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June 2024

June 24, 2024

On spiritual inheritance: What to keep and what to release?

Recently I cleared out my garage. Well, I cleared out a chunk of it anyway,...

January 2024

January 25, 2024

The importance of spiritual supervision and mentoring

When you join a spiritual path as part of a group, you join a network...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

I no longer practise “cord cutting”, here’s what I do instead.

Cutting cords is a tried and tested practise within modern shamanism, neo paganism and witchcraft....

October 24, 2023

How to take your Ancestor Rite online this Samhain

So, this year there’s no reason not to gather for Samhain, so we can gather...

September 2023

September 20, 2023

Working with the Jera Rune for Abundance at the Autumn Equinox

Working with Abundance has been a big part of my magical practise recently, and what...

September 09, 2023

Exploring Past Life regression through spiritual belief and psychology

I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of Past Lives. The thought we might reincarnate...

August 2023

August 25, 2023

Running a virtual pagan moot, my year of creating a sacred space online.

I’ve run an online pagan moot for about a year now. It’s like your everyday...

August 24, 2023

Making Mercury Retrograde work for you!

Just the thought of Mercury Retrograde can instil all kinds of anxiety. But as a...

July 2023

July 29, 2023

Harvesting the grain: A bread baking ritual for Lammas

Whilst I’ll always be a witch and a pagan, I’ve found my rituals are a...

July 21, 2023

Ritual design for witches and pagans who’ve stepped off the traditional paths

Firstly, there’s no wrong way to write a ritual. You can design your witchcraft and...

June 2023

June 21, 2023

Celebrating the sun on International Yoga Day

I love that International Yoga Day and the Summer Solstice are the same day in...

June 18, 2023

Manifesting with the Summer Solstice

I’m always surprised by how fast the summer solstice comes around. No sooner have I...

January 2023

January 25, 2023

Working with the Ancestors: Healing the Scapegoat

When you combine ancestor work with psychology it becomes beautifully multifaceted. Exploring the role of...

January 09, 2023

Working with the Ancestors

Ancestor work is a two-way process. As spiritual beings, we search for answers from energies...

December 2022

December 29, 2022

New year, new plans? Here are some tips to making changes stick.

Whether you call it ‘Twixtmas’, ‘the perineum between Christmas and New Year’, ‘midwinter break’ or...

September 2022

September 09, 2022

Our Queen Elizabeth joins the beloved ancestors, but how can we heal transgenerational legacy burdens from our history?

Queen Elizabeth died yesterday. It’s not over dramatic to say that a great ancestor has...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

Awakening the Seer inside of me: Teaching seidr for the first time since 2014

The last time I taught an intensive seidr course was in 2014. I found a...

August 05, 2022

Hypnotherapy: Building a life I don’t have to retire from

I’m a hypnotherapist. It’s very much like being a witch, except I have a fully...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

Learning to love your body – unconditionally.

What is Unconditional Body Acceptance and why is it so liberating? Unconditional body acceptance for...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Career Laundry: Why the lockdowns are helping me build a life I don’t need to retire from

My career was always something that just was, it was never really a part of...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

Why “Sending Energy” Or Praying Isn’t Always Best (And What Else You Can Do Instead)

Do you send energy or healing to people you know are in need? Or do...

July 22, 2021

Beasts and Beats – A Conversation With Magical Drum Artist Laura Daligan

You may recognise Laura’s distinctive artwork style from the covers of my books, Laura is...

June 2021

June 10, 2021

Celebrating The Strawberry Moon – And It’s Been A Long Time Coming This Year!

In this blog post I talked about how I was going to celebrate the seasons...

April 2021

April 25, 2021

The Skill Of The Stag (Or The Story Of My Witchcraft Tools and Phil Stag)

I’m often asked where I get my witchcraft tools. With everything moving online last year,...

April 22, 2021

Forging Witchcraft Tools, A Conversation With A Pagan Blacksmith

Many of the people who create tools for witches are themselves pagan, but there are...

April 19, 2021

A Magic Formula for Designing Your Own Spells

Spells. That’s a word I don’t use very often. I would usually say “ritual” or...

April 15, 2021

Transforming The Art of Tarot – A Conversation With Emily Carding

Tarot is something most of us know of. We probably visualise it as the same...

April 03, 2021

An Ode To Capall Bann – Those Out Of Print Books Inspired A Generation Of Pagans

You might not know of the publishers Capall Bann, but you’ve probably heard of some...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

The Benefits Of Daily Affirmations

Affirmations are sometimes dismissed as new age thinking, or at best considered a placebo rather...

March 28, 2021

The Seed Moon, celebrating my reinvented witch’s wheel of the year

In this post I discussed the way I was tweaking the standard pagan wheel of...

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