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April 2025

April 18, 2025

A Gift from Sekhmet

I’ve been thinking about a ritual I attended at Sacred Space Conference 2 weeks ago...

February 2022

February 07, 2022

Moving With the Major Arcana

Connect more profoundly with your body AND your magical practice by exploring moving that evokes...

January 2022

January 03, 2022

The Witchual Workout Returns

The Witchual Workout is back! It may seem a bit cliché to kick something off...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

The Shapeshifting Nature of Ritual

Ritual doesn't have just one face, shape, or form: it morphs to fit the needs...

April 2021

April 06, 2021

Welcome to WitchHeart

The Witch Heart is the part of the Witch's Anatomy that sets the rhythm and...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Magical Movement: Isolation & Connectivity

This past week's collection of 4 episodes delves into the concepts of isolation and connectivity...

February 23, 2021

Magical Movement: Gaining Direction

How much thought have you given to direction in your ritual? Sure, there's North, East,...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Magical Movement: Health, Wealth, Darkness & Light

The major theme for last week’s Witchual Workout episodes was balance - considering health and...

December 18, 2020

A Simple Solstice Ritual For Anyone

There is something powerful in a simple ritual that you know many other people are...

December 01, 2020

The Magic of Your Shoulders

The shoulders are a crucial area for movement - connecting our arms to our torso,...

August 2020

August 05, 2020

Introducing the Witchual Workout!

We are designed to be in motion, and movement is a good way to combat...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Live Beltane Ritual Dance & Music Performance on May 1st

While meeting in virtual space for a coven gathering or Sabbat isn't quite the same,...

April 01, 2020

A Witch At Home – 13 Ways to Muster Your Solitary Practice

Witchcraft, by its nature, is a tool for dealing with the unknown, weaving invisible threads,...

March 2019

March 12, 2019

Witchcraft & Tradition: Not Just for the Dead.

Here's the thing about traditions they are made by the living and they are also...

January 2019

January 17, 2019

The Super Amazing Blood Wolf-Storm Moon Thingie

So the nice folks over at Refinery29 asked me about my thoughts on the "Super...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

A Beltane Ritual For One

While there are clearly signs of procreation and fertility in the air (the trees keep...

March 2018

March 02, 2018

Messages from the Crossroads: Changing Words, Changing You

But what we're doing leaves a lot of room for structural change and possible results...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

Talking with Hekate and the Art of Conversing in Witchcraft

Do I speak for Hekate? Do I speak as Hekate? I think it's more like...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

Huffing the Gods

I had been describing a ritual I attended to my partner, trying to explain why...

August 2017

August 08, 2017

Meeting Hekate: Ecstasy and Unlocking the Crossroads

Seventy+ people, from many paths, all flowing together on a current of change in a...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

The Priestessing Witchery of Dance

"It's like you become someone else when you're leading a ritual." One of the few...

April 17, 2017

The Balance of Ritual, Performance, & Ego

Hi all! I'm in Book Jail for Sigil Witchery, just a couple more days to...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

The Dork Witch: The Art of Humor in the Craft

I'm just going to lay this on the line. I'm a dork. A big one....

August 2016

August 23, 2016

A Personal Ouroboros (But No Snakes for Grandmom)

It's been just over a week since my Grandmom passed away, and I've spent much...

August 09, 2016

Many Gods West – The Returning

The subtitle is mine, not the event's, but it sure does make for some hilarious...

August 09, 2016

Priestess Comes Knocking

A few years ago in 2012, I said to the world: I'm returning to being...

August 03, 2016

Movement as Ritual & Spellcraft

Whether deliberate and precise or made while in trance, movement has the power to unite...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Dear Mothers & Grandmothers of Paganism

Dear Mothers & Grandmothers of Paganism, You whose books and articles I have bought, read,...

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