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July 2015

July 17, 2015

Seekers and Guides: The Purpose of Your Altar Pentacle

Books for solitary practitioners usually name the pentacle as one of the traditional witch's tools,...

July 14, 2015

Dance of the Underworld: the Pluto Flyby

Today we kissed the God of the Underworld and the farthest commonly-known "planet" in our...

July 13, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Sit for a Spell Episode 20 – Drying & Storing Herbs

In the next episode of her popular Sit for a Spell witchcraft YouTube video series,...

July 04, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Sit for a Spell Episode 19 – Lawncrafting

It's Midsummer! Back after a long absence, Sable takes you on a tour of her...

July 02, 2015

The Many Faces of Wiccan Divinity

Wiccan theology is actually very complex. It is perfectly valid to interpret Wicca as duotheism,...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

6 Things That Neo-Pagans Could Learn from Polytheists

The Polytheists are doing a lot of things that I think the rest of us...

June 21, 2015

Happy Solstice!

Happy Solstice to one and all!

June 15, 2015

Solstice: Solar Appreciation Day!

The Solstice is coming! Why not observe a Solar Appreciation Day? Here's some fun facts...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

A Devotional for Brighid

A devotional song for Brighid; part of the Pagan Experience blog project.

May 20, 2015

Seekers and Guides: The Three Degrees of Wicca

The three degrees of initiatory Witchcraft are often misunderstood by Witches and Pagans, especially those...

May 12, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Coven Leader’s Primer

Want to start a coven but you don’t know where to start? Here’s a primer...

May 09, 2015

Fire Transforms Us

Fire – What ignites your passionate fires? What fuels your spiritual fires? What rages in...

May 03, 2015

GH is for Gallows Hill

Not a lot of people know this about me these days, but I used to...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Maypole Magic

Ever wanted to know how to make and dance a maypole, but were afraid to...

April 26, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Your Mileage May Vary – Embracing Contradictory Truths in the Craft

Witchcraft and Wicca often ask us to embrace contradictory truths, especially about the nature of...

April 22, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Simple Spell for Earth Day

Want to direct your magick to help heal the earth this Earth Day? Here's a...

April 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: On Pagan & Wiccan Ritual

The use of language, sound, and ritual is the most familiar form of Witch’s magick;...

April 05, 2015

Water Shapes Us

Water - We are beings of water, but do we really honor it as element,...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Placebo Effect

"There's no such thing as magick" says the hard-core rationalist. But modern science does not...

March 20, 2015

Hanging With the Horned God

Am I devoted to my god? Absolutely. Do I love Him? Without a doubt. Do...

March 16, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Garden Magick for Ostara

It's Spring in the Northern Hemisphere! Time to plant your garden! Here's some magickal hints...

March 13, 2015

Belief Makes it Real: In Memoriam of Terry Pratchett

Yesterday Terry Pratchett died. His work contributed directly to my spirituality and many witches and...

March 13, 2015

As Above, So Below

What do I seek from the Divine? For myself, I seek the numinous. I want...

March 09, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Knowledge, Wisdom and Gnosis

Knowledge, Wisdom and Gnosis - What do these words mean to you? How do you...

March 03, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Moment of Choice – Precognition, Magick & Quantum Mechanics

It is the moment of choice that shapes the universe we live in. Sometimes bad...

March 01, 2015

All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive Wicca by Yvonne Aburrow – A Review

Sable reviews All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive Wicca by Patheos blogger Yvonne Aburrow.

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Getting to Know Your Local Land-Wights

Have you met your friendly neighbourhood land-wights? Here's some ideas about how to get to...

February 13, 2015

Valentine’s Day Magic: Spells for Love & Lust

Want to spice up your love life? Here's some Valentine's Day witchy magic for love...

February 06, 2015

Quantum Woo: The Multiverse

What if everything we know, everything we conceive of, is merely one of an infinite...

February 06, 2015

The Special Nature of Humanity: How Atheist Paganism and Polytheism Can Both Be True at Once

Now that Paganism has been around for a while, we are in the process of...