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Years: A Record Player That Plays Slices Of Wood
The hidden language of trees, translated through a record player. Brilliant.
Roots in the Heart - A European Folk Magic Documentary
Musician Jimmy Trash takes us on a tour through parts of Europe in search of traditional folk magic practitioners.
Dark Moon Magic and Tarot Spread – Facing the Shadow, Healing the Self
How to incorporate shadow work during this moon phase, and look for a dark moon tarot spread to help you dive deep, illuminate, and reclaim the dark parts of your psyche.
Hypnotizing Circle Dance By Sufi Zikr
I came across this on Facebook and found it on Youtube – absolutely hypnotic! Can’t stop watching.
Bay Leaf for Protection and Prosperity
Inside current world events, we thought everyone could use a little extra protection around their homes and families. Accessible, potent and rich in history, the Bay is your best bet.
What is Astrology really?
An intro from a veteran astrologer, that will help clear this question up for you.
Who is Aradia, Queen of the Witches? Looking at Leland’s Gospel
A brief overview of Aradia and the new translation published by the Pazzaglini family in Italy.
Rainbow Body Guided Meditation
I do a variation of this every morning. This is a basic foundational mediation and visualization for clearing out your chakras and grounding to the earth. You can build on it later after you’re comfortable with it.
Dec 17th We Bow To Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are. Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.
The Fairy Faith Documentary
Here’s some dark little fairy tales for you.
From our Shelves - Fall 2019
Dreamwork, witchcraft and gods oh my! Also a nod to the retelling of the colonial story of Canada. May we all see with our eyes and hear with our hearts.
From Our Shelves - Summer 2019
A Tolkien rabbit-hole, in the gardens of the soul, with Pan and the mill - this month’s featured gems!
My Favourite Pranayama Practices
In the morning I get up at 6 and do breathwork with my meditation, before yoga or working out. Here’s some videos of my favourite practices.
Our Tarot: 78 History-Making Women
My women - world events getting you down? Looking to be inspired, empowered, reminded why we go on with the struggle? Get this deck.
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.
Work Your Light ~ Oracle Card Review
Work Your Light is a relatively new oracle deck on the scene, coming from a collaboration between Rebecca Campbell and Danielle Noel. Does the deck deliver? Here’s our impressions.
This is What Living in the Viking Age Looked Like
This is a cool video – a rendition of what life would have been like for people in the largest Viking settlement discovered as yet – The Tissø excavations. #Ancestors
Finnish Winter Song
Recently sick with a seasonal cold, I watched 16 hours of the extended versions of Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those movies remind me what's important in life. Then I found this song that makes me think I'm in Middle Earth.
Journey to the Cailleach & The State of My Heart
A shamanic journey : please show me the state of my heart. Me and Grizzly run through the sky that turned to night - bright night sky filled with sparkly stars that shine like pin pricks.
Celebrating Samhain With Kids
I’ve always believed in ghosts, spirits, elementals and in the basic animistic nature of our world – everything is alive. But it wasn’t until I had my own child that I began to step up and practice molding my life around those beliefs. Here’s a bit about Halloween and kids.