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January 2017

January 20, 2017

Adventures in Wortcunning: Story of Imbolc

Milk is called nature's most perfect food, and this is true for baby mammals and...

January 06, 2017

Adventures in Wortcunning: New Year Gratitudes

As if turning the page on the calendar could make a difference, my gratitude that...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Spicing up the Holidays

Pull together some ginger, cinnamon, a little clove, some nutmeg, cardamom and allspice; this one...

December 02, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Garden Therapy

So far, everything hurts. All the lessons, even the fun stuff, seems to have some...

November 2016

November 04, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Wortcunning or Gardening?

Did you think gardening would be like sitting for a cup of tea with Granny...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Witch, as in Craft

It’s Witch, as in Craft, not some horrey old hag, With a wart on her...

October 14, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Keek-Stane – Part III

Coming home from Starwood 2016 with an obsession to build the last of my PectiWita...

September 2016

September 02, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Keek-Stane (Part 2)

I made other magickal tools, and gave up on scrying as an object of desire......

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Curious Children

It seems education these days is focused mostly on getting the students in and out,...

August 05, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Keek Stane

I have been studying and practicing my magick for a long, long, time. If I...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Windows, Walls, and Doors

If you were to acquire a plot of land to live on for the rest...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Farther Down the Rabbit Hole … or, My Morning Commute

In this column, I have previously discussed my initial surprising forays into the world of...

June 03, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Is Magick Real?

Is magick real? This is a question I am asked all the time, and to...

May 2016

May 06, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Panic Mode

Have you ever gone into a panic about a perceived danger only to find out...

April 2016

April 01, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Weight of Glory

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." - CS...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: A Little Help-er

It is important to remember that we work magick all the time. Each choice and...

March 04, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Of Absinthe and Garden Laws

Allow me to introduce to you to the legendary Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and its distillation:...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: The First Groupies

The first groupies are collectively known as the nine Muses, and each is a specialist...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: A Writer’s Rendezvous

I sit now, in a wooden desk chair with arms. An old green “Quiet Riter”...

January 01, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Stiffening Resolve

This means only saying words to myself that I intend to be true. No use...

December 2015

December 04, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Planting a Virtual Garden

As evidence to my faith, I know my computer responds to moods by the consistent...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Speaking of Ancestors

As my daughter entered labor many miles from me, I stopped my daily routine to...

November 06, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Last Harvest

It is a seasonal thing. It comes and goes with the changing of shop window...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Harvesting Dreams

Like a guardian at the gates of the underworld, here mugwort waits to delve into...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: A Spot of Tea?

Like reading a story aloud, speaking a thing makes it somehow different outside my head....

September 04, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Spelling as Witchery

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: Embracing the White Sage

The first time I met White Sage was in the demonstration garden of my alma...

August 08, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Goddesses – Finding Home

There are over 350 representations of the Goddess in this collection. Most of them fit,...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: A Starwood Experience

Drums beating through the days and all along the nights become a tapestry for our...

July 03, 2015

Adventures in Wortcunning: The Myrtle of Venus & Bacchus’ Vine

In which Anne shares a bit of American history with us related to the original...