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October 2021

October 28, 2021

Review: The Witch’s Path

You aren’t necessarily getting training on “how to be a witch” or “how to cast...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Passing On The Magick To The Kids

This interaction will be with me my entire life. I wanted to share this interaction...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

Pros & Cons of Honoring Our Unpleasant Dead

As much as we may not want to, our biological ancestors make up who we...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

Review: Touch The Earth, Kiss The Sky

This book is a goldmine of wisdom, intelligence, and insight. Coaching the reader through fantastic...

December 04, 2019

Review: The Witch’s Wheel of the Year

Whether you perform the rituals straight from the book or simply use it to inspire...

October 2019

October 08, 2019

Stop Giving Unsolicited Psychic Guidance

Though you may be completely right about the information you're receiving, it may not be...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Preview: Psychic Witch (Foreword by Devin Hunter)

What sticks out most in this book is the emphasis on fusing the landscape of...

September 24, 2019

Review: Honoring Your Ancestors

Mallorie Vaudoise's Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration is without a doubt one of...

August 2019

August 04, 2019

Review: Morbid Magic

Coming from a background as a mortician and a magickal practitioner devoted to Santa Muerte,...

August 02, 2019

I Believe In ‘Woo-Woo’ Healing and Science

The 'woo-woo' is the approach of the witch. It's said that witches don't directly try...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

In Memoriam: Raven Grimassi

My heart is a bit heavier than normal today. With the passing of Raven Grimassi,...

February 2019

February 23, 2019

How I Work With The Gods & Might Possibly Worship Them Too

When meditating on how to explain my relationship with gods, the best example I could...

February 12, 2019

Review: Keeping Her Keys

Through keeping one foot firmly planted in historical pagan context and one foot in modern...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Video: The Most Important Tool Of The Modern Witch

Anyways, here's another super serious video I made a while back for my Facebook profile...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

Setting the Tone with Janus

New Years is sacred to the Roman god Janus. The month January is named after...

December 18, 2018

Our Pagan War On Christmas

The right-wing Christian demagogues keep saying that there's a "War on Christmas" and the truth...

December 18, 2018

Winter Solstice Books For Pagans & Witches

I was told by someone that they were having trouble finding good books on Yule...

December 17, 2018

Ded Moroz: The Cruel & Kind Grandfather Frost

Ded Moroz, unlike most Santa figures, doesn't come with a Krampus-like companion as most do...

December 12, 2018

This Fashionista Cat Devours People To Celebrate Yule

Some traditions had people giving offerings to the Yule Cat who would eat its offerings...

December 11, 2018

The Child-Eating Scarecrow Of Christmas

His hermitage in the woods made him go insane and soon he found himself craving...

December 09, 2018

Jaclyn Cherie: Luciferian Witchcraft & The Nephilim Rising

I do self-worship and, for me, to honor (worship) myself means that I honor my...

December 06, 2018

Chris Allaun on Shamanism, Witchcraft, and Ancestors

Being part Native myself, I take Native American spiritual practices very seriously. I’ve had many...

December 04, 2018

A Brief History of The Krampus

Deriving his name from the word “krampen” meaning “claw,” the Krampus is described as half-goat,...

November 2018

November 15, 2018

Modern Myths Versus Literalism in Witchcraft

When it comes to the grandmother myths, origin stories, folklore, "fakelore," etc. within witchcraft -...

November 12, 2018

Review: The Witch’s Altar

What is great about this collaboration is that for how different their practices and beliefs...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

Review: Llewellyn’s Little Book of Halloween

She invokes the fun of our modern secularized Halloween that we grew up with back...

September 2018

September 03, 2018

Review: Silver’s Spells

The important thing to know about this spell book is that the spells work. Many...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

The Modern Keys to Hekate

In The Orphic Hymn, Hekate is called the Keeper of the Keys of the Universe....

July 14, 2018

A Witch Interprets ‘God Is A Woman’ by Ariana Grande

As a gay man, when I saw that Ariana Grande had a new music video,...

July 11, 2018

The Etymology of Auras

The word aura comes from the Latin word aurae which means a breeze. In Greco-Roman...