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If you're anything like me, you get a lot of satisfaction from being a witch. It fills your spirit, and lifts your heart, and helps you find your place in the universe. And if you are anything like me, you are also so busy and overwhelmed trying to keep up with Life and All the Other Stuff, you hardly ever find the time to actually work on your Witchcraft practice, even though it is important to you and makes you feel better. Never fear, I have an easy solution. One of the ways I have found to integrate a small daily practice into my life is to use one of the many 365 Day books that are out there. I have a bunch of different ones, some of them featuring goddesses, some with short ...
Poor dream recall is one of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to using your dreams to heal and empower your life. Immediately on waking, you are in that twilight stage between sleep and wakefulness. Sometimes it can be hard to know the di?erence between your dreams and reality in this stage. The reason for this is that your brainwaves are in theta. Delta is the stage when you are fast asleep. Theta is when you are relaxed just before sleeping or just after waking. (Alpha is when you are calm and awake; beta is when you are fully awake and active, with gamma being a state of intense concentration and alertness.) Theta brainwaves are the optimum state for recalling dreams and ...
Want to make your magick more powerful? Connect it more deeply to yourself and who you are. Regardless of your tradition or magickal methods, the more you can personalize the work you do and make it resonate with your deepest self, the more potent it will be. If you're an LGBTQIAP2S+ person, one way you can personalize your magick is to celebrate your queer identity in your practice. Here are six practical ways you can do that: 1. Create, Find, or Buy Meaningful Magickal ToolsWork with magickal tools with which you feel a connection. When selecting or creating a tool, pay attention to where the materials came from and what they mean to you. For example, I have an athame with a wooden ...
Chinese Astrology, being a calendar-based system, gives us insight into the energy of the upcoming year. Each year has an energy signature determined by its animal sign and element. In 2024, the energy was Yang Wood Dragon, which lived up to its reputation with big announcements and high-flying promises competing for our attention. Optimism ran high, often to the point of being unrealistic. In 2025, the energy shifts to the Yin Wood Snake. While the Dragon and Snake may look similar, the Snake does not fly. The entire body of the Snake lies on the ground, feeling every vibration, every footstep, every pin drop. The Snake's energy is grounded, practical, and cautious. The Snake is highly ...
