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		<title>Medusa Magick for Sexual Sovereignty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Gloria Steinem’s legacy and the ancient Gorgon’s protective gaze, Heron Michelle introduces three lunar workings with Venus, Saturn, and Mars to cultivate Choice, establish Authority, and awaken Defense.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Witch Honors Dolly Parton among the Mighty Dead</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What makes Dolly an important interfaith exemplar is that she did not require everyone else to drink from the same well before she offered them water. Her public theology returned, again and again, to love, nonjudgment, human dignity, and the right of other people to be themselves. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>2027 Witch&#8217;s Wheel of the Year Calendar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heron Michelle's 2027 Witch's Wheel of the Year Calendar for modern magickal practitioners. Including the auspicious times and dates I recommend for powerful rites in the Northern Hemisphere; times given are for Eastern Time Zone. Includes sabbats, full and dark moon esbats, eclipses, and the direction of lunar leadership within zodiacal pairings.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Restoring the Watershed of Divine Love</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perhaps cooperation is not something we manufacture through legislation, ideology, or moral perfection. Perhaps it is an emergent property of healthy spiritual ecology.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Rough Music of the Digital Age</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The internet produces a kind of psychic indigestion. Information enters faster than discernment can process it. Emotional reactions surge before reflection has time to occur. The cauldron does not rush the soup, and neither should we...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Auspicious Timing: Planets, Days &#038; Signs for Magick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When is the best time to cast a spell? Many witches align their work with planetary days, lunar phases, zodiac signs, and other natural rhythms. Understanding these cycles can help magickal intentions flow with the tides of the cosmos rather than against them.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crafting Change with Magickal Herbal Incense</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Loose herbal incense is one of the oldest tools in magickal practice. By blending herbs, resins, and bark with intention—and sometimes under auspicious planetary timing—witches create fragrances that shape the atmosphere of ritual and meditation. Here is how elemental incense blends work and how you can craft or work with them in your own practice.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Perfect Love &#038; Trust in an Age of Fear</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2026/02/perfect-love-trust-age-of-fear/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A witch’s ethical reckoning with modern America through the Nine Divine Love Conditions—REAL STAAR—and the challenge of living in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Triple Goddess as a Hermetic Key to the Mysteries</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2026/02/triple-goddess-hermetic-key/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Triple Goddess has never been as tidy as we pretend. Maiden, Mother, Crone may look like a clean three-act structure, but lived experience is far messier — and far more interesting. What if the ancient rhythm beneath her masks is not a rigid life-stage model, but a living cycle of Generation, Organization, and Dissolution? In this essay, I revisit the archetype, the debates around it, and the deeper current of magickal becoming that runs beneath the surface.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Elemental Witchcraft on The Occult Rejects Podcast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Western occultism has spent much of the last two centuries refining systems of analysis, hierarchy, and individual power. In my recent appearance on The Occult Rejects podcast, I explore why Elemental Witchcraft was written as a response to the next turn of that cycle — a movement away from separation and toward integration, cooperation, and relational magick. Drawing on Hermetic symbolism and the classical elements as modes of consciousness, this conversation looks at how witchcraft and ceremonial magic can function as complementary paths within a living, evolving occult tradition.]]></description>
		
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