless you were Car Rat . . . sorry, I would not want her touching my babies. Because we were doing whole tree harvesting here. This was a year that I wished my kin was closer because I got a Harry Potter wand out of this. Maybe some runes--depends on how they carve, or burn after drying. In my head, I was discussing the hows and whys of what we were doing with an invisible grandson or granddaughter. Sad, but true. Someone of Harry Potter age. Because how hard it was to get these out, me and Khari might never any reach this s...

 Just in case, I wasn't clear in some of my previous posts, while the Wiccan Open Full Moons that we were hosting have been cancelled, the Golden Dawn study is still on. Isis always plays three games at the same time; it's not cheating. Yes, the remote and (if anyone shows up) local Denver study of the Papyrus of Ani as Source Code for Hermetic Golden Dawn is still happening. I did not cancel my project. Just Khari's. After all, she's the one that's investing in Dragonfest as if it's going to lead to new members. It won't. If it does, then she deserves to be elected Hierophant.  Sadly, my nearly thirty years of experience in the Denver's Wiccan event community tells me that Dragonfest people only do Dragonfest--nothing else.  They only have time and energy for Dragonfest.  And there are organizational meetings all year round, so it's an all year commitment. No, we just lost Khari as the next Hierophant. Hence, if I attract members who want to elect m...

Attention all students: Posted in the page section is the book list for the Fall 2025 Golden Dawn Remote and Local  Study Group . We meet once a month, starting in September. Look for a James Wasserman edition of the Book of the Dead. For those can, either in person here in Denver, or in astral form, starting September 6, 2025, I will be starting an once an month study involving books, going out in the studio, and performing a ritual, etc. Therefore, I will "heavy lodge study" on Full Moon Saturday  until the end of 2025. Whether I go past that point will depend on how much material that I have discovered, or response, or some other measurement.  I doubt Khari will be a real factor. She says there a desire to study, but she's banking on Dragonfest . . . and Dragonfest people get sucked into that Commitment Black Hole.  No, Walnut Community Church is now a cover just in case I make money as a esoteric teacher, nothing more . . . it's not to exist because I needed a sp...

Let it be declared from the East: The Hierophant of Bast Temple has cancelled August 9, 2025 Open Full Moon. Reason? It's too close to the end of Dragonfest. Which is important. I am never going to get this ever again. Because Khari believes that Dragonfest people are going to sign up for her classes.  Basically, cutting me out of the teaching loop, right? No one from that crowd will be Thelemic or Hermetic . . . or anything that I am selling . . . it's a waste for me, simply the wrong audience bucket. But Khari insists that the business has to go this way. Because the pottery artist slash witch knows best. Not the Confidence Artist who has dreamed of owning an occult shop and esoteric school since 1984--no, it has to be her--and her ever random whim that has to be the correct business plan.  The amount of work that woman has made me trash over the years. And here I am again . . . no stable event schedule because Khari demands having my business have Stop and Go Scheduling to ...

Some people are born farmer's sons in America; some are the nephew of Gardnerian Wiccans--and imagine that in 1965 Nebraska . . . yeah, I was born demonic. My witchy aunt represented America to me. My aunt, Victoria Josephine Ramalia, declared me, a reincarninated witch, just like herself. She hated children--yet loved me. This mystified my mother. I loved my aunt.  One of my prize possessions, the first thing I made sure to recover the one time I returned home for Christmas after my military escape, was my Red Piggy Bank that she gave me. A ruling question of my childhood was "Why can the Christians have their Ten Commandments at the county courthouse; and not us, our Horned God?"  At age thirteen, I consciously chose the religion of witchcraft . . . in part to be like Vickie. Then in my freshman semester of high school, my aunt got murdered.  And my family, in their grief, blamed it on her religion. I got broom closeted. Satanist. That is what my religion became. And my...