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April 2021

April 01, 2021

The End of the Long Nights… and Shadow Work

We often hear talk about doing “shadow work” in the pagan community, but what exactly...

January 2021

January 03, 2021

Herbs for the New Year… Seasonal Medicinals and Magick

Magickally speaking winter is a dark, mysterious and vulnerable time of year, fortunately for us...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Have A Magickal Thanksgiving

For me Mabon is a darker more spiritual celebration of the earth, while Thanksgiving is...

October 2020

October 25, 2020

A Haunted Road Trip…

All Hallows’ Eve or Samhain, a time known when the veil between our world and...

August 2020

August 22, 2020

Summer Endings In a Witches Wood

The last month of summer has arrived, and with it the last flowers of the...

August 17, 2020

The Moth and the Witch

The Moth is of the Lepidoptera family, with 11,000 here in United States alone. Moths...

July 2020

July 02, 2020

Flower Essences, and the Magick of Poisons

Homeopathy in essence is the belief of the body being able to cure itself by...

June 2020

June 02, 2020

Flowers of the Dead

“From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and I am in them and that is...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

The Folkmagick of Forsythia

Forsythia... how I await your return this year. Soon her blooms will burst forth within...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Day of the Cailleach

March the 25th brings upon us the Day of the Cailleach, or in actuality the...

March 19, 2020

The Witch and the Hare, a Spring Equinox Tale

The Spring Equinox is about the blossoming of fertility, sexuality, growth, and an awakening of...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

The Wortcunner, the Witch, and the Plant Spirits

It is rumored in folklore that the witches of days gone by where taught the...

February 06, 2020

Salutations to the Sun…Sun Magick

The Sun is brilliance, abundance, intensity in its warmth and rays, and success in its...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Shrooms, and the Shaman… Winter Folktales

As most of you are probably aware many of the traditions, symbolism, food and drink,...

December 21, 2019

Winter Solstice Within the Wood

Winter Solstice within the wood is a truly magickal time. It is a time of...

November 2019

November 19, 2019

The Rosehip Queen

I be the Rosehip Queen... for I am bewitched and entwined with the Wild Rose!...

September 2019

September 06, 2019

John Barleycorn Must Die! An Old English Folktale

From a pagan point of view John Barleycorn represents the cycles of nature, spirits of...

June 2019

June 28, 2019

The Witch and the Toad

Toads and frogs are amphibians of the "Anura" sector, meaning they are tailless. These enchanting...

May 2019

May 20, 2019

The Witch and the Bee

The witch and the bee, a more magickal union there could not be! Witches have...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

The Wyrd of a Witch…

The word "Wyrd" is an interesting word indeed. For I have found both in research,...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

Bewitching Birch… A Tree of Many Magicks, and the Devil

The Paper Birch is often one of the first species to reestablish itself after a...

December 2018

December 05, 2018

The children all know that it’s time to dread, when in place of “sugarplums” it’s Krampus instead.

Krampus is traditionally seen in folklore pictured with chains or bells he lashes about, birch...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Spirit Conjuring for Samhain

Spirits as we know have not faded away into the grave yards, in it's stead...

October 28, 2018

Horns and Antlers and All Hallows Eve…..

The season of the Dark One's decent to the Underworld at Samhain brings us visions...

October 09, 2018

How a Wood Witch Prepares for Samhain

Samhain, or All Hallows Eve, will soon be upon us. Bringing with it all it's...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

Tarot and the Ways of the Witch

The lore of the connection between the Tarot and the Witch becomes more apparent in...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

The Witch and the Wild Rose

The wild rose can be a truly positive force in our life, just like so...

June 2018

June 01, 2018

Lovely Light-hearted Lilacs

Plant lilacs around your home to keep at bay those who might intend to do...

April 2018

April 28, 2018

May Day is on the Way, and With it the Fae…Working with the Fae ~

May is when I sense their return....The woods are wild again, and the Fae...some of...

April 05, 2018

Spring Time…. Spirits await in a Witches Wood

For many Spring's arrival brings budding trees, springtime flowers, and warmer, sunny days ahead. A...

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