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September 2022

September 01, 2022

Elemental Witchcraft: Pranic Breathing Meditation with a Witch’s Charm of Affirmation

Pranic breathing is an intentional method of breathing inspired by practices from the east which...

December 2021

December 05, 2021

Elemental Witchcraft for Reconciling Divine Paradox

Elemental Witchcraft, is a panentheistic tradition of Hermetic philosophy, whose magick attempts to reconcile the...

May 2020

May 03, 2020

Worry Jar Binding Spell for a Dark Moon

This spell casting ritual calls upon the aid of planetary Saturn, Mars and Venus to...

September 2019

September 08, 2019

Mabon Sabbat Index: Rites, Recipes and Thealogy for Autumn Equinox Balance

At Mabon, Witches celebrate the second harvest of fruits and vegetables, and the shift into...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

Breaking the Chains of a Magickal Curse

Have you been cursed? It is way less often that outside forces are dogging us...

January 2019

January 13, 2019

That Time Aphrodite Blew Up Her Altar

An altar is one's outward representation of their inner spiritual life. Just like my spirit,...

December 2018

December 18, 2018

Why Believe in Santa Claus?

Why believe in Santa Claus? Belief is power. In my own Santa way I choose...

December 11, 2018

O Tannenbaum: My Witchy Winter Solstice Tree as Fir Magick

What is the difference between my Witchy Winter Solstice Tree and a Christmas Tree? Practically...

September 2018

September 15, 2018

Collecting Hurricane Waters for Justice Magick

Hurricanes teach harsh lessons of humility to everyone in their path...they are terrifying, humbling, and...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

Review: Practical Astrology for Witches and Pagans

If this is the very first book of Astrology you pick up, you can consider...

August 06, 2017

A Witch’s Lughnassadh Sabbat Adventure

Yesterday we celebrated Lughnassadh and had a blast! Hint: it wasn't solely the ritual that...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

Discerning Snake Oil from the Witching Real McCoy

You are intelligent, thoughtful practitioners, who understand the co-creative alliance with the Powers that Be....

July 26, 2017

Pilgrimage to Mystic South

Every year, I try to make one spiritual pilgrimage to learn from the luminaries in...

July 20, 2017

Confessions of a Snake Oil Salesman

There are days when I feel like a snake oil salesman. I confess my disenchantment...

July 05, 2017

Excavating Paganism: A Wiccan Encounter in the Wilds of South Carolina

When did I start practicing paganism? That was a long trip that took about 10...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

The Pentacle Approach to Wellness: Fires of the Will

My will is my fire; and when my personal will is in alignment with my...

June 12, 2017

Spell for the Magus: I am the Magick

The end-game of the pursuit of magick, is to discover that it is a continuous...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Shopkeeper Sagas: The Hogwarts Disappointment

I wonder if sometimes the gods disguise themselves as my more interesting customers and come...

May 03, 2017

Beltane Songs for Maypole Dancing and the Sacred Marriage

Beltane is in full dancing swing, and just in time for your reels and gigs...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Pagan Poetry: Goddess in Light of the New Moon

"Yea, revel in mystery of her dark moon, There to find source - the power...

February 15, 2017

WitchCrafting your own Love Spell

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

February 04, 2017

One Coven’s Ritual Etiquette Guidelines

Every coven has their own, unique ways of doing ceremony and their expectations of behavior...

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 17, 2017

Shopkeeper Sagas: Witches’ Marks, Rooster Blood, Thor Me Not

We've heard just about everything, and at this point, it takes something really spectacular to...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

The Pentacle Approach to Wellness: Balancing the Physical Body

Utilizing the witches' elemental lessons of Earth, and the practice of magick, I've found ways...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Digging up Roots in the Garden of Witchery

Like all the best occult mysteries, its a paradox: to see far, you dive deep....

August 08, 2016

Witchcraft Without Superstition

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

July 2016

July 16, 2016

A Witch’s Battle with the Leviathans of Global Suffering

How do we go about our lives in an effective way, and resist succumbing to...

July 13, 2016

Shopkeeper Sagas: All that is Gold Does not Glitter

As a Shopkeeper, there is a lot of heinous, soul-sucking minutia that goes on behind...

July 11, 2016

Shopkeeper Sagas: Not All Who Wander are Lost

We are saving the world through love, fellowship, hard-work and a fierce sovereignty that battles...