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June 2019

June 05, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Connecting to House Spirits and Land Spirits

It's meaningless to make a lot of effort to connect to spirits of exotic places...

May 2019

May 06, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Circle Casting – Water and Walking

I've never done well with practices I've been expected to do by rote without a...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: What Is A Fairy?

The best way to understand what fairies are is to appreciate the nuances. There is...

April 02, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Emergency Magic on the Go-The Magic Kit

An emergency magic kit is a simple thing, inexpensive (mine is anyway), and useful, especially...

March 2019

March 19, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: The Right and Wrong of Fictional Fairies

Fairies are a hot topic in fantasy and urban fantasy and have been for decades,...

March 19, 2019

Hearth of Hellenism: Discreet Devotion

In an ideal world worshiping the Gods in the open should be effortless. Unfortunately for...

March 03, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies, Gender Identity, and Sexuality

Fairies have always represented the liminal, the outliers, the forbidden, and the things disallowed by...

March 01, 2019

Book of Blackbirds: Faeries and Elves, Revisited

We can find real magic in these connections with others, and in our connections with...

February 2019

February 19, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies, Tradition & Popculture

Just because a belief is new doesn't mean it's wrong anymore than a belief being...

February 05, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Irish Pagan Resources

I'm going to list a variety of multi-media Irish Pagan resources that I really like....

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Paganism That Isn’t Focused On Gods

My daily life, for the most part, isn't about gods by any name or guise...

January 02, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Sacred Sites – When The Spirits Make You Unwelcome

When I read accounts of travel to sacred sites one thing I don't often see...

December 2018

December 17, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Shadow & Light, Crafting A Fey Winter Solstice

The winter solstice this year for me is different and new. I went to Iceland...

December 04, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Top 5 Modern Misunderstandings About Fairies

Most misunderstandings of fairies are rooted in confusion via popular culture over the last hundred...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Be Your Own Spiritual Leader

When we start to give up our spiritual autonomy to any other mortal I think...

November 06, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Witchcraft with Fairies; Walking the Wild Woods

There is a long history of witches working with fairies in various ways, both learning...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Witchcraft, Samhain, and Uncertain Times

Samhain is a time that is marked as one of the significant turning points of...

October 01, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Adventures with the Hiddenfolk in Iceland

If you go to Iceland and are particularly sensitive to the Hiddenfolk brace yourself in...

September 2018

September 17, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: When The Morrigan Calls

For people who are new to paganism or new to the Morrigan more generally having...

September 05, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairy Queens, Folklore, and Popculture

I might argue that for us to move forward successfully as a spiritual movement we...

August 2018

August 18, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: The Good and the Bad of Fairy Work

Speaking for the kind of Otherworldly beings I deal with danger and blessing are two...

August 08, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Witchy Life Hacks

I've found things like this are good options for keeping little bits of magic going...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Defining Witchcraft, General and Personal

It's like a zen koan in a way: what is witchcraft? Of course everyone will...

July 05, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Confessions of a Bad Witch

No one is perfect and no one's witchcraft practice is perfect either, at least no...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Midsummer, the Fair Folk, and Some Advice

Midsummer is one of the times of year – and there are several – where...

June 03, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Acceptability Politics and Being a Goth Witch

Acceptability politics and gatekeeping are not doing witchcraft any favors. I strongly believe that rather...

May 2018

May 13, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Salt and Sea-Journeying in Ireland

A few weeks ago I was fortunate to be part of a sacred sites tour...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Open Q and A (The Morrigan, The Fair Folk, & More)

Your questions about The Morrigan, the Fair Folk, and more answered.

April 17, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: Being Pagan And Visiting a Sacred Site

As people who are choosing to go to these places, possibly even as an act...

April 02, 2018

Irish-American Witchcraft: My Beliefs Aren’t Yours – And That’s Okay

My beliefs aren't yours, and that's okay. We don't have to believe all the same...