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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...

March 16, 2021

Bee Inspired Witchcraft And Magic

The association between witchcraft and bees is perhaps not as well remembered as that between...

March 11, 2021

If Men Want To Make Women Feel Safer, They Need To Use Their Voices!

How many times have you, as a person of any gender or sexuality, heard someone...

March 06, 2021

On International Women’s Day, I’m asking how the recent lockdown has impacted women’s careers

Every International Women’s Day I consider what we’ve achieved since this time last year. I...

February 2021

February 27, 2021

Witchcraft For The February Full Moon And The Hungry Month (Reinventing the Wheel)

I'm clearing and cleansing for the hungry month and for the full moon I'll be...

February 24, 2021

I’m Reinventing The Pagan Wheel (Of The Year) To Suit My Own Needs

I'm no longer following Gardner's Wheel of the Year, instead I'm following more of a...

February 16, 2021

Working With The Hagalaz Rune During The Winter Lockdown

The Hagalaz (or Hagel) rune is given the description of hail in both the Anglo...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Thinking About Ritual Nudity (I Just Feel More Powerful With My Pants On)

Not all Wiccans regularly engage in ritual nudity but pants off magical practise is something...

January 21, 2021

Please Internet Giants, Stop Painstakingly Curating My Life!

Everything I see online has been chosen for me based on my previous decisions. I’ve...

January 12, 2021

This Is How It Feels To Be Depressed And Recover

I can't tell you the moment I woke up and realised I'd had more good...

January 08, 2021

2021 Reborn From the Flames: Resilience And Goal Setting In A Changing World

The hardest thing for a person or culture to do is change. Use resilience and...

January 07, 2021

My Gods Are Not Vehicles For Hate!

We’ve all seen the scenes from Washington, a self-titled shaman prancing about in animal skin...

January 04, 2021

There Are Too Many Words for Fat In My Vocabulary

I know all the words to say “I feel fat” in a kinder, more gentle...

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