Temenos Silybos: Grove of the Blessed Thistle

Temenos Silybos: Grove of the Blessed Thistle The Brotherhood is a male initiatory tradition. The Minoan Brotherhood is a fraternal mystery tradition for men who love men.

Timenes Silybos, Grove of the Blessed Thistle, is a grove of the Minoan Brotherhood serving the Greater New Orleans metro area, as well as southern Louisiana and Mississippi. The United Rite‘s mission is to support, educate, and empower q***r men through the power of witchcraft and the ancient arts. Our roots are in British Traditional Witchcraft. Our grove of the Minoan Brotherhood serves the Gre

ater New Orleans region, including southern Mississippi. For more information on the United Rite or the New Orleans's Grove, visit our site. We publish a free monthly newsletter on each full moon. Sign up via the link above or at our site.

🧘‍♂️ May we be free of suffering; may we feel safe and still. May we be free of enmity; may we be loving, grateful and k...
06/03/2026

🧘‍♂️ May we be free of suffering; may we feel safe and still. May we be free of enmity; may we be loving, grateful and kind. May we be healthy and at ease in all our ills. May we be at peace, embracing all conditions of life. 🙏🏻

New blog post: The Lightning-Struck TreeAs storm season gathers over New Orleans, we reflect on the old image of the lig...
05/17/2026

New blog post: The Lightning-Struck Tree

As storm season gathers over New Orleans, we reflect on the old image of the lightning-struck tree: a symbol of disruption, divine power, and transformation. From early tarot’s La Foudre to sacred oak lore, Irminsûl, Seahenge, and ritual practice, this piece explores what happens when heaven strikes the rooted world below.

Read the full post here: https://unitedrite.org/index.php/2026/05/16/the-lightning-struck-tree/

St. Expedité, thank you for your intercession. Accept these gifts in gratitude for your aid.
04/07/2026

St. Expedité, thank you for your intercession. Accept these gifts in gratitude for your aid.

Spring greetings from the New Orleans Grove. ***rwitchcraft
04/02/2026

Spring greetings from the New Orleans Grove. ***rwitchcraft

I just learned that my presentation has been accepted for this year's Mystic South conference in July! Hope you can join...
04/02/2026

I just learned that my presentation has been accepted for this year's Mystic South conference in July! Hope you can join me in Atlanta.

Title: Q***r Witchcraft: Ancestral Resistance, Living Legacy

Details: https://mystic-south.com/

Latest book available from What’s the United Rite all about? An introduction to the UR’s basic philosophy and practice.
03/29/2026

Latest book available from What’s the United Rite all about? An introduction to the UR’s basic philosophy and practice.

It's certainly been a cold Candlemas, here in New Orleans! Has me thinking of how times like these need to bring us toge...
02/02/2026

It's certainly been a cold Candlemas, here in New Orleans! Has me thinking of how times like these need to bring us together, not separate. New blog post:

Imbolc, or Candlemas, represents the dark womb of the year. We light a candle in this long night, knowing the days are getting longer and the promise of spring lies somewhere past the horizon. This is a time to remember hope in the darkest, coldest, harshest of times—and this hope is precisely why we have so many prognosticatory traditions associated with early February: the groundhog seeing his shadow, or Candlemas being fair and bright, meaning winter will take another flight.

Coming together for the Winter Lights festival is a communal acknowledgement that this, too, shall pass. We are indeed in dark times. We may feel that we live in occupied territory. As our ancestors cared for one another in times of privation, our coming together is key to our survival and sanity. In this moment of darkness, we turn to an ancient truth: that brotherhood—sacred, mystical, and defiant—has always been a light in the darkness for those who love outside the boundaries prescribed by the powerful.

Full blog post available at the United Rite:
https://unitedrite.org/index.php/2026/02/01/lighting-candles-under-a-snow-moon/

Each full moon, we share a new post at The United Rite. This month: “Winter’s First Descent Through the Dolmen Arch.”As ...
11/15/2025

Each full moon, we share a new post at The United Rite. This month: “Winter’s First Descent Through the Dolmen Arch.”

As the veil of autumn lifts and the first cool hush of winter settles over the land, we cross a seasonal threshold. The first month of winter is not just a time of cold and retreat; it is a passage into the sacred tomb. We pass through the dolman arch into the barrow mound of the yearly cycle. It is the descent into the Earth’s dreaming body, where silence reigns and the seeds of rebirth are held in darkness.

This is the time of Samhain and Yule, when the sun wanes and the nights stretch long. Nature folds inward. The leaves have fallen, the harvest is stored, and the soil lies fallow. We enter the tomb not in fear, but in reverence. It is here, in the womb of stone and shadow, that the mysteries of life and death whisper their truths...

Read the rest at The United Rite.

(Photo: La Roche-aux-Fees (the fairies’ rock) in Brittany, France)

“In these pages, you will find wisdom and defiance drawn from the enduring legacy of witches who came before us. This is...
07/27/2025

“In these pages, you will find wisdom and defiance drawn from the enduring legacy of witches who came before us. This is not just a book—it is a call to action, an invocation of power, and a reminder that magic is, at its core, transformative.” –from the foreword by Dave Gaddy author of The Simple Magick of Wild Things: The Journey of a Southern Male Wytch. Puck You published by ***rwitch

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