Zine Time!
I've been working on my first issue of my zine, Cross Quarterly. It's a zine about magic and spirituality from a progressive, interfaith perspective. I plan to mostly write the editor's note, one feature per issue, and an interview with someone who has an interesting perspective on magic. I have very tentative plans to interview someone Super Famous in time for the April issue, but I won't tempt fate by posting the person's name here. I will say that if I met this person unprepared in a coffee shop that I would probably "squee," stare, and then run out of the building. I'm hoping to keep it together during our interview, though I'm envisioning the SNL skit of Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney replaying.
Other writers will write the well researched articles with citations (a friend is doing a wonderful one on Samhain from a Gaelic polytheistic reconstructionist view for this issue), the tried and true spells, and divination tips. I, on the other hand, will be writing what I wanted to read most as a new witch and what I still love to read; personal stories. I remember hiding a copies of magic books between my mattress and box spring in middle school, sneaking it out, and reading and rereading stories about witches and their witchy adventures. The spells they cast, the students they taught, the clients they helped. I felt like I was listening in, and I dreamed of a day when I would know real pagans in person, cast circles, and feel magic. Now that I do know and practice with other pagans in real life, I feel the need to share our adventures, so that other little witchlings can listen in, too.
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Other writers will write the well researched articles with citations (a friend is doing a wonderful one on Samhain from a Gaelic polytheistic reconstructionist view for this issue), the tried and true spells, and divination tips. I, on the other hand, will be writing what I wanted to read most as a new witch and what I still love to read; personal stories. I remember hiding a copies of magic books between my mattress and box spring in middle school, sneaking it out, and reading and rereading stories about witches and their witchy adventures. The spells they cast, the students they taught, the clients they helped. I felt like I was listening in, and I dreamed of a day when I would know real pagans in person, cast circles, and feel magic. Now that I do know and practice with other pagans in real life, I feel the need to share our adventures, so that other little witchlings can listen in, too.
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