Acupressure for the Spring

Posted on Thursday April 17, 2025

Saturday April 19, 2025, 2-4pm (Eastern time)

Catonsville Dojo, 6159-B Edmondson Avenue

Learn self-acupressure techniques with a focus on the spring season, focusing on the Liver and Gall Bladder meridians and the Wood phase of the Five Phases. As the energy of spring rises, it's important to free the flow and direct it along lines of growth and development. To be a seed below the ground, pushing upward into the sunlight, can be a frustrating experience; we need to channel those emotions.

Pay what you will; the suggested donation for this two hour class, available in person (at the Catonsville Dojo) or on-line via Zoom, is $35.

Comfort The Dying; We’re All Dying

Posted on Thursday March 13, 2025

It's a simple syllogism: Comfort the dying. Everyone is dying. Therefore, comfort everyone. In this time of increasing anger towards the "other" -- whether the "other" for you is the blue-haired non-binary person or the red-hatted MAGA voter -- it seems a radical idea.

Communication: A Sigil for 2025

Posted on Tuesday January 07, 2025

In a time when so many are deliberately cutting off communication -- calling for their political opponents to be censored, or celebrating the idea of going "no contact" with their families over political or cultural disagreements -- I think we need to take a stand for keeping the lines of communication open.

Fixing the Mailbox: A Holiday Omen

Posted on Tuesday December 31, 2024

So I'm making that my theme for 2025: communication. Let the way be opened, not just between the realm of spirit and the realm of humanity, but within the realm of humanity.Let's fix our mailboxes so we can receive messages from all over. We don't have to agree with the people sending those messages, but if we're going to solve our planetary problems, we have to hear the messages.

Masculine Archetypes: Trickster at Samhain & Election Day

Posted on Tuesday November 05, 2024

The Trickster generally doesn't make trouble so much as reveal the trouble inherent in the order of the world. The chaos is already there, but we want to sweep it under the rug, ignore it, pretend that the existing order of things is just and good.

Masculine Archetypes: The Warrior at Mabon

Posted on Sunday September 22, 2024

Of all the archetypes we're considering, the Warrior may be both the most problematic and the most promising. Why is the Warrior so fraught? Because the Powers That Be have always needed men to fight their wars....There are two words that we must focus on to understand the Warrior: "mission" and "boundaries".

Gratitude, Schmatitude

Posted on Thursday November 28, 2024

Don't tell me how to feel

Imane Khelif And The Paranoid Style In American Politics

Posted on Tuesday August 27, 2024

It has become the deep belief of many in Blue Tribe that Khelif is not intersex, but that she was falsely accused as part of a dastardly plot by Russia to boost its international prestige.

When censoring fascists, who gets to decide who's "fascist"?

Posted on Sunday May 30, 2021

Giving anyone the power to label someone "fascist" and censor them is far more of a threat than a handful of Nazi punks.

1917: The Real Start of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Posted on Monday May 24, 2021

The story starts with British imperialism

Police violence: seeing the fnords

Posted on Wednesday May 12, 2021

Imposition of Order = Escalation of Disorder. "Armed with the Law of Eristic Escalation and Fenderson’s Amendment any
imbecile – not just a sociologist – can understand politics."

"Who Are You" -- song by Tom Swiss

Posted on Sunday February 02, 2025

Part of my January 2025 "fun a day", an original song.

Tom Swiss - Poetry Open Mic at The Bun Shop, Apr 12 2024

Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2024

Reading three poems at the Bun Shop open mic, April 12 2024, Towson MD,

"Keep Going", a song by Tom Swiss

Posted on Wednesday January 24, 2024

Part 19 of the 2024 fun-a-day: a new song, "Keep Going". For everyone going through rough times.

When it seems you just can't catch a break
When the troubles just keep growing
When life seems like endless heartache When you're going through hell.... Keep going
Keep going
Keep going

The Magician At Midwinter (Masculine Archetypes Part 1).

Posted on Sunday December 24, 2023

The Magician At Midwinter. "The Magician is the keeper of hidden knowledge, the master of special skills and powers. He is the yin/yang compliment of the King. Where the King is a widely known public figure, the Magician is isolated in his tower, intent on his chosen field of study and artistry." Part 1 of a serious of 8 posts on the topic of archetypes of the mature sacred masculine I'll be doing over the coming year.

"Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia" (original song)

Posted on Sunday January 29, 2023

For the 2023 #FunADay project, a new song. A hymn of sorts to my patron Goddess, who asked me to remind you that you are free. Hail Eris!