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March 2021

March 16, 2021
The association between witchcraft and bees is perhaps not as well remembered as that between...
March 11, 2021
How many times have you, as a person of any gender or sexuality, heard someone...
March 06, 2021
Every International Women’s Day I consider what we’ve achieved since this time last year. I...

February 2021

February 27, 2021
I'm clearing and cleansing for the hungry month and for the full moon I'll be...
February 24, 2021
I'm no longer following Gardner's Wheel of the Year, instead I'm following more of a...
February 16, 2021
The Hagalaz (or Hagel) rune is given the description of hail in both the Anglo...

January 2021

January 30, 2021
Not all Wiccans regularly engage in ritual nudity but pants off magical practise is something...
January 21, 2021
Everything I see online has been chosen for me based on my previous decisions. I’ve...
January 12, 2021
I can't tell you the moment I woke up and realised I'd had more good...
January 08, 2021
The hardest thing for a person or culture to do is change. Use resilience and...
January 07, 2021
We’ve all seen the scenes from Washington, a self-titled shaman prancing about in animal skin...
January 04, 2021
I know all the words to say “I feel fat” in a kinder, more gentle...

December 2020

December 23, 2020
As I write an undetermined number of lorries sit stationary at Manston Airfield, near the...
December 16, 2020
I’m teaching my hereditary witch (otherwise known as my teenage daughter) the basics of modern...
December 09, 2020
Walking on the beach in Kent my footsteps are littered with hag stones. These are...
December 04, 2020
“You can’t change the world, only your reaction to it” Yes, this is true. But...

November 2020

November 27, 2020
The best kind of spiritual bouncer, I reasoned, was one who’d already been given the...
November 24, 2020
In Wicca we have a standard invocation style of one god plus one goddess in...
November 23, 2020
My empathy means I notice things maybe others don’t, but my hyper vigilance means I...
November 18, 2020
Not only are we living through a time with high numbers of deaths; we’re also...
November 15, 2020
Whilst the elements are still an important addition to my pagan beliefs, the "Mighty Ones"...
November 01, 2020
We live in a time of incredible binaries in politics. It feels as though hate...

October 2020

October 31, 2020
This Halloween season has seen a challenge meme on Facebook proudly displaying the tag #whatwitcheslooklike...
October 30, 2020
As a Pagan I don’t technically celebrate ‘Christmas’, but it’s a cultural festival and therefore...
October 28, 2020
Our unconscious misogyny colours the view we have of the way Norse society would have...
October 26, 2020
I find the October half term the most difficult school holiday in terms of entertaining...
October 24, 2020
Paganism and magickal practise are a big part of my life. Witchcraft and meditation have...
October 19, 2020
It's hard to unpick what is and isn't cultural appropriation but as authors and practitioners...
October 16, 2020
Now the public expects to consume art for free. It’s not their fault, it’s the...
October 12, 2020
Fatima’s next job could be in Cyber! I’m sure many people have spoken about this...
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