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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...

February 2021

February 18, 2021

The Perils of a Magickal Hangover

Something came up in a class last night. A couple of folks mentioned feeling crappy...

January 2021

January 10, 2021

Moving Sacred Space from the Old Temple to the New Temple

If you have a ritual room, temple space, or other magickal space in your home...

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 11, 2020

5 Ways To Use Salt In Your Magickal Practice

At its roots Witchcraft is about working with what you've got, which is another reason...

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...

January 2020

January 09, 2020

A Devotional For Athena

Find a book of mythology or any resource you have and find some tale of...

December 2019

December 16, 2019

A Winter Solstice Ritual: One Candle At A Time

In an impossibly dark room, one single candle can make all the difference in the...

December 13, 2019

Winter Solstice Hibernation Ritual

In case, you weren't sure, I'm not a bear. I'm a simple human. I can't...

October 2019

October 28, 2019

Samhain Supper For Two

Samhain is a busy time for The Witches Next Door. On Samhain night itself, before...

October 11, 2019

The Forgotten Dead

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

October 07, 2019

The Language of Ritual

Reading for me has always been an escape from the mundane and when I started...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

Pagan Mood Music

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

February 2019

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 17, 2019

A Ritual for Dancing in the Rain

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

June 2018

June 14, 2018

What To Do When Spells Go Wrong

You’ve got the right candles, herbs, curios, tarot cards, crystals, incense, yadda yadda yadda. You...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

A Wild God

The god was invited, seduced to join us. And He came.

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Brigid the Goddess of Imbolc

One of the beloveds that would not abandon the hearts and minds of Her people...

January 18, 2018

Reclaiming Tradition Initiation

For my ritual I experienced a challenging physical ordeal, I pushed myself beyond what I...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Winter Solstice – I Slept Through Most Of It. Am I A Bad Pagan?

on the actual solstice, I slept through it and woke up late the next day....

November 2017

November 16, 2017

Pentacle Of Yourself: Creating Your Own Body Pentacle

Another discovery that came from working my personal pentacle was the recognition that the most...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

The Pearl Pentacle – The Work of Many Lifetimes

For me it's about relationships, or maybe more accurately, being in relationship with other people,...

September 12, 2017

What Is Incense For? A Few Things To Know About Incense

Burning incense reminds me of the Elements and how they and we are always connected.

August 2017

August 30, 2017

A Ritual for the Elements – Magic You Can Do

I thank the Elements and release the Center, Earth, Water, Fire and Air from this...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

Lammas , Lugnasad and Harvest Celebrations

Was there a holiday called Lammas in ancient Pagan Britain? Probably not. Were there celebrations...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Elements of Magic – Becoming Water, Magic, Change

With Water, I'm in it and when I work with Water, the magic I do...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

I’m Kinda Over Beltane

This is not the Beltane for flower wreaths and kissing under the winding ribbons of...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Elements Of Magic – Becoming Fire, Magic, Heat

Fire. Just saying the word gets me all tingly and I feel my temperature rising....

March 15, 2017

Spring Equinox – Making Runic Eggs

One of my favorite, fun activities for the Spring Equinox is making Runic Eggs. This...

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