Changes

The light is changing! The robins and geese are back! Tulips and daylilies are sending their first leaves up! Early March: suddenly the days seem so much longer – and they are. We have a whole hour more sunlight each day than we did…

Goodbye, sunflowers!

The wheel turns. Lughnasad’s big, beautiful sunflowers have been picked over by the goldfinches, and now the squirrels have started biting them off and carrying them away. The plants are struggling to keep making flowers, but the wheel of the year keeps turning. Their…

“Now I walk in beauty…

…Beauty is before me. Beauty is around me, above and below me.” How have you honored the elements today? At one level, you’ve honored all the elements simply by being alive. You can bring it into focus with a thought of gratitude while you’re…

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…

Look up!

There was a ring around the sun the other day. Did you see it? When I was a child, my father taught me to look up often, and pay attention to the ever-changing sky. To notice what phase the Moon is in, which constellations…

An unplanned absence

Sometimes you hit a wall. In a world of bigger-better-faster-more, at some point each one of us reaches a limit. We have to stop and breathe. Recharge. Recharge. Like a cell phone. We’ve learned to think of ourselves as machines. Of course we can…

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…