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Book Finds for Spring: Witches, Enchantment and the Green Green Hills
In honour of this season of renewal and growing things, here’s a reading list of witchery and enchantment for you.
Sitting with Spring: A Rite, Some Books, a Bit of Dirt Under Your Nails
Spring isn't a greeting card. It’s an initiation. Dress accordingly.
Springtime Food Rituals
Designing a food-based ritual of self blessing or family blessing can also be a very accessible way to do magic, even for those who don't usually participate in a formal magical practice.
Bathing Purification Ritual
Spring is the perfect time to get your energies straight. What better way than a ritual bath?
Book Finds: The Witches Are Coming, The Witches Are Coming!
From our shelves: In light of this season of renewal and growing things, for this particular post we’ll just focus on the witches shall we? Yay the witches!
6 Things You Didn’t Know About St. Patrick
Was St. Patrick actually Irish? Enslaved by Pirates? And what do the snakes even mean? As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, we found a few things we bet you didn’t know about him.
Our Family Ostara
We started following the traditional wheel of the year many years ago after a rather harrowing Christmas season. We do a kind of cross-over, or what I call ‘seasonal celebrations’.
The Fairy Faith Documentary
Here’s some dark little fairy tales for you.
Book Favourites This Spring
The devil is in the pudding! No the proof is in the pudding. The pudding is in suberbia.. I mean the proof. The proof that things can get better, is in Australia, in suburbia! Here’s a couple books on such subjects that caught our eye this month.
My Balanced Approach to Living With Graves Disease – Part Three
Since I have never really detailed all of the stuff I do to contain this malady, I thought I would here now – maybe it will help someone.