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April 2022

April 06, 2022

Elemental Witchcraft: Audio-Visual Meditation: The Room Inside Your Mind

This excerpt from my book "Elemental Witchcraft" (Llewellyn 2021, page 56-58) is an introduction to...

November 2021

November 18, 2021

Witch’s 2022 Astrological Calendar for Sabbats and Esbats

An integrated 2022 astrological calendar for Witches and pagans to celebrate the Wheel of the...

December 2020

December 18, 2020

Escaping Forward into 2021 with Hermetic Magick

As we bid a cranky farewell to 2020, and say "screw you" to the Age...

October 2020

October 18, 2020

Witch’s 2021 Astrological Ritual Calendar

Presenting an integrated 2021 astrological ritual calendar for celebrating the Witch's Wheel of the Year,...

April 2020

April 04, 2020

Foundations of Modern Witchcraft: Hermeticism within Wicca

Hermetics provides the bones and substance of a magickal pagan paradigm. So, how did this...

January 2020

January 26, 2020

Astrological Sabbat and Esbat Calendar for 2020

For your magickal pleasure, I present below an integrated Solar and Lunar astrological calendar 2020....

July 2019

July 09, 2019

Lammas Sabbat Index: Rites, Tales and Recipes for Witch’s High Summer

Lammas is the Witch’s Grand Sabbat of high summer. I celebrate with garden-fresh food, playing...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

Litha Sabbat Index: Rites, Potions, and Recipes for the Summer Solstice

Litha Sabbat for Witches is celebrated on the longest day of the year. This index...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

Beltane Sabbat Index: Rituals, Crafts and Aphrodisiacs for Witch’s High Spring

For all your Beltane celebration needs, I offer this index of my articles on the...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

Imbolc Sabbat Index: Craftings, Cleansings, and Rituals for a Witch’s High Winter

An Index of articles with Imbolc recipes for anointing oil and incense to use in...

October 2018

October 14, 2018

Samhain Sabbat Index: Reflections, Rituals and Magick

Following is an index of articles about Samhain, Halloween and the Autumn, including meanings of...

July 2018

July 10, 2018

The Pentacle Approach to Wellness: Balancing The Spiritual Body

The beautiful work of Witchcraft is to fulfill our own unique blend of spiritual wholeness...

June 2018

June 13, 2018

Cult-Proof Your Coven: Red-Flags and How to Avoid Them

The more we are aware of the dangers of cult behavior, the better able we...

March 2018

March 06, 2018

Is there Free-Will in a Witch’s Choice for Reincarnation?

After all, who would really want to be born into poverty, or born a crack...

December 2017

December 04, 2017

Yule Log Ritual for Winter Solstice Magick

Wherein I give directions for crafting a Yule log, with recipes for making a loose...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

Mabon Ritual of Feasting and Toasting

Mabon is a Witch's Thanksgiving! Here is a family-style ritual to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Street Preachers Evangelize Outside Witchcraft Shop

For the first time in nearly nine years in business, our Witchcraft shop attracted the...

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 17, 2017

Lammas Ritual of Integration and Sacrifice

This Lammas ritual celebrates high summer by magickally preparing fire-roasted corn on the cob, AND...

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 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 05, 2017

Inner Mystery Ritual of the Witch’s Simple Feast

We call this the "Inner Mystery" blessing of the simple feast. Its a far more...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Smote by the Old Gods: Kenny Klein Gets his Day in Court

I am a former student of the infamous Kenny Klein, and I have no doubt...

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 10, 2017

Witchin’ in the Kitchen: Ostara Devil-May-Care Stuffed Eggs

This is the time of Maiden Goddesses, Horned Gods, the fertile hare, and for gaily...

March 02, 2017

An Ostara Sabbat Ritual for the Large Coven

Ostara is the second sabbat in our Great Work of magick, with the agricultural theme...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Be of the World…It’s the Best Part of Witchcraft

All hungry, lusty and transcendent, our magick works the Will into the meeting of our...

February 21, 2017

Many Witch Hats for Many Seasons

As a modern priestess, I am pledged to serve as the hands, feet and voice...

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...