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		<title>Miracles Are Only Temporary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Always Roaming With A Hungry Heart]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even miracles, it turns out, are only temporary. It's tempting to get angry about that, to shake a fist at the sky and demand an answer from the universe about how it can give us something wonderful and then take it away.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thank You, Ms. G.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[She's not the first regular patient of mine there to pass on, but she was only in her mid 40s, with kids still in school; that hits different. It is an honor and a blessing and a privilege to do this work. But today, no question, it kicked me in the heart.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Partnering Up in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2017 52 Makeup]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We have to work together. The system of exploitative capitalism, the "1%" that runs the world is quite happy to see people squabbling, "canceling" each other over culture war issues, staying lonely and perplexed, fearful and suspicious of each other.

So I offer this theme for the year and this sigil, to manifest partnership in different aspects of life -- both being open to finding partners for life, for business, for artistic creation, for magick, for building a better world, for all these things -- and also trying to be a good partner myself.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Holiday Lights, Solstice Fires, and Jizo&#8217;s Jewel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Because I Could Not Stop For Death]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I turned on the holiday lights and set up my little Winter Solstice ritual of keeping candles and oil lamps going through the night, to guide back the sun. Back in January 2017, I started another holiday tradition of leaving my lights on through Imbolc (which I’ve always taken as February 2, Candlemas and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Comfort The Dying; We&#8217;re All Dying</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Communication: A Sigil for 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fixing the Mailbox: A Holiday Omen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Masculine Archetypes: Trickster at Samhain &#038; Election Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Discordianism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Masculine Archetypes: The Warrior at Mabon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warrior Path]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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".]]></description>
		
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		<title>Masculine Archetypes: The Captain at Lughnasadh</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Swiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Captain is in the field or on the ship with those he leads, in the fray with them, leading the charge. And the Captain cares directly for his men. He is mentor and caretaker, even if he can also be a stern taskmaster. The captain goes down with the ship because he puts his men ahead of himself. But as a leader of Warriors, he puts the mission before all.]]></description>
		
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