Confessions of an American Witch

The other day, I made the mistake of looking at the Great Gherkin's website. To see if he was alive. Because he accounts for a significant amount of my pageviews on my old Gleamings from the Dawn blog. Is he (and his model wife) still selling what I was complaining that they were hawking back in the day? No, the video title was about a mind virus. It seems that the Great Gherkin is selling sci fi in the second era of Trump. Probably with Democrats as the alien invaders. I didn't watch the video.  That wasn't my problem with his page. The Great Gherkin will be the Great Gherkin. No, speaking as a teacher that wrote a piece for the Hermetic Golden Dawn Flying Roll commentary book, my issue is the idea that for less than three hundred US dollars, a student can get access to all lessons of every Grade of the HGD system, just so the Pickle can include GD membership as a bonus material to his current scam. How did I get into this book?!? That the understanding of the Golden Dawn ...

While I like to pretend that I am a good guy, a Star Trek type of guy, I am not. A work in progress--nice disguise, right? In reality, if you talk to anyone who knows me, Billie Bones, the Great Gherkin, Catherine Mock, Amy Harper, you know, the people that have banned me under Safe and Sober, he's harming both adults and children, showing up falling down drunk, never once contributed to the community . . . nice, got a screenshot of that Facebook libel and slander . . . I am a dirty Sith, as was my mentor, Maggie Moonstone; and we fought an Open War to destroy their groups, the only communities that should have any say in the future in occultism and paganism. We, Maggie and me, unfairly targeted them with our criticism.  After all, these Holy Leaders can do whatever they want, Do Wilt They Wilt to their communities without informing their membership, including banning spiritual teachers for not kissing their ass well enough at an OFM (Open Full Moon), and cite safety.  The Saf...

Correction of retraction (June 7, 2025 : As you read this post, please remember that I suffered a health crisis last year, and easily misunderstand comments on occasion. While my plans for Day C, courses for Khari's occult shop, and pagan church are still on, now that Khari understands my urgent need to have community around me, I am leaving this post up as evidence of the sorry state of my mind after the events of 2024. LVX.  Retraction of previous announcements (June 5, 2025): Day C Golden Dawn Outer and Inner events are cancelled.  Reason: Morgan does not want to work with Golden Dawn, whether Hermetic, Thelemic, Egyptian, or otherwise, because Khari does not want to--and she assumes he feels the same way. Therefore, Khari made a $100,000 business decision for Morgan . . . without asking him about economic realities of the local market, or the assets that we already had. Therefore, Morgan will not own an independent occult shop, or write classes.  Khari wants a comfort...

 For those of you have missed Denver weather, it's thunder and heavy rain today.  But ha, Mother Nature, I outwitted you--I got my wife to get the plants in the ground before spring monsoon season started. We win! And Selene, Khari's friend's safe in the studio for her Teacher Approval Test. Khari has been helping her study all season.  It's raining cats and dogs.