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Tales from the Gathering: Passage Through the Underworld

After lunch on the Saturday of the Gathering Festival it was time for the main ritual which was hosted by an initiate of the Wolven Path Tradition – an oral tradition based in prehistoric European sh...

2 days ago

Tales from Between the Worlds

The Gathering for Life on Earth is British Columbia’s main Pagan festival and has been a successful gathering of community for over twenty years now. It’s where all the different local pa...

2 days ago

Sacred Wands, Runestaves, and Beads

This month has been full of woodworking for me. I made more pieces over a period of a week than I’ve made in a year. It felt really good to dive into it again, this time with confidence knowing...

4 days ago

Protected: Back Room Blog #2

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4 days ago

Tales from Bones of the Ancestors

I have been gone for weeks and yet it feels like almost no time has passed. That is the way of things. Beauty and joy are gone to quickly whereas the daily grind sometimes seems endless. How to descr...

6 days ago

A Meadful Beltuinn

My Beltuinn eve was spent out of town by the sea with the European shaman-folk feasting, chanting, dancing, and drumming. Dressed all in white, we listened to mythical stories and learned dances and ...

03 may 12

Of Black Henbane and Black Bear Fat

Straining the rendered bear fat A while back I wrote about being lucky enough to get my hands on some fresh local black bear fat which I rendered over a period of days into an oil this winter. I had ...

26 apr 12

Black Bear and Holly Drum Beater

Being an artisan I can’t just make an ordinary drum beater, no, it must be awesomely fancy or my inner art nerd is not happy. Carved from a holly branch ritually harvested from a friend’s...

24 apr 12

The Back Room

You may not know they exist, you may have heard rumours about them, or maybe you’ve been invited into a back room. Maybe one day when you were visiting your favourite botanica or occult shop th...

17 apr 12

Protected: The Back Room Blog #1

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16 apr 12

The Witch’s Egg Moon

I prepared a small feast of fruits, great Granny’s fruitcake recipe made by my mom, and cracked open a bottle of local ale for the Moon and my spirits. I lit the candles and spoke my invocation...

07 apr 12

The Priestesses Make Mead

Last week I got together with my lovely friend Nikiah, a beekeeper and priestess, to teach her how to make mead. She wanted a deep red-coloured mead and chose to go with pomegranate-blackberry for he...

07 apr 12

Antler and Holly Bear Drum

The sixteen-inch bear hide frame drum is crafted by Grant (aka “the shaman”) over at Wulfric Spirit Craft with a maple wood frame and sinew lacing. To see it’s creation, go read &...

02 apr 12

How to See in the Dark: A Practitioners’ Dialogue on Working with Darkness in Magic

“The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their ...

30 mar 12

The Garden of Blood and Bones

Palo Mayombe – The Garden of Blood and Bones by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold This treasure arrived today at my door and I stroked its besigiled cover as I brought it across my threshold. I have ...

28 mar 12

By Sacred Wood and Blade and Smoke

The pungent smoke curls up into the air as the red-hot sliver of metal slides across the surface of wood leaving black marks etched in its wake. Curls of wood fly and skid across the oak floors as th...

28 mar 12 1 person likes this

Land Guardianship

Originally published in “The Cauldron“ issue #142, November 2011 The farmer made his way slowly around the whole of his land beating the bounds with a handful of freshly cut birch twigs p...

25 mar 12

Mise en Place

The wood surface washed with florida water, the blue cloth spread, and the wolf fur laden with bone, skull, horn, and wing; the altar is remade and returned to its original home on the antique dresse...

23 mar 12

Own Your Shit, or How I Became a Witch

Shit’s been getting real. I don’t know if it’s the solar flares, the spring equinox, the dark moon, and retrogrades of Mars, Mercury, and Saturn all happening this week or if itR...

22 mar 12

Mischief with Magicians

Translate “mischief” to alcohol and dirty jokes and then you have my past week. First I bottled the long-awaited aphrodisiac mead with Holly, Tyson, Saturn, and a boa constrictor. We dran...

17 mar 12

Women’s Mysteries at the Full Moon

A big full yellow moon on International Women’s Day – I took it as a sign and went to my good friend’s discussion on her book Moon Mysteries at Banyen and forwent the chilled beaut...

09 mar 12

Crafting Keys for Altered States

After the long process of grinding poison herbs, infusing them in oils, melting in the beeswax, and pouring the elixirs into jars – all the flying and fairy ointments are actually available at ...

06 mar 12

Success or “This Content is Currently Unavailable”

Just an update about the whole plagiarism scandal — this afternoon I received notification from Facebook that the ungentleman in question’s Facebook profile and page have been removed due...

05 mar 12

Mess With a Witch – Tempt Fate

It still utterly and completely boggles my mind why anyone would intentionally do something dishonourable to a witch – especially a witch who works openly with both hands and has a small army o...

03 mar 12

Mountain Mead Party

Us witches and heathens all jumped in the car and headed to Huntress and Thicket‘s homestead in the mountains for a good ole fashioned mead party. There had been quite the blizzard the night be...

28 feb 12

The Naturalist’s Altar

I befriended an entomologist in Oregon who studies bees (and whose name coincidentally means honey bee) and we performed a naturalist’s trade – Pacific Northwest bee specimens and a beaut...

21 feb 12

Drums, Antlers, and Sacred Woods

My home is full of drums, sacred woods, and antlers. Can you smell the rawhides and the scent of cedar wood? The drums were made by my friend Grant (aka “the shaman”) for me to sell in t...

18 feb 12

Divination by Rock-Paper-Scisso rs

This is what happens when you pair two very goofy witch-seers, a pipe of visionary herbs, and some tarot reading. Some mystics get treatises on life, the universe, and everything – we get divi...

13 feb 12

Go Outside

“Our base is the Divine Life of the universe. Our means of keeping in touch with it cannot be through any man-made dogma, but through nature, which man did not make. Mens’ hands wrote all...

12 feb 12

Imbolc, Fog, Oracles and the Bone Moon

I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to post about all my adventures in between work, so you’ll get it all in one long post and with luck I’ll catch up with myself! Last week ...

10 feb 12

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