Tag: pagan
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How to Make Spell Oils – Recipe Included!
Spell oils are a versatile tool in my practice. They are made for a variety or purposes with a variety of ingredients. Witches have been using oils in their spells for a very long time, and modern witches are no different.
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Bealtaine: Myth, Folklore, and Florida Witch Celebrations
As one of the Celtic Fire Festivals, Bealtaine marks a very important time of year in Irish paganism. Historically, before the Gregorian calendar, Bealtaine marked the transition between Winter and Summer — the dark half of the year and the light half of the year.
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I’m more than a witch, you know!
Did you know I’m a real person? [cue shock and awe] I hate the idea of niching down my content fully so sometimes I like to post things that don’t have anything to do with witchcraft. That’s what today is!
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Hard Polytheism and Soft Polytheism — What’s the Difference?
The words hard and soft have been used to describe polytheism, but some people don’t know the difference between the two! My newest video on YouTube discusses the differences but I’m going to lay them out here, too. What is Polytheism? Put very simply, polytheism is the belief in and/or worship of more than one…
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Sometimes, practicing your craft and your faith will require hiding in plain sight. This can be for several reasons, but the most common is safety and professionalism. Now, I’m not talking about kids hiding things from their parents or guardians. That’s a different topic and one I will touch on at a later day. I’m…
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Tarot on a Whim
I’ve always got several ideas popping around in my mind for my website, business, and podcast. My problem is that my day job takes a lot out of me sometimes, as well as raising a child to be happy and healthy, and sometimes I have no energy to work on the things I want to…
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What makes an altar?
I was sitting at my altar this morning, just for a few minutes, taking a quiet moment to myself before I left for work. It occurred to me that my altar doesn’t look how I wished it would, but that’s ok. There’s a lot of extenuating circumstances around my altar and why it looks the…
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Creating a Consistent Practice
We’ve all been there, in the time when you have no time. When life gets too hectic for you to keep your wits about you, let alone practice your faith. When each tick of the second hand on the clock is a reminder that you’re running out of time, and your to-do list just keeps…
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Tarot: The Fool’s Journey
The Major Arcana in tarot can be seen as a metaphor for life, with each of the 22 cards representing a major event/person/situation that we may experience on the physical plane. There’s a reason that the major arcana cards are called trump cards, and that’s because when they are pulled in a reading, they are…