As many of you know, thanks to Jason Mankey’s post on upcoming festivals, there are many amazing opportunities to attend pagan events this summer! Personally, I am teaching at a few of these festivals this year (PantheaCon and TempleFest), but one of the ones that I am most excited for is the Salem Summer Symposium. Anyone who lives in or near Salem MA knows just how crazy it can get during October, but sometimes it can be difficult for the witches in the area to get to the m

Blackthorn Hoodoo Blends is a business that mainly focuses on the creation of magical teas. It was started by Amy Blackthorn (author of Blackthorn Botanical Magic) who I had learned about by listening to her interview on Down at the Crossroads. In her interview she talked a bit about her business, her book and her teas and I was instantly interested. There are few things that I love as much as magic, but tea is one of them. I went right to her website and ordered a Panacea Po

The Ophidia Rosa Tarot is an absolutely beautiful deck created by Leila + Olivia. A relatively small and independent company, the bio on their website says the following: “Leila + Olive is an artist-run line of botanical talismans, illustrated by hand with an eye towards mysticism. Creator Nicole Rallis, a New York visual artist, cultivates each piece from her lifelong enchantment with plant magick into full-grown tools of divination.” Rallis then talks about her love of work

PantheaCon 2019 ended about a week ago, and while I wanted to write this a lot sooner, it took me a little while to wrap my head around all of my experiences from this year. I’ll be honest that I was a little nervous going into PantheaCon this year. There had been a lot of public drama and hate being thrown towards those attending. However, I had an obligation to go as I was teaching a workshop this year and running the hospitality suite for the Temple of Witchcraft. I’m real

A few years ago, I was challenged to learn a divination system that I had never dabbled in before. Having practiced for most of my life I found this pretty difficult. I received my first tarot deck when I was about eight years old, I got into pendulum work, oracle decks, runes and scrying shortly after. Some of these worked for me, some of them didn’t, but it made it difficult when faced with having to learn something completely new. So, I decided to create something. What is

Each year thousands of people gather at magical retreats of every kind. Each year I personally try to attend as many of these as possible. This past February I attended PantheaCon and as we near the end of August we are preparing for the Temple of Witchcraft’s TempleFest. Attending these places of immersive magical learning has made me think quite a bit about the things that I do each time to prepare myself. Here are just a few of the tried and true preparations that I do for

I went into this year knowing that it would be a hard year of witchcraft. I was going into an intensive year of shadow work at the Temple of Witchcraft as well as Sacred Fires tradition. I carry a lot of trauma from my childhood and while I had mentally processed it and rationalized everything, I hadn’t actually emotionally processed anything. There are a lot of articles on shadow work out there, particularly from those fairly new to their paths, and I am going to be very hon

I have worked with the spirits of my land and of the dead since I was a child, ancestry working is very important to me, and I see no reason why the animals in our lives shouldn’t be held to the same respect. As a witch, I will continue to work with the spirits of my pets long after they have passed. In my own personal practice I do not work with the idea of physical pets as familiars as familiars are a completely different classification of spirit, but I have worked very clo