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October 2019

October 03, 2019

31 Ways To Celebrate Samhain

Newsflash: Life is short and before you know it we'll all be ancestors. Put something...

March 2019

March 14, 2019

Hail & Welcome Spring: 10 Fun Facts About The Spring Equinox

The spring equinox is just around the corner. I know this because the huge tree...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

What To Do With That Weird Week In Between Xmas And New Years?

Twixtmas is the perfect time to do some deep soul searching and make incredibly profound...

December 12, 2018

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Or A God?

There's a giant of a ghost in the adjoining room along with seasonal greenery, turkeys,...

December 04, 2017

Yule Traditions You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

The Yule day was replete with feasting and drinking and carousing. I'm a huge fan...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

A Samhain Feast – What’s On The Menu

Here's my favourite ingredient. Add one bottle of brown ale, minus one gulp (that's for...

October 06, 2017

What Goes on a Samhain Altar?

Do you have a quilt that your great grandma passed down to you? Maybe you...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

Autumn Equinox – Finding Equilibrium on the Mountain Top

Standing in the full moonlight of the Autmun Equinox, speaking what is true and hard...

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...

December 2016

December 17, 2016

Winter Solstice – Return Of The Light

A Winter Solstice ritual can be a powerful time to sink into the darkness all...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

A Witch Gives Thanks On Thanksgiving

So with an eye to the past and an honoring of the terrible losses, the...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

13 Questions About Samhain

Rituals may include a symbolic journey to the Otherworlds and visiting with deities that preside...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

A Beltane Spell

Beltane - It's great! What could be better than Maypoles, gathering with community, dancing, singing,...

April 21, 2016

An Altar, A Tree And Devotion

This basic witch craft 101 ritual allows for a few moments of deeply, sensuously connecting...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Saint Patrick – Thanks For The Memories

It seems the stories I believed are not historically accurate, they are just not true....

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Imbolc In The Reclaiming Tradition

Outside of initiatory oaths and our personal vows to each other, these pledges are the...

January 20, 2016

A Ritual For January

We speak out loud as if the Old Year was just a few hundred yards...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

A Pagan Christmas – Eat, Drink And Be Merry

Okay, okay! We get it. Christmas is all about celebrating the birth Christ and what...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

13 Samhain Traditions (Well,at Least at Our House)

It’s a time to pull out everything Samhain and Halloween related. Our house is always...

October 06, 2015

Spiraling Into The Center

A spectacular gift to be in the presence of a thousand Pagans, witches and seekers...

October 02, 2015

What Does It Mean To Work With Your Ancestors?

Our ancestors have been as much rowdy as gentile, artistic as bawdy. If we were...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Lammas – Thoughts about Harvest

Note: This article was originally published Lammas of 2014 on Gwion's website, however, it describes...

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