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December 2019

December 16, 2019

Cross and Crossroads: Preparing For a Paranormal Investigation

Every day in America, someone experiences a haunting. No matter how your haunting came about,...

December 12, 2019

Simple Witchery: Following The Light . . .

The Wheel of the Year in its simplest analogy is about the procession and recession...

December 12, 2019

The DruWitch Way: 3 Magickal Things To Do With Holly This Christmas

The Holly is a very magickal tree and considering its prevalence in festive decorations it's...

December 11, 2019

The Corner Crone: Holidays or Wholly Dazed?

At this time of year, particularly in America, we are just about at the tippy-top...

December 11, 2019

Radical Pantheist: The Radical’s Guide to Surviving Family Holidays

I wish you a holiday season full of joy, but in case things aren’t so...

December 09, 2019

The DruWitch Way: It Doesn’t Have to Be Big to Be Meaningful

It's time we took the pressure off and used the coming of the light to...

December 07, 2019

Druid in the City: Nature is All Around

I often hear from people who seem to believe that you can’t be an urban...

December 05, 2019

The Corner Crone: Tiptoeing Toward the Otherfolk

I’ll be straight-up honest with you: since childhood the Otherworld and its denizens, the Otherfolk,...

December 03, 2019

Creating Synthesis: YOU Are the CREATIVE Magick-Maker of Your Life!

Creativity is the most primal force of magic which we use to fuel our magick....

December 02, 2019

Cross and Crossroads: No Shame In Budget Brujeria

Picture it, Louisiana 1837. Slaves had nothing. No money, no freedom, no homeland, and certainly...

December 01, 2019

Phoenix Rising: Releasing Shadows – Lessons From A Jazz Funeral

The jazz funeral has very clear-cut transitions which facilitate an outlet for grieving what has...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Living the Liminal: The 100 Mile Witch

This Witches’ New Year has begun as of Samhain, and it’s always a good time...

November 24, 2019

Cross and Crossroads: Why Isn’t My Love Spell Working?

Any professional witch will tell you that love spells are the number one most requested...

November 18, 2019

The Balancing Path: Unconventional Tools and Altar Supplies

The only essential for magical or p-word practice is yourself. Everything else is icing on...

November 18, 2019

Cross and Crossroads: A Guide to Using Magick for Social Justice

As witches we are guardians of the marginalized and the oppressed, these folks who exist...

November 16, 2019

Druid in the City: Seasons in the City

I believe that it’s important for us to adjust and adapt our practices to our...

November 16, 2019

The Corner Crone: Happy Circumstance or Magic?

Not every brush with Deity is otherworldly. If we dismiss those times when Deity stretches...

November 14, 2019

Simple Witchery: Simple Offerings—What You Bring to the Altar

I often see questions from new witches about what to offer to their deities, guides,...

November 13, 2019

Living the Liminal: Fear Opens the Gate to Change

Fear is part of the initiatory experience, and particularly noticeable within ecstatic practices that involve...

November 08, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: The Birds of Rhiannon

I’ve been puzzled by some personal gnosis to do with Rhiannon for ages, because it...

November 05, 2019

The Balancing Path: Many Ways to Perceive Energy

How do you perceive energies? Do you predominantly filter those perceptions through one physical sense,...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Magick IRL: I Remember Halloween

I remember Halloween. That might not be very witchy for a lot of people, but...

October 29, 2019

Simple Witchery: Favored or Forsaken – When Tragedy Strikes

In the dark cave of my grief, I still wanted to know why me, why...

October 29, 2019

The Balancing Path: Mourning & Commemorating Transitions at Samhain

We don’t get to choose to what we mourn. We can’t help the fact that...

October 26, 2019

Starry Eyed Witch: The Banshee Screams for You

If the surviving Morrigan mythology tells us anything it is of the ferocity of warfare,...

October 23, 2019

The Corner Crone: Samhain-palooza and Expectations

Your “Samhain Moment” may not happen exactly on Samhain. If we slow ourselves down in...

October 22, 2019

Between Two Worlds: Gender Dysphoria, Death and Samhain

I'm not fond of Samhain. For me, I remember too many transgender women and men...

October 21, 2019

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies and Samhain

Samhain is a time when the beings of the Otherworld are more present in the...

October 21, 2019

Pan-Celtic Hoofbeats: The Dagda is Not Zeus!

On at least a weekly basis I see people asking which Celtic god is like...

October 17, 2019

Magick IRL: Elevator to the Moon

The moon has always drawn me in. Its bright, changing face was a comfort to...