Sun magic

Simple, ordinary acts are magickal, if you do them with magickal intent. The sun’s still in Leo for a few more days and the sunflowers are blooming. It’s almost time for the state fair. It’s a good time for Sun-magic, to save a bit…

The Flip Side

There’s always a flip side. A friend made me a piece of magickal jewelry: a spiral of jewelry wire. Wear it one way, it spirals sunwise. Flip it over, it spirals widdershins. In our north-centric way of looking at things, east to south to…

How do you choose?

There’s no single right way to choose your magickal name, but there might be a less-right way. One of my friends says that taking a phrase that encapsulates your fantasy of who you want to be (and maybe sticking “Lady” or “Lord” in front…

Gardening by the Moon

As witches, we know that each phase of the Moon is a good time for certain things. It’s the time of year when there’s still a foot of snow covering the ground and gardeners are fantasizing about planting. So it’s a good time to…

What’s a spell?

Different traditions seem to define spells in different ways. I work with one coven where people think of spells in a very traditional way – an odd number of people stand under the full moon at midnight, around an altar with one candle of…

Choose your power

What draws you to Wicca? Recently I posed this question to a group of Wiccan-curious and Wiccans fairly new to the Craft. Of course the answers included “Power” and “To learn how to cast spells.” Before you get all judge-y, think about how you…