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August 2019

August 06, 2019

Magick IRL: Word Up, Witches

At the end of the day, however you choose to word your work is likely...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Phoenix Rising: Magick is Afoot!

It’s happened to most Pagans and witches I know. There comes a point in time...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

The DruWitch Way: In Search of the Black Dog

Our history with the black dog is possibly even longer than our history with canines...

May 2019

May 12, 2019

Radical Pantheist: Western Wizardry & the Evolution of the Craft

The evolution of the mystical arts can be hard to trace since the witch craze...

April 2019

April 18, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: You Are Witch Enough

If your questions make you feel unworthy or delegitimize your practice or path because of...

April 14, 2019

The Corner Crone: Imposter Syndrome and the Newbie Witch

There will come a moment when you as The Magician are going to have to...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Ode’s Story of Love and Gods (and teeth)

This is a story that I tell myself, in a hundred variations, because there is...

March 27, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Gender Non-Conforming Deities

I'm of the opinion that if more people would understand that there are more than...

March 27, 2019

Radical Pantheist: Radical Witchcraft, An Interview with Kristen Sollee

Witchcraft, however, can show us how our bodies can be vessels for dissent and forces...

March 21, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Feeling and Talking to Spirits

As a child, I'd go past a cemetery or into someone's home and there would...

March 18, 2019

Of Light & Shadow: Nephthys, Lady of the House

I distinctly remember the first time that I encountered Nephthys. She smiled at me as...

March 15, 2019

Omens & Oracles: Self Care, Also Known As Witchcraft

The whole self care movement, which is partly responsible for all those cool crystals, essential...

March 13, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Just Tell Me About Paganism!

Information is power right? Best to be prepared for when people come to us with...

March 11, 2019

Dance of the Maenad: Water Witchcraft

"Water Witchcraft" is the kind of book that you aren’t supposed to remember every bit...

March 09, 2019

The Corner Crone: Hekate, Is That You?

Some folks regularly experience vivid dreams, sometimes every night of the week. I’m not one...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Of Light & Shadow: Messages & Signs from Anubis

Signs are highly personal. The signs that the gods and spirits send to me may...

February 13, 2019

Omens & Oracles: The Witch’s Pyramid for Beginners

The Witch’s Pyramid is a good way to center your thoughts when you’re feeling lonely...

November 2017

November 13, 2017

Book of Blackbirds: Pumpkins, Squashes, and Witchettys

Some gourds are good for decorating up and making rattles and drums out of, too....

May 2017

May 07, 2017

Book Of Blackbirds: A Witch’s Tale

Magic always works better by cooperation than by force. In fact, trying to force magic...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Book of Blackbirds: Principles of Solitary Spellwork

The sort of magic I know and am most familiar with is a kind of...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

The Blooming Staff: Banish Trump, Exorcise Trump!

Occultists of all varieties need to banish the demonic principality of Donald Trump from our...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Book of Blackbirds: Fluffy Bunny Thoughts

I'll admit to having a few fluffy bunny tendencies. But, as a rule I don't...

January 24, 2017

The Blooming Staff: Crowley Didn’t Burn Hot Enough

Aleister Crowley is often labeled a Decadent for his obsession with sex magick. But traditional...

January 23, 2017

Star Made Witch: Creative Potion Making

Every potions master begins somewhere—I started just jumping in. Knowing that with enough trial and...

January 10, 2017

The Blooming Staff: On the Papal World-Tree, or, An Esoteric Meditation on the Papacy

Nicholas Laccetti reflects on the history of occult interpretations of the Papacy, and what the...

January 09, 2017

Star Made Witch: Five Witchcraft Resolutions for 2017

Many witches are feeling uncertainty for what the new year will hold. I'd like to...

December 2016

December 26, 2016

Star Made Witch: Magic on the Mountain

My relationship to my locale is literally physical. I live here. I work here. I...

December 13, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Prisca Theologia, Pansophy, and Integral Truth – Some Notes on Universal Reformation

Universal Reformation has been a goal throughout Western esoteric history: for Renaissance magi, for Rosicrucians,...

December 12, 2016

Star Made Witch: Goddesses, Mountains, and Potions

I’m an opportunist and my days have magical themes. Today it was: local landscape, wormwood...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

Star Made Witch: Potion Making

The manner in which a witch makes recipes into a spell is by carefully selecting...