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June 2019

June 11, 2019

Seekers and Guides: Lesson 20: Perfect Love and Perfect Trust

Most Witch Wars begin with misunderstandings and unspoken resentments. Learn how to prevent this through...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

Seekers and Guides: Lesson 13: When Magick Goes Awry

If magick is so effective, why does it often seem to go so wrong? Sable...

May 22, 2019

Seekers and Guides: Lesson 7: Subconscious Beliefs

Sable Aradia explains how your subconscious beliefs can limit you and suggests ways to overcome...

May 03, 2019

Meditation and Focus – from The Witch’s Eight Paths of Power: Intent

Meditation is an essential skill in manifesting magick, but meditation is easier than you think....

August 2018

August 27, 2018

Seekers and Guides: The Three Degrees of Wicca

What are initiation and the Three Degrees of Wicca all about? Here's my take on...

August 03, 2018

Seekers and Guides: Creating Spells for Creative Pagans

Once again I joined Sarah Buhrman on the Pagan Musings Podcast! This time we discussed...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

Seekers and Guides: Empathy in Trauma and Drama

If you're an empath overwhelmed by the stress of healing trauma, for yourself or others;...

December 2017

December 10, 2017

Canadian Wicca on Tapestry

Tapestry, a respected CBC Radio show on religion in Canada, features Wicca on the show....

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Seekers and Guides: The Doers and the Don’ters

In any field, you will find those who are outstanding. These are the Doers; people...

May 19, 2016

Seekers and Guides: Why Witches Wield Wands

In the age of the athame, a Witch might wonder why we bother putting a...

April 2016

April 01, 2016

Seekers and Guides: Magick with a K

Magick with a K -- how silly! Except that it isn't. And even if it...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Some Essential Books for Women’s Spirituality Groups

I'm going to cautiously recommend the classics in the field of Feminist Witchcraft, and a...

November 07, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Few Books that I Think Every Witch Should Read 2015 (Part 2 of 2)

One of the most common questions a teacher in the Craft is asked is: “Can...

November 03, 2015

Seekers and Guides: A Few Books that I Think Every Witch Should Read

One of the most common questions a teacher in the Craft is asked is: “Can...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

Seekers and Guides: How to Prevent Antagonism in Paganism

How can one create an environment that discourages Antagonists? In many respects the Pagan structure...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Seekers and Guides: How to Deal with Antagonists in Paganism

One thing that I took away from the recent conflict in my own tradition was...

September 12, 2015

Seekers and Guides: How to Recognize an Antagonist

Antagonists, who brew destructive conflict, are a plague upon any religious group. In my last...

September 08, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Antagonists in Paganism

Sooner or later, as a leader of a coven or within the religious community, you...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Sit for a Spell Episode 21 – Weather Magick

Sit for a Spell Episode 21: "Weather Magick" - Recent events in BC give Sable...

August 18, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Trance and the Brain (Book Excerpt)

Our brains function through waves of activity. These patterns, measured in cycles per second (hertz)...

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 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 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: The Charge of the Goddess – A Wiccan Ethic

In modern Wicca, we don’t have a lot of commandments, and creedal statements that we...

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...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

Seekers and Guides: Burnout

Why do teachers of the Craft seem to burn out so often and so quickly?...

May 2015

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...

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...