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June 2020

June 19, 2020

Simple Witchery: Let The Sun Shine In

Whether you call it Litha, Summer Solstice, or Midsummer, this is the perfect time to cast...

June 18, 2020

The DruWitch Way: The Bells, The Bells – A Solstice Faerie Rite

Bells and their use in ritual are a world-wide phenomenon. Here's a simple ritual using...

June 17, 2020

Radical Pantheist: The Phil Farber Story – High Magick

Cannabis connoisseur and metaphysical author Phil Farber discusses the history and sacred nature of cannabis...

May 2020

May 21, 2020

Irish-American Witchcraft: Aesthetic Witches, Basic Witches & Gatekeeping

In the last few years there's been an increase in the popularity of witchcraft and...

May 21, 2020

The Balancing Path: Elemental Spirit and Animism

Spirit is hard to define, since it is intangible and subject to personal experience and...

May 15, 2020

The Balancing Path: Interconnected Elements (Fire, Water, Earth, & Air)

The elements are worlds away from isolated energetic bastions of oppositional power. No matter how...

May 14, 2020

The Corner Crone: A Practice Steeped in Isolation

My life-long practice of hiding in plain sight, of living an interior—isolated—spiritual life has served...

May 12, 2020

Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairy Witchcraft During a Pandemic

Since the pandemic, I have learned what is truly essential to my spiritual practice and...

May 06, 2020

The Balancing Path: Scientifically Minded Witchcraft

Practicing scientifically minded witchcraft means acknowledging the validity and veracity of both science and magic....

April 2020

April 23, 2020

The Balancing Path: Book Review – Outside the Charmed Circle

Outside the Charmed Circle speaks to the human experience, in all its diversity. It is...

April 21, 2020

The Balancing Path: Meeting Aradia

An older looking woman looked up from stirring the cauldron to give me a warm...

April 08, 2020

The Corner Crone: Reclaiming a Solitary Practice

I’m in the process of reclaiming my Solitary Practice, spooling it out from my altar...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

The Corner Crone: I’m Not OK (and You May Not Be Either)

It’s OK not to be OK. Most of all, it’s OK to sit a little...

March 27, 2020

Living the Liminal: Staying the Magickal Course

When life throws crisis at us, it can turn our lives upside down. In times...

March 17, 2020

The Corner Crone: A Prayer to Brigid for Protection and Health

Like so many of us around our planet these days, Coronavirus consumes my attention and...

March 12, 2020

The Balancing Path: Including Queer and Genderqueer Fertility

Ostara through Beltane in pagan circles tends to include a deluge of fertility themes. This time...

March 04, 2020

The Balancing Path: (Not So) Arbitrary Symbolic Correspondences

There are a lot of symbolic associations in pagan and magical practice which are often...

March 03, 2020

Cross and Crossroads: 3 Candle Tricks You Really Should Know…

I teach a lot, and the bulk of my classes center around candle magic as...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

Cross and Crossroads: The Door to The Ancestors

Ancestor Veneration is an exciting new topic for a lot of witches these days. As...

February 19, 2020

The Balancing Path: My Nonbinary Liminal Pantheacon Experience

Nonbinary pathways are often inherently liminal because they defy the standard paths and perspectives of...

February 18, 2020

The Corner Crone: Personal Agency, Healthy Boundaries & Saying “No”

Does a Deity call you into service, or do you approach a Deity and ask...

February 12, 2020

The Corner Crone: Lessons From the Roots of Trees

The oaks, the banyans, the gumbo limbo trees, the royal poincianas–almost every tree I’m learning...

February 12, 2020

Dance of the Maenad: What Are Inner Spaces & Why Should I Have One?

“Inner Space” is a generic term I use to describe a place within your mind...

February 11, 2020

Living the Liminal: The Still Slumbering Goddess

This time of year in Nova Scotia is my least favorite month. The cold sting...

February 10, 2020

The Balancing Path: Can Pets Be Familiars . . .

Familiars are not especially common, even in pagan and witchy circles, although a huge portion...

February 07, 2020

Starry Eyed Witch: The Bloody Birth of a Wild Witch

It can seem as though the reclamation of one’s inner wild self is as simple...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Radical Pantheist: The Many Faces of the Unicorn – Angela Wix Interview

Angela Wix said she has been interested in unicorns for practically as long as she...

January 28, 2020

Magick IRL: I’m Still Breathing

When I was 18, I figured I would die with in the decade. Now that...

January 23, 2020

The Corner Crone: Are You Thor, the God of Hammers?

There was a time when I felt I wasn’t witchy enough because I didn’t have...

January 19, 2020

Simple Witchery: You Are What You Think

The power to tap into life force, attracting that which we desire by way of...