Category: witchcraft
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Using Music for Cleansing
A lot of pagan and witchcraft practices use incense for cleansing a space. It’s a great way for beginners to learn the concept and theory behind cleansing. The smoke provides visual cues and the scent acts as a quick way to manifest the energy you are trying to raise. But, while smoke cleansing is a…
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What’s in a Name: Five Witchy Herbs
There’s a Tumblr post that makes it’s way around the internet about the folk names of various plants. It points out the fact that “eye of newt” is the folk name for wild mustard seed or that “bat’s wing” actually refers to the holly leaf. As a hedgewitch, I love this kind of information because…
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
My daughter came down the other morning, gestured out the window to the snow that was falling, and asked–in typical teenage fashion–”What is this bullshit?” “A Midwestern March,” I answered. I shared her annoyance at the snow, but wouldn’t necessarily label it bullshit. The Wheel of the Year turns, but that progression isn’t always smooth…
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Kitchen Table Magic
In my family, like so many others, the kitchen table is the heart of our home. We eat at it, yes, but it is also where we play games (Uno, M:tG and D&D being our favorites). It is where we discuss important matters of finances, school, work and our feelings. We pile our groceries on…
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Letting Go Via the Four Elements
Saturday I was feeling anxious, on edge and annoyed. I was stuck on the long list of things we still need and have to do and the limited funds and time we have to do it in. I was snapping at my family and just not in a good headspace at all. My saint of…
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Creating Your Own Magickal Correspondences
On October 28, 2020 Sew Witchy was discussed and reviewed by RhomanysRealm on Youtube. Someone in the the comments section asked about the magickal correspondences I gave for the stitches and how someone would go about assigning correspondences to those stitches not covered in the book. This is a topic that I spent a lot…
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Plarn: Its Crafting and Magical Uses
In my book, Sew Witchy, I’ve written on magical correspondences of various fabrics. My focus there was on natural fibers (cotton, linen, wool and silk). Not all crafters and sewists limit themselves to natural materials, though. In fact I’d hazard a guess that very few do. One could, I suppose, use only silk or cotton…
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Spell for Overcoming Obstacles
Domestic witchery is a fascination of mine, I think because it seems like it would be the oldest and most common form of witchcraft. Or maybe it’s just the lazy part of me that appreciates being able to accomplish two tasks in one. This spell is one I’ve been working with over the last year…
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Witchcraft EDC
Last year, during the early months of the pandemic, I fell down a rabbit hole of prepper videos on Youtube. The men* stuffed their backpacks with cash, bandages, pain meds, extra batteries, a multitool, multiple knives, water purification tablets, and even handguns as part of their everyday carry (EDC). Watching these hyper-masculenized loadouts got me…