Simple, ordinary acts are magickal, if you do them with magickal intent. The sun’s still in Leo for a few more days and the sunflowers are blooming. It’s almost time for the state fair. It’s a good time for Sun-magic, to save a bit…
There’s always a flip side. A friend made me a piece of magickal jewelry: a spiral of jewelry wire. Wear it one way, it spirals sunwise. Flip it over, it spirals widdershins. In our north-centric way of looking at things, east to south to…
There’s no single right way to choose your magickal name, but there might be a less-right way. One of my friends says that taking a phrase that encapsulates your fantasy of who you want to be (and maybe sticking “Lady” or “Lord” in front…
As witches, we know that each phase of the Moon is a good time for certain things. It’s the time of year when there’s still a foot of snow covering the ground and gardeners are fantasizing about planting. So it’s a good time to…
Different traditions seem to define spells in different ways. I work with one coven where people think of spells in a very traditional way – an odd number of people stand under the full moon at midnight, around an altar with one candle of…
What draws you to Wicca? Recently I posed this question to a group of Wiccan-curious and Wiccans fairly new to the Craft. Of course the answers included “Power” and “To learn how to cast spells.” Before you get all judge-y, think about how you…