Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We’re living amid gunfire again. Neighbors apparently bought a semi-automatic handgun and now believe they can shoot it at will on their property. The problem with that is we live in an area full of volcanic rock. Rounds ricochet. It…
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Monthly Tarot for June 2018
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Apologies for the delay in posting June’s monthly tarot reading. We’ve been taking care of last-minute planting and watching the hive for swarm behavior. It would be great to catch a swarm or two this season. Today, I’m using the…
New Video! Tarot and Rune for 31 May 2018
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Full Moon Spell for Healing Differences and Compassion For Others
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Today is the Full Flower Moon and I wanted to perform a spell for healing differences and expressing care towards others. We live in such a harsh world now. And it seems as if love and unity have taken a backseat…
Exploring Tarot ~ The Herbal Tarot
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Herbal Tarot was created by the herbalist, Michael Tierra aligning herbs with each tarot card. As both a hedgewitch and an herbalist, I love this deck. I acquired it several years ago and it’s beautiful. Tierra and the artist,…
Exploring Tarot ~ The Universal Waite Tarot
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Universal Waite Tarot deck is a shinier version of the traditional Rider-Waite deck. I’ve been using the Rider-Waite deck for my somewhat daily tarot and rune YouTube webcasts which I actually like better now than the shinier version but…
Elemental Correspondences In Witchcraft
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. As above, so below. Everything has its correspondence. Witches use correspondences in magickal workings to align specific energies together to create a greater effect. They can be elemental in nature but all things correspond to something else. Elemental energies, however,…
Exploring Tarot ~ The Silver Witchcraft Tarot
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Well, I have to say that the Silver Witchcraft Tarot deck is interesting. Barbara Moore is its creator and Franco Rivolli its artist. At first blush, it seems more simplistic than other decks, but every time I think such heresy a…
Exploring Tarot Decks ~ Western Tattva Tarot
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Yesterday we looked at the Enochian Skrying Tarot deck in my Exploring Tarot Decks series, so today, we’ll look at the flip side of the deck, the Western Tattva Tarot. This system uses triangular elemental symbols appearing as single and…
Exploring Tarot Decks ~ The Enochian Watchtower Tarot
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I guess I’ve settled on the series name, Exploring Tarot Decks. I host a tarot community on Google + called Exploring Tarot so it seemed apropos. The Enochian Watchtower Tarot is actually two decks in one which includes the Western Tattva…
New Book! When Vampires Attack
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When I wrote the book, Empath, I knew that I would do another one that focused on vampiric attacks themselves. When Vampires Attack discusses the various types of energetic vampires that seem to exist, how I experience each type and various methods…
Geomantic Divination for May 2018
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Those of the magickal persuasion occasionally call on spirits of whatever ilk to assist in magickal workings, particularly divination. Seven planets influence the sixteen geomantic patterns or figures reflecting the Chaldean order of planets in geomancy divination. Since I like…
Working With Geomancy Figures In Divination
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Geomancy is an interesting divination tool. Various methods can be used such as small pebbles or seeds, but I use sticks that I crafted from a Hawthorn tree. There are four, each one representing one of the four elements. I…
Magickal Working For Improved Communication
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Communication is an interesting thing. We either do it well or we experience any number of problems if we don’t. Magickal workings, otherwise known as spells, are used by witches to bring balance to a situation. Of course, witches are…
In Harmony And Balance ~ Spring Equinox Runecasting
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Yesterday was the Spring Equinox so I drew some runes to set the course for the coming months. I’m less about celebrating Sabbats and more about observing Esbat rituals and responding to the passage of the seasons, so the equinoxes…
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