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October 2016

October 09, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Guarding and Protecting Your Magical Workings

Magic is a process unfolding over time. In my experience, that process is most vulnerable...

October 02, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Extended Spellwork and Self-Compassion

So, I have been doing magic, every day for two hours for 20 days. Connecting...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

Star Made Witch: Benefits of Being a Traditional Witch

A witch learns through the practice of magic, a confidence that their fate is in...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Five ways to Establish a Local Traditional Witchcraft practice

When I meet other witches I love hearing about their stomping grounds and see what...

August 21, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Prayer 2.01 Beta (We’re All Still in Beta)

Many people pray. Sometimes multiple times in one day. “Petition magic” and prayer are the...

August 11, 2016

Outside the Circle: Top Ten Magickal Facts about Trees

I gravitate to trees. I can think of at least 3 places I've lived where...

August 07, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Deep Relaxation and Release

Generally, sleep is one of the most underrated experiences and it is becoming increasingly clear...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

Star Made Witch: A Day in the Life of a Witch

A fellow traditional witch coming to stay the weekend is extra special and we always...

July 05, 2016

Irish American Witchcraft: 21st Century Hex

Of all the lines that divide the modern pagan community none may be so sharply...

July 03, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Obliquity and Desire of Result

Economist John Kay recently wrote a book on something called "obliquity." Essentially that complex goals...

June 2016

June 25, 2016

Outside the Circle: Review of Judika Illes’s The Big Book of Practical Spells Everyday Magic That Works

"Seek a witch and find her living in solitude in the wild forest," said Judika...

June 19, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: You Can’t Move Forward by Merely Wishing and Magic

Onstantly in my interactions with students and customers is the notion that the magic “just...

June 03, 2016

Adventures in Wortcunning: Is Magick Real?

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

June 01, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Finding the Spirit of My Religion

I knew what she was as soon as I saw her. She was my frumpy...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Star Made Witch: The Function of Spell Components

A witch gathers their spell components from a legend of traditional and personal correspondences and...

May 15, 2016

Full Frontal Magic: Practical Magic for Time Crunched Magicians

Adaptation in and of itself is a worthy magical skill, and adaptation to modern realities...

May 09, 2016

Star Made Witch – Know Thyself

Perhaps the most pervasive and least understood advice in witchcraft is Know Thyself from the...

May 08, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Mama Magic Rising

Courageous, healing, and resilient, my Mother is a force of nature. Born of her, I...

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 26, 2016

Witch on Fire: Beltane Lovers – Once you Go Witch You’ll Never Switch

This is MODERN witchcraft, where we strip off the mask of the obvious, and glory...

April 25, 2016

Star Made Witch: Walpurgis Night

The eve of May is also called Walspurgis Night (from Walspurgisnact in German and Dutch)...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Star Made Witch: Witches dreaming

At those hard times when it's all you can do just to complete your daily...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

Star Made Witch: The Witch of Portobello (Book Review)

The Witch of Portobello is about a Romani orphan who was a refugee to London...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Star Made Witch: Witchcraft and the Grimoire Tradition

A grimoire is a magical book with rituals for contacting spirits, spells, divination and associated...

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 28, 2015

Star Made Witch: The Power of Scent

Scent is able to summon up mood immediately. The intense memory response of scent can...

October 2015

October 11, 2015

Wayfaring Woman: Winding Roads

There are many roads that one may travel. Divine encounters with Hekate and Odin transformed...

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 08, 2015

Witch on Fire: Confessions of a Snake Oil Salesman

Bless me, pagandom, for I have "sinned" and fallen short of the glory of our...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Witch on Fire: Lammas Sacrifice and the Sacred Mission

That’s when my perception shifted, and I suggested that this harvest is about what is...