Tag: witchery
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A Few of My Favorite Things
I’ve linked to The Green Witch on YouTube before and this post is largely inspired by her recent thrift store finds video. I thought I’d share some of my more interesting witchy things. Some of them were thrifted, some of them were quasi-inherited, and some were gifted or bought new. One of my favorite things…
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Book Review: Witch, Please by Victoria Maxwell
As seems to be both my preference and the norm for witchy books, it’s written in a conversational first person style. This is definitely a book geared for beginners. Again, if it hadn’t been in the humble bundle, I wouldn’t have picked it up because it is for beginners and I haven’t been one of…
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Not Enough Hours in a Day
I need days to have more hours! I’m in the process of finishing up a book I’ve been poking at for about three years, including the year or so I lost to medical crap and it’s hard to step away and do other stuff when I’m so very close to finally seeing it’s end. And…
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The Evolution of Modern Paganism and Language
I was, of course, doing some reading and I came across a word as it relates to druidry and the very broad termed Celtic paganism. That is the Welsh word: Nwyfre. Druidry types of texts refer to it as the ‘life force’. Some sources liken it to the eastern ideas of Chi/Qi and Prana, which…
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A Common Dream
I’ve talked with a number of pagans of various names – witches, pagans, druids, etc – and while some are really happy being urban or suburban there are a LOT of them, including me, who dream of a little plot of land to build the ideal sustainable nearly self-sufficient little life. The house I live…
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Folklore: The West Virginia Turkey Witch
Wild turkeys are a fairly common sight in West Virginia. I have four that come into my yard to check the feeders at least weekly, one of which is different than the others. This turkey is outcast. If they other turkeys see her they will chase her away, more violently if the hens have chicks…
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Life with Older Kids
It’s that time of year when kids head back to school. My oldest is in college, my youngest is in high school and I will fret and worry and all those mom things until we get the routine back in order. It’s easy with my oldest as they don’t really live at home anymore but…
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Grounding
Every witch has a different method of grounding and it really is one of the more important things you learn to do. Grounding helps bring you into focus, brings your intent into focus, and clear your head of some of the other business that tends to exist in that space. I’m a root grounding witch.…
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Tools of the Craft
When you first start out with witchcraft, it’s very easy to get swept up into the marketing and the commercialism that social media and aesthetics have attached to the craft. Honestly, it was that way before social media too – you read the books that listed all this fancy stuff for ‘proper’ spellworkings. I fell…
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Book Review: Witchery by Juliet Diaz
I really adore Diaz – I found her via her plant podcast last year, follow along on Insta, and have several of her other books in the review pipeline. This all to say that I’m going in to this book with a good deal of fondness. Sometimes that fondness means I might miss some issues…
Witch of Crow Hollow 