Spring Cleansing: Transforming Your Practice This Spring

Many witches and magic-folk are inspired by the seasons—some because their practice dictates it and others simply because they enjoy moving in step with the natural world. With each change of the seasons, witches and other members of the magical community can harness the energy of spring for personal renewal, transformation, rebirth and cleansing. This energy lends itself perfectly to cleaning up and cleansing up our magical practices, supplies, and spaces. Just as we clear mundane spaces of dust and clutter during spring cleaning, our magical lives can also benefit from a thorough spiritual refresh during the spring season.

Rites & RitualsJohannaMarch 8, 2024spring, spring divination, spring magic, cleansing rituals, cleansing

New Year, New Magical Me: Advancing Your Craft in the New Year

As practitioners of magic, we know that learning never truly stops. With each new year we move through, the magical realm beckons us to explore uncharted territories and deepen our connection to the mystical arts. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner looking to expand your horizons or a novice ready to advance, the exploration of advanced practices can offer profound experiences and new insights that deepen our understanding of magic and strengthen our relationship with the spiritual/magical energies in our lives.

Holidays & Traditions, Rites & Rituals, Study & PracticeThomasinJanuary 5, 2024advanced witchcraft

Intent & Intentions in the New Year: A Beginner's Guide to Setting Intentions for a Fresh Start

Once again, we stand on the threshold of a shiny new year. For many people, this is the time to take stock of the lives we’ve built for ourselves and assess the areas that need change, to make plans to become a new-and-improved version of ourselves by the next New Year. In the context of holiday traditions, we refer to this as making resolutions; but, when working with energies and magical forces, we might refer to it as setting intentions.

Unwelcome Mat: A Spell for Home Protection

There are many ways to ward off negativity and magically protect our spaces. And the down-to-earth nature of cottage magic allows practitioners to make use of commonplace household items as powerful magical supplies. This can be a practical and accessible approach for many practitioners, it allows individuals to practice their craft even when they may have limited access to specialized tools or might prefer a more discreet form of magic. With a little time and ritual, everyday items can be repurposed for magical uses, imbued with intent and purpose that makes them just as powerful as more formal tools and supplies.

Connecting with the House Wights: Using Tarot to Connect with Your Household Spirits

Practitioners of cottage magic possess a deep connection to their homes and the land around it. Although some may think of this as a connection to the beams and bricks that make up the house itself, many cottage witches also seek to build a connection with the rich spiritual energies that reside in their homes. For those who acknowledge the spirit realm and seek to walk in step with it, household spirits can be a source of peace and comfort as well as powerful magical allies.

The Spirits of the House: Honoring Your Household's Spirits

When we discuss the link between spirits and witchcraft, we often focus on the practitioner’s connection with spirits of nature or the spirits of the dead. While it is certainly true that we should celebrate our connection to these spiritual forces, there are many other types of spirits that are deserving of our attention. During the autumn months, when the cooler weather entices us into the warmth of our homes, it is also fitting for us to take time to connect with the household spirits that reside with us in our homes.

A Cottage Witch's Altar: Creating a Sacred Space for the Hearth & Home

Practitioners who work to connect with these household energies can foster and honor their bond with their home and its spirits in many ways. One simple and meaningful way to cultivate this connection is to create a Cottage Witch’s Altar or a Hearth Altar, a shrine that honors the spirit of the home and all of the energies within it. This kind of altar not only brings harmony and warmth into the home but also provides a place where you can connect with your practice daily.

Cottage Magic for Protection: Make the Home a Safe & Sacred Space

For many practitioners of magic, the home is seen as a sacred space. Whether it’s an apartment in the inner city, a house in the suburbs, or a cottage at the edge of the woods, a practitioner’s home is a place where they can practice their magical and spiritual craft, find solace, and create positive energy. One specific magical path that honors the spiritual significance of the home is the practice of cottage magic. Cottage magic or cottage witchery is a branch of magic that focuses on the magic within your own home. It can be a powerful tool for promoting positivity and protection in your living space.

At the Witch's Table: Recipes for a Samhain Feast

Samhain is a Celtic Pagan festival that marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Thanks to its place on the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, it has also been incorporated into the practices and observations of many other practitioners of magic and Paganism. In its modern observation, Samhain is a time of celebration, reflection, and remembrance. As the veil between the worlds thins, it presents a perfect opportunity to gather with one’s friends, communities, and loved ones to share a feast that honors the bounty of the earth and the spirits of the departed.

