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June 2026

June 30, 2026

Restoring the Watershed of Divine Love

Perhaps cooperation is not something we manufacture through legislation, ideology, or moral perfection. Perhaps it...

May 2020

May 23, 2020

A Dream Not to Be Forgotten

Something old, something new, a dream retold, of feelings blue...betrayal, disregard and abandonment at a...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

A Love Message for Women

The heart prepared to receive love is the one already opened from the giving of...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Shopkeeper Sagas: From the Ashes a Fire Shall be Woken

For the first time, I had a sense of belonging and connection in the great...

March 25, 2017

What I See through Aphrodite’s Rose-Colored Glasses

I've now served Aphrodite for three years and I will never think about the phrase...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

WitchCrafting your own Love Spell

Love spells are relatively easy to design for yourself once you know the correspondences among...

February 14, 2017

9 Roses Along the Thorny Path of the Public Witch

There are many things that I just love about this Public Witching gig. Yes, despite...

February 01, 2017

Writing the Personal Vows of a Priestess

When times get rough, I am always brought back to the vows of service I...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

I Didn’t Want to March on Washington, but I Went Anyway

During the Women's March on Washington, the spirit of resistance to tyranny was revitalized and...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

Blue Witch in a Red State: Election Horror and the Advice of Wizards

Does anyone else feel like we are in the opening chapters of an epic sci-fi

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Celebrating Mabon: Love in the Balance

Learning to balance the "light" and the "dark" aspects of life is tough, but equinoxes...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

Lammas Confession: I Burned the Witch

Don't you hate it when you grow up a little and realize that your elders...

August 08, 2016

Witchcraft Without Superstition

Superstition has no place in my Witchcraft. If the spell I’m doing isn’t empowering me,...

August 02, 2016

“Money Pot” Spell for the Harvest Season

During this Lammas season of harvest and sacrifice, here is a Money Pot spell, that...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Confessions of a Witch on Fire

The most instructive stories are more like a confession, where I own my own shit,...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Aphrodite’s Thealogy of Perfection

"In Perfect love and Perfect trust." I've come to appreciate this concept as one of...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

A Valentine’s Love Spell

For Valentine's day, try this Ideal Paramour Love Spell. Remember that magick, like sex, is...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Lammas Sacrifice and the Sacred Mission

Lammas is a pregnant time, full of expectation, succulence, and satisfaction. I’m beginning to taste...