The Wild Blackthorn Tradition

05/04/2026

There is a conversation happening right now in witchcraft spaces about hexing MAGA. Should we hex the head directly? Should we bind? Should we throw everything we have at the target and trust in ou…

05/04/2026

The Living Current: Pop culture Magick & Mythology Returns - May 4th
Session 3: The Warrior’s Path
Sovereignty, Vow, and Sacred Service

What does it mean to be a warrior?
“A warrior is someone who has made a conscious commitment to stand between what they love and what threatens it, and has done the inner work to be capable of that stand.”

In Session 3 of the Living Current series, we explore the warrior path through the lens of pop culture, and discover that many of us have been walking it for years without knowing what to call it.

We’ll explore:
• What a warrior actually is, and why nobody in the room is exempt from this path
• The warrior in pagan and magical practice
• The peaceful warrior, the reframe that opens the door for everyone
• Faces of the warrior in pop culture: the battle mage, the paladin, the fallen warrior, the reluctant warrior, the sovereign warrior, the shadow warrior, and more
• How to work with the warrior current magically, pop culture figures as genuine allies, ancestor warrior working, and the working framework you can adapt for your own practice
• A guided meditation to meet your own warrior current
• A take-home self knighting ritual, for when you’re ready to claim the path
You have always been standing there. This class gives you the name for it.

All levels welcome.

📅 Monday, May 4, 2026
🕖 7:00 - 9:00 PM EST
💻 Zoom link on cwpn.org
🎤 Recorded and available to members via CWPN Discord

04/20/2026

⚡ The Living Current: Session 2 : Light, Shadow, and the Space Between ⚡
George Lucas built Star Wars using Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey as a deliberate blueprint. Campbell knew it. Lucas confirmed it. And millions of people have been living inside that mythological architecture their entire lives without knowing it.
Session 2 of The Living Current goes deep into the Force as genuine magical philosophy. The Jedi and Sith codes are not just plot dressing. They are two complete and coherent frameworks for understanding will, emotion, power, and spiritual discipline. And the tension between them is one of the most instructive polarities in modern myth.
We will cover:
The Jedi and Sith codes as genuine philosophical and magical frameworks
Will vs. Wisdom, Passion vs. Peace: working with polarity in your practice
Shadow work through the dark side lens
Leia as a complete mythic feminine: warrior, general, mother, Force wielder
The Gray path as integration of opposites
Recommended before class: Watch the Bill Moyers and George Lucas interview on the Mythology of Star Wars. Link will be in the Session 1 handout.
Open to all levels. You do not need to have attended Session 1 to join us, though the series builds across all six sessions.
📅 Monday, April 20th | 7-9pm EST
💻 Via Zoom
🔗 cwpn.org
Free and open to all. Offered through the Connecticut Welcoming and Pagan Network (CWPN)

04/07/2026

Beyond Belief: What Faith Actually Looks Like in Magickal Practice

There is a conversation happening right now in witchcraft spaces about hexing MAGA. Should we hex the head directly? Should we bind? Should we throw everything we have at the target and trust in our collective power? These are not small questions. Before we can answer them well, we need to talk about something more fundamental. We need to talk about the difference between belief and faith, and why confusing the two is part of how we got into this mess in the first place....

There is a conversation happening right now in witchcraft spaces about hexing MAGA. Should we hex the head directly? Should we bind? Should we throw everything we have at the target and trust in ou…