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What’s Your Biggest Self-Care Challenge?
As I was writing my upcoming book, Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-Care for Your Mind, Body, and Spirit, I was working through the manuscript in the early months of a global pandemic. For many of us, our social interaction became limited to Saturday night Zoom hangouts, video chatting with friends and family around the country, and eating and drinking way more than was healthy for any of us. I realized pretty early on that under crazy circumstances like 2020 has presented us with, self-care was a lot easier to talk about than it was to actually do. I learned, once those first couple of months had passed, that for my own…
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall…
… who’s the most magical of them all? Well, YOU ARE, if you incorporate mirrors into your magical practice. From scrying to repelling spells to beauty rituals, mirrors can come in handy in a number of ways. Here are a few of my favorite magical uses for mirrors: Make a Scrying Mirror Scrying is one of the best known forms of divination, and can be done in a variety of ways. Basically, it’s the practice of looking into some sort of reflective surface — such as water, fire, glass, dark stones, etc. — to see what messages, symbols, or visions may appear. A scrying mirror is a simple black-backed mirror,…
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Why I’m Excited About Witchcraft for Healing
Okay, I know that some people think that books just magically appear on Amazon, and that anyone who wants to write one can just wiggle their fingers at a laptop for a few hours and then BOOM a book pops out, but the fact is, it’s a lot of hard work. It’s months of research, followed by the actual creation of the content, and then a bunch of editors do their thing, the author has to go back and make revisions ad nauseum… it goes on for a looooong time. But I love it. I enjoy the entire process, especially when I’m writing about something that excites me. One of…
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Announcing “Witchcraft for Healing”
YOU GUYS!! After a ton of hard work behind the scenes for the past several months — which included writing a whole entire book during a global freakin’ pandemic — I’m thrilled to finally announce that I have a new book coming out, Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-Care for Your Mind, Body and Spirit, available from Rockridge Press on November 10! This book is a guide to unlocking magic’s transformative, empowering nature, and finding spiritual, emotional, and physical healing in all aspects of your life. You’ll learn about how modern witchcraft has many of its roots in wellness, and explore dozens of simple spells and remedies like crafting an incense…
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Ain’t No Party Like a Yard Ghost Party
When I moved a couple of years ago, I discovered that while I had about five boxes of Yule decor, I had over two dozen boxes of Halloweenery – it’s my favorite time of year! And this is one of my favorite decorations to put out – every fall, random strangers would stop and take pictures of my front yard, because of all the Halloween nonsense, and this group of ghosts was always a huge hit. Here’s how you can make your own, with about $20 worth of random supplies. For each ghost, you’ll need the following: 1 4-foot length of 2″ PVC pipe, cut with a 45′ angle on…
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Samhain Divination
Y’all, it’s the spooky season, and with 2020 being an absolute dumpster fire of a year, many of us are spending more time at home, and that means more time to work on spiritual growth. For me, although I work on divination all year long, the Samhain season is an especially powerful time of year to work with my guides, my ancestors, and those across the veil. In many agricultural societies, a popular pastime at Samhain was that of divining the name of one’s future lover. Some revealed a face, others an initial or even a full name. These traditional methods were practiced in rural societies for centuries. You can…
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The Countdown is On!
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No Snappy Title, Just a Tease…
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The Magic of the Woolly Bear
The woolly bear, sometimes called the woolly worm, is a well-known harbinger of weather to come. If you do any sorts of workings involving weather magic, it’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on these crawly critters, which are typically seen during the end of summer and into late fall. Where I live, they’re starting to pop up already — of course, in my neck of the woods, our seasons are Winter, More Winter, Construction, August, and Football (at least during non-Covid years), so take that with a grain of salt. At any rate, the woolly bear, which is the larval stage of the tiger month, has black…
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Setting Up Your Ancestor Altar
I’m pleased to announce that I have a little something for you over at the Llewellyn Journal! Setting up an ancestor altar is often the cornerstone, the very foundation, of working with your extended network of kin and clan for spiritual empowerment and personal growth. Much like a garden, with some regular tending—and a bit of occasional weeding—it can become a place where your spiritual work blooms and flourishes. By putting an ancestor altar in place in your home, and giving your people a space of their own, you’re carrying on a tradition found around the world, going back thousands of years. Read about Nine Things to Keep On Your…
