ahrfoundation.org’s second birthday

ahrfoundation.org was first launched on October 31st, 2007, today marks its second birthday.

It’s gone through periods of hyperactivity and lagging for months without posts, but I think we’ve entered into a decent  rhythm now. I’ve found it to be quite a learning curve, despite beginning my first blog in 2001, but it’s also been a lot of fun.

Write for us!

We’ve had guest bloggers in the past, but I’d like to open the blog up to anyone who’s interested in writing for it, be it a guest post or a regular column.

We’ve submission guidelines posted, but if you’ve been reading for a few weeks or – how exciting – since the beginning, then you probably have a good idea of the sorts of things we write about here.¹

If you’re interested, all you have to do is register, or log in if you’re already registered, and write. Users who’ve had commenting accounts before have all been upgraded to Contributor status, so if you want to use the same name, by all means please do.

Past, present and future

Our layout has changed over the past two years from copious categories and tags to a more streamlined approach. As such, right now most entries fall into one of the following four designations:

• Essays & Opinion, which  features longer articles about current trends in occulture and essays on techniques;
• News & Shiny, which highlights people, podcasts, books, art, websites – anything that may be of interest to occultniks
• Our Reviews section covers book reviews, oracle reviews, film reviews and media reviews of all types;
• and last but not least, Saturday Signal is our occasional links round-up of the new and nifty that didn’t quite warrant a dedicated post of its own.

I like our current set up, but there’s always room for improvement, and I’d like to know more about what you’d like to see on ahrfoundation.org. What are we not covering that you want see, or, what are we doing that you would like more of? What sucks and should be reduced? Or perhaps there are layout issues that could be improved upon?

It’s ahrfoundation.org’s birthday. Give it to ‘er hard.

Oh, happy days

So, this is our second birthday.

Here in Toronto the leaves are falling and my street is orange with leaves I can’t identify because I’m a city girl.The houses are decorated in delightfully spooky ways. After attending a round table at the IFOA this afternoon, I plan to dress as a goth pirate and scare children who would extort from me my husband’s candy. It will be excellent.

I also intend to sit down and finish a nostalgia piece about chaos magick for Monday’s Essay & Opinion post. I intend continue with this blog for the foreseeable future. Often blogs come and go, but I enjoy this. I like the conversations it starts, both on this blog and off, on IM, on Facebook, on Twitter.

Thanks for making this worth doing.

Footnotes:

1. I keep saying “we”, but aside from our fab guest bloggers, this has always been a one-woman operation. “We” somehow makes it seem like a bigger op, n’est pas? Oh pretension! Let’s be a real “we”. It’ll be great! [back]

Psyche is the editor of ahrfoundation.org and the curator for the occult resource SpiralNature.com, Psyche also operates a tarot consultation business, Psyche Tarot. She has been published in The Cauldron, Konton, Tarot World Magazine, among other magazines, and her essay “Strategic Magick” appeared in Manifesting Prosperity (Megalithica, 2008).

Psyche's website is http://www.ahrfoundation.org.