Ritual and Practice

Perhaps you, too, find yourself reluctantly being pushed toward new growth this season. You might...

The Witch’s Pyramid is a good way to center your thoughts when you’re feeling lonely...

The winter solstice this year for me is different and new. I went to Iceland...

Samhain is a time that is marked as one of the significant turning points of...

It takes courage to brave the dying light of sunset and risk giving one’s self...

Santa is a spirit with many guises and many names. Some of those guises are...

The feeling that our god has chosen us might well be a valid one, but...

Some gourds are good for decorating up and making rattles and drums out of, too....

What is an “Offering”? Why even give offerings in the first place? What constitutes an...

Magic always works better by cooperation than by force. In fact, trying to force magic...

I am getting into spring cleaning this month in a witchy way, and I figured...

The sort of magic I know and am most familiar with is a kind of...

Spiritual Alchemy by Jenny Tyson communicates advanced magical information by tracing her personal journey and...

Occultists of all varieties need to banish the demonic principality of Donald Trump from our...

I'll admit to having a few fluffy bunny tendencies. But, as a rule I don't...

As we shift from Winter's dormancy to Spring's rebirth, our desire for new possibilities drives...

Aleister Crowley is often labeled a Decadent for his obsession with sex magick. But traditional...

Every potions master begins somewhere—I started just jumping in. Knowing that with enough trial and...

Nicholas Laccetti reflects on the history of occult interpretations of the Papacy, and what the...

Many witches are feeling uncertainty for what the new year will hold. I'd like to...

Every December 21, a NY church holds a "Longest Night" service. Nicholas Laccetti reflects on...

My relationship to my locale is literally physical. I live here. I work here. I...

Universal Reformation has been a goal throughout Western esoteric history: for Renaissance magi, for Rosicrucians,...

I’m an opportunist and my days have magical themes. Today it was: local landscape, wormwood...

Winter is the season of the Dark Goddess and Her rebirth magic. Here are four...

Not so long ago, Yule was as much a chilling season of Ghosts, Monsters, Imps,...

We tell ourselves, spending time with family should be a great time, but old wounds...

Daily practice is a fulfilling form of devotion and discipline. A simple daily anchor to...

The manner in which a witch makes recipes into a spell is by carefully selecting...

The All Gods Event is a ritual I created a few years ago when I...