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: Witchy
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.
MOONWORK: somatic practice for queers
"MOONWORK is a practice of making home in self, others, and the present moment, as perfect-for-now experiences that include past & future." Hannah Harris-Sutro introduces her new online class.
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
Altar | New moon/full moon: stepping up & commitment
Two shared altars, Em and I exploring fear, vulnerability, and stepping into our own power.
Tarot as a path of healing | Warding
Grandmother, Witch & Shadow: Lessons on leadership from the Tarot of the Crone
Tarot as a path of healing | Grounding & Centering
Learning to ground + center isn’t just to be able to react better to stress, but to allow us to focus the mind on what we want to focus on.
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.
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.
Coven Verse | A Witch’s Lent, by Sarah Diane
"The homestead that housed a hundred years of earth-workers / and caught crying babes, covered their heads / from cold country nights - it couldn't last forever."
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.
Coven Verse | We are all made witches, by Ellie Wiseman
"We are rising in a wave
Drawn up by mother moon
And when it breaks, then you will know
Why they feared us in centuries before."
Altar | New year, January, full moon in Cancer
Reminders that magic
- symbolism
-- messages
--- guidance
---- healing
are available here, around me, wherever I am.
OPEN THREAD: All of our magical gifts!
From radical readings to spell kits, intuitive tea blends to books, decks, art and apparel, LRT writers share their gift-able suggestions in this open thread post. Jump in and share your own links, too!
Many Moons: Full moon in Taurus
Sarah Gottesdiener shares profound reflections on abundance and 'enough' for the full moon.
The Moon: All is not what it seems
It is scary to see what is normally tucked away inside, out in the open, using its voice. But it is liberating, too, to give space to that untamed, unsocialised nature. To let your wolf howl.
INTERVIEW | Katie West on her upcoming anthology Becoming Dangerous
Maranda interviews Katie West on her upcoming anthology for witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels.
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.