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March 2021

March 03, 2021

Discovering Your Spiritual Allies

The truth is that we all have many spiritual allies. These may come in the...

December 2020

December 05, 2020

How Braised Cabbage Made Me A Better Witch

I found my own way to cabbage through experimenting with vinegar and apples and red...

October 2020

October 24, 2020

Calling The Dead On Your Cell Phone

This ritual worked, continues to work, continues to impact me a decade later because it...

May 2020

May 15, 2020

Processing Collective Grief

You don't have to be psychic or an empath to connect to the collective energies...

May 11, 2020

How Are Your Magickal Practices Different Today?

Phoenix and I reached out to a few of our favourite witches and pagans to...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Merry Maypole Silly Dancing Flower Fueled Beltane Ritual

The following is a list of ways to celebrate Beltane while under shelter-in-place and practicing...

April 20, 2020

Spiritually Surviving in the Time of CoronaVirus

With many of us being on home isolation, you might be feeling the pressure to...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

The Magickal Art of Doing Nothing

It's actually okay for us to do nothing. We have been indoctrinated into thinking that...

January 2020

January 15, 2020

Finding the Fae in Your Space

So you wanna connect to the Fae. Awesome! Just like deciding you wanna connect with...

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Peaceful Home Magick for the Holidays

Winter holidays can be fun celebrations, but they can also be difficult reminders of challenging...

October 2019

October 15, 2019

I Saw My Dead Friend Today

I saw my dead friend today. There she was, mass of unruly curls with her...

October 14, 2019

The Scent of Magick

After working a full day at my shop, I get home smelling of candle smoke...

October 11, 2019

The Forgotten Dead

It would not be possible to talk of the ancestors without spending a moment on...

September 2019

September 03, 2019

Witch Drama

But then something happens and I find my love recharged. It feels as if I...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

The Magical Practice Of Singing

Singing is part of my regular magical practice. I've discovered insights about my magic, how...

August 16, 2019

The History of a Goddess

When entering into relationship with a spirit, entity, Goddess, we have to ask what our...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

Pagan Mood Music

Music is one of the best ways for me to alter my consciousness. The right...

June 2019

June 20, 2019

The Shadow of Summer Solstice

Summer and Winter existing together. We need to celebrate the Summer Solstice because tomorrow the...

June 18, 2019

Finding Magickal Tools

Your magickal tools can be found, created, purchased, or gifted. What they look like and...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

Myths To Live By: Collaborating With Cerridwen

I can help write new myths. Myths that show men as collaborators and co-creators and...

May 01, 2019

The Power of Permission

I waited so long for someone else to give me permission. Looking back I could...

April 2019

April 08, 2019

The Pros and Cons of the Witch Trend

The current Witchcraft trend, or what I refer to as #witchcraft is fine with me...

April 03, 2019

The Goddess That Showed Up And What Happened Next

In some cases, the calling of the gods isn't much more than reciting their names...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Messages from Spirits of the Land

This may be potentially controversial, but the Fae, Spirits of the Land, and Spirits of...

February 2019

February 25, 2019

A Solitary and Big Pagan Functions

I do my own solo workings. I keep up on daily practice, most of the...

February 20, 2019

Anxiety and Witchcraft

In order to stay as mentally healthy as possible I let my anxiety inform my...

February 13, 2019

Charms, Spells, and Potions

Magick, in my opinion (and in the words of Dion Fortune), is the art of...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

What’s Your Most Influential Pagan Book?

Could you name the one Pagan book that most influenced your path? We asked Witches,...

January 17, 2019

A Ritual for Dancing in the Rain

The practice of dancing in the rain connected me to something primal, wild, and playful....

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Trusting Omens

A raven in your front yard may not be some sort of magickal sign, but...

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