Into the Unknown: Celebrating Friday the 13th as a Witch

Friday the 13th is a date that has a long history of association with superstitions and fears, but for witches and practitioners of magic, it can be a day filled with enchantment, mystery, and opportunity. Rather than hiding from black cats or broken mirrors, practitioners of magic can embrace the unique energies of this day to enhance their spiritual practices. Let’s talk about a few ways in which you can celebrate Friday the 13th as a magical practitioner and tap into its energy.

An Autumn Warding Spell: Banishing Fear & Protecting Yourself Through the Dark Months

Autumn arrives, bringing with it a unique blend of mystery and magic. The falling leaves and cooling temperatures invite us to turn our focus inward, reflect, and prepare for the coming winter. This is also a time when the boundaries between the physical and spiritual worlds grow thin, making it an opportune moment to cast a protection spell. In this blog post, we will guide you through an Autumn Warding Spell to help you create a protective magical ward against negativity and fear as the darkening side of the year unfolds.

A Remembrance Altar: Using Sacred Space to Honor Your Ancestors

As the month of October unfolds and the daylight hours grow shorter, many witches and other practitioners of magic begin to turn their thoughts to honoring their ancestors. One practice that allows us to express this desire to reconnect with our honored dead is the creation of an ancestral altar or shrine. Creating an altar dedicated to honoring one’s ancestors is a magnificent way to connect with your roots, remember loved ones who have passed, and tap into the themes of death and remembrance associated with the autumn season.

Autumnal Abundance: An Autumn Spell for Blessings

As we bid farewell to the scorching days of summer and welcome the golden hues of autumn, there's an undeniable magic in the air. Autumn, with its homespun warmth and promises of joy to come, invites us to harness the energy of the season's transformation. It is a season to express gratitude for the bountiful harvest and set intentions for the months ahead. In this blog post, we'll explore a simple yet powerful spell that allows you to connect with the essence of autumn, inviting abundance and warmth into your life.

The Silent Supper: A Rite to Honor the Spirits of the Dead

The Dumb Supper or Silent Supper. It bears two meanings in the southern Appalachian region of the United States – as a method used by unmarried women to divine one’s future spouse, and (as its more widely known) as a dinner held to honor and commune with those who now dwell in the realm of spirits. In this post, we’re going to focus on the latter interpretation of the term.

A Guide to Samhain: Exploring the Customs & Origins of Samhain

Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sah-win) is one of the four major Gaelic holidays, a festival that marks the passing of summer into winter, of the ‘light season’ into the ‘dark season’, and the end of the old year and beginning of the new. Now celebrated or acknowledged by many modern pagans, wiccans, druids, and magical practitioners throughout the world, Samhain’s origins lie in Ireland.

Roses in Witchcraft: Magical Uses for Roses

It’s spring in the northern hemisphere, and that means it’s the season of blooming roses everywhere! Or that’s the case ‘round my region. It’s now the perfect time to get out and harvest roses, petals, buds, thorns, and leaves, and to put them to magical use. In this post, you’ll find a collection of spells that anyone can try for themselves.

Curios & Symbols for Abundance Magic

Abundance is a hot topic word in many corners of the magical and spiritual communities. Perusing blogs and websites about magic, one will find a number of spells and rituals dedicated to attracting and manifesting abundance. Now, the word abundance simply means to have a lot of something. Although we may think of abundance as being focused on the amount of wealth we have or have access to, it can also refer to having one’s basic needs comfortably met, having an abundance of joy and happiness, or an abundance of opportunity. Abundance magic can be used to attract more prosperity into your life, bring customers to your business, open the doors for opportunity, or entice a wealth of love, happiness, and friendship into your life.

A is for Apple: Thirteen Magical Ways to Use Apples

The almighty apple – so commonplace, yet its uses are endless. It has countless magical correlations and applications around the world. The small, too oft unnoticed apple bears significant religious connotation as well – a fruit that has been historically used in invocational offerings to no less than a dozen deities and has gained symbological infamy. From its use in fertility and romance magic to its association with death and immortality, there seems to be very little the apple cannot do.

Free Printable: Censing Grimoire Page

ensing is used in many ways in the magical community; one of the most common uses being to cleanse spaces and things. Our censing grimoire pages printable is a straightforward, simplified guide to censing, which includes a brief list of herbs and incenses for cleansing with smoke, a simple censing rites, and a space for notes.

A Spell to Draw an Ideal Partner to You

This spell is intended to help draw an ideal partner into your life. It is a non-binding love spell, which means that it is intended to draw a person into your life, but not to make them love you or to make them stay with you. It is written with the intention to keep the person’s free will and clarity still very much intact. It could be helpful in situations where you are actively trying to meet new people, such as using a dating site/app or trying to meeting someone in a new workplace, school, city or other venue.