A friend asked me recently,
"What would it look like, to centre desire?"
I couldn't answer.
Altar | Centring desire, full moon in Taurus
Category: Magic and ritual
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Questioning
Alexis guides us to explore the ways tarot offers us a tool for healing, and shares a simple candle ritual to bring forth your personal answers.
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Making altars
"Altar making is like creating an open invitation for us to take up more space in our lives starting with the essential ritual of calling ourselves to return home." Alexis explores the crafting of altars using tarot cards.
Altar | Autumn Equinox is my new year
On this autumn equinox, my most precious moment of reflection, I commit to these learnings. I commit to digging deeper, to exploring further, to finding my way towards truly integrating this budding wisdom.
Lammas, space, breath, release, returning to self
It is a poet's time. And a witch's time. I begin to feel like myself once more. Though I have changed, I recognise myself.
Altar | July’s Full Moon Eclipse, for connection & liberation
May I express this wholeness through connection, not through isolation. May I show up for the people I love. May I show up for my community. May we coexist and co create. May we co-heal.
Many Moons | June’s full moon in Capricorn
Being a Blessing: Enacting Our Spirituality. Sarah Gottesdiener defines abundance and alignment...minus the spiritual bypass.
Heal & Harm | Morning coffee and little rituals
Each small ritual is part of a bigger picture, a cumulative relationship with ourselves and with our spirit and our environment.
Altar | New moon in Taurus, may I be fully my self
Heal & Harm | (Re)turning to mourn
Altar | New moon/full moon: stepping up & commitment
Two shared altars, Em and I exploring fear, vulnerability, and stepping into our own power.
Queering Beltane: Magic in the friction of opposites
Where in your life are you bringing together opposing energies? What magic lies in the tension between these things? Where can we turn friction into electricity?
Many Moons | April’s full moon in Scorpio
Sarah Gottesdiener shows how this potent Scorpio moon raises themes of sex, death and the wonders of creation
Tarot as a path of healing | Warding
Willow: The Witch’s Tree
The water-loving willow tree is associated closely with the moon, intuition, spirituality, emotion, dreams ...all that belongs to the intangible realm of the water element.
Heathen’s Journey: Redefining wealth with Fehu
Fehu is often interpreted as wealth or property. Immediately, this radical witch gets the willies.
Altar | Self-love, body-wisdom, dawn full moon
Heal & Harm | Building a self-love altar
Introducing… Sabrina Scott & their column Heal & Harm
Get to know artist, illustrator and witch Sabrina Scott and their new column, which looks at radical magic and healing with ritual.
REVIEW | Witchbody, by Sabrina Scott
Witchbody shows us that "magic is a way of talking, and a way of being with", exploring and celebrating the power of connection between all things.
Heal & Harm | Releasing trauma with little rituals
I fear that I would be physically unsafe were I to press charges. So what do I do? Where do I turn? Witchcraft.
Altar | Imbolc, dawn, full blue moon
For what might emerge from January's darkness. This moment is a pause
before the quickening of the year.
Dark Days | A spell for the dark moon in Capricorn
Wren McMurdo shares a step-by-step spell to encourage a feeling of accomplishment, replenish a sacred space, and fill your home with magical aromas while warming your soul and easing stress.
Queer futures actualized in the present
Artist and priestess Rebekah Erev shares a project that explores queers using the Jewish ritual of water immersion, mikveh.
Altar | New year, January, full moon in Cancer
Reminders that magic
- symbolism
-- messages
--- guidance
---- healing
are available here, around me, wherever I am.
Many Moons | January’s full moon in Cancer
Five tarot spreads for new year readings
New year is a great time for tarot reading! Here are five tarot spreads to ring in the changes.
Obsidian Moon’s astro self-care workbooks will set you up for 2018
"What we have created is a tool for moving through the deeper and darker days of Winter, a season that often comes with a lot of transitions and emotions."
Many Moons: Full moon in Taurus
Sarah Gottesdiener shares profound reflections on abundance and 'enough' for the full moon.
