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.
Altar | Autumn Equinox is my new year
Category: Wheel of the Year
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.
Many Moons | You contain multitudes: Solstice & new moon in Gemini
It is possible to hold multiple realities at once. At the apex of the year, this Gemini new moon helps us to explore, embrace and integrate our many contradictions.
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?
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.
Spring equinox: A tarot spread & a reading
What is coming forth for you as spring takes hold? What is emerging with the growing light? What is piercing the surface of your consciousness and taking up space in your life?
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.
January is incubation time
Listen to the seasons. They offer a pathway through the year from intention setting to realisation to integration.
Personal reflections at winter solstice
OPEN THREAD: Happy Equinox! Let’s talk old resolutions & future plans
Autumn is officially here folks! Join our community discussion about the year so far and your hopes and dreams for the months ahead.
Autumn Equinox: A bridge tarot spread & the Seven of Pentacles
The autumn equinox brings the wheel of the year full circle. It's a bridge from one era of our life into another.
Witch’s brew: Make an Elder elixir for rituals (& fun)
This tree has so many food and medicinal uses, and is central to so much folklore, it is a true witch’s tree. Here's a simple recipe for a nourishing ritual drink!
Lammas: Harvest, reflections, and a tarot spread
As the sun wanes, we gather in the fruits of the past six months. What are you harvesting, and what seeds will you save for next year?
Summer solstice, new moon, energy flow
A Spring Equinox teaching: Equanimity in motion
"Light and dark, sleeping and waking, introspection and action, govern the patterns of our everyday. All things are present always."
An Imbolc Teaching: The Shadow Dance
"What we seek draws us into the light of greater consciousness, and where there is light there is shadow."
Why I follow the Wheel of the Year
The Wheel of the Year provides a framework for observing the connection (or sometimes disconnection) between my inner life and the world around me.
Four lessons of the winter season
Karen Clarke explores seasonal messages from the Dark Goddess, and winter's encouragement to delve into our shadow selves.
Weekend reading: Samhain/Halloween special!
Folk tradition, herbalism, meditations, ancestors, rituals, reflections, a memento mori, how to conduct a seance with tarot, and more wonderful writing for the thinning of the veil.
Rowan berry garlands
The rowan tree is one of my favourites, and just now, it’s at its most beautiful. Here are a few thoughts on this magical tree, and how to make a garland from its berries.
Summer solstice
Summer solstice is a festival of abundance and personal power. Here are some ideas for celebrating!
A Beltane teaching: A lover’s embrace of life
Halfway between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, Karen Clark situates us in the fertile feeling of Beltane.
Ideas for Spring Equinox
Spring equinox is a festival of fresh air, balance and harmony. Here are some suggestions for how you might observe or celebrate.
Imbolc, awakening, Brigid, and an altar
This is the quickening of the year. I can feel something building, getting faster, as the sap rises in the bodies of trees.
Weekend reading + fixing + witching
I fixed some things and changed some things and then I compiled this witchy, wonderful list for y'all.
How to make… a moonboard
[Guest post] Claire Sauer shares her monthly moonboard scrapbooking project, and explains how you can make your own lunar collages!
How to make… a tiny altar that will fit in your pocket
If you live in a small space or move around a lot, you can make this teeny tiny pocket altar which you can carry around and set up anywhere you please!
The dying of the light: An autumn equinox tarot reading
I had so much to ask about, so much that has swirled around inside me for the past six months, so much that I want to pin down, crystalise, make sense of. This five card spread felt just right.
Autumn equinox
Though it looks like things are dying, seeds are falling, determining where they will grow next year. Intentions set now, commitments made.
Baking a loaf for Lammas
In the wheel of the year tradition, tomorrow – August 1st – is Lughnasadh (pronounced ‘lunasa’) or Lammas. This festival marks the start of the harvest season. The fields are full and so are the trees and bushes. Traditionally speaking, we are digging up the vegetables, harvesting grain and fruit, baking the first loaf of …