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September 2021

September 13, 2021

Sex-Magic-Gnosis

So what happens to that energy when we aren't having sex to make babies? Energy...

July 2021

July 14, 2021

The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful herbs, medicinal nightshades and ritual entheogens

The Poison Path is not about poisoning people, or being spooky by working with dark...

June 2020

June 16, 2020

A Malediction to Lilith: A Curse for the Wronged

Lilith is the champion of those who have been ostracized, cast out and wronged. With...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Solanaceae in the Garden of Shadow

There are no plants more specifically associated with Witchcraft and the Devil than those that...

February 2020

February 16, 2020

Saturnian Melancholy & Daemonic Inspiration

The ecstasy of madness, the fire of inspiration, the frenzy of enthousiasmos when contained within...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Illumination, Inspiration and Imbolc

Since the winter solstice, the Sun has been blackened we have burned away what wasn't...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Saturnian Plants: Defining Boundaries and Defining Boundaries

The baneful herbs of the Poison Path are under the rulership of Saturn. These plants...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

Samhain in the Devil’s Garden

The tides of the spirit world are reflected in the green world because in reality...

September 2019

September 16, 2019

Thornapple, Gender and Ritual Application

I have found that the majority of plants particularly those associated with spirituality and expanding...

September 03, 2019

Unguentum Venenum: A Flying Ointment

The infamous witches' flying ointment is a quintessential representation of the beliefs surrounding medieval witchcraft....

June 2019

June 18, 2019

Reducing Your Magickal Footprint

Picture what your own magickal footprint would look like. Picture all of the spells and...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

An Update and other Reflections

Since this time last year so many things have changed and grown out of the...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

Flying High on Hexennacht

Beltane, Walpurgisnacht, Hexennacht is one of my favorite sabbaths. It combines my love of nature,...

April 25, 2019

The Fly in the Witch’s Ointment: Redefining the Poison Path

The Poison Path can be a misleading term for the practice of working with baneful...

April 10, 2019

Remembering the Spiritual Properties of Entheogenic Herbs

To the witch and herbalist, plants are many things. It is important we do not...

March 2019

March 16, 2019

Of the Nightshades: Interview with Ian Vertel

In this article, I conduct an interview with Ian Vertel, a poisoner, apothecary and herb...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Many Approaches to Protection Magic

Charms, prayers and petitions for protection are found in virtually every religion and spiritual practice....

February 11, 2019

Reliquaries, Charms, & Amulets

Many ritual objects serve as dwellings for individual spirits, providing them with a physical anchor...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

The Spiritual Aspects of Ancestry

Paganism and folk magic are intimately tied to history, heritage and tradition. There are many...

October 2018

October 01, 2018

Individualistic Witchcraft: Is the Craft Atheistic?

Putting the "I" in W(I)tchcraft Witchcraft is highly individualistic. Is it more practitioner centered than...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

Witches Take Flight on Midsummer’s Night

A Time of Magical Doorways and Planetary Alignments Along with Beltane, Samhain, and the Winter...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

Now the Witch is Back

Learning to Love the Land of One's Birth I think it is important to be...

April 2018

April 29, 2018

Beltane: Beginning the Growing Season

The arcane practices of a solitary practitioner of occult herbalism and classical witchcraft during the...

April 09, 2018

A Collection of Wolfsbane Lore

"The most prompt of all poisons." -Pliny the Elder, in Natural History. Wolfsbane, Monkshood, Aconite Wolfsbane. Courtesy...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

The Ravages of Conservative Christianity on Non-Christian Children

The Christian Church has influenced nearly every aspect of Western Civilization since its rise to...

February 13, 2018

Assembling the Poisoner’s Pocket Guide

This unique guide to the Crooked Path features an arcane compilation of various tools of...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

The Totemic Art of Charlotte Rodgers

This part of my study on magical artifice and relics of witch power focuses on...

January 15, 2018

Relics of Witch Power

In addition to the magical tools that we use on a regular basis there are...

January 05, 2018

Gathering Your Personal Symbol Set

We internalize all of the symbols that we encounter and they become part of our...

January 05, 2018

Taking Back Power

There are many types of power and many forms it takes, witches work with personal...

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