Practical Magick

Samhain: Magick Retrieval Shamanic Ritual

2018 has been a brutal year. The horrors that usually lurk and whisper are rising and raging, baiting fights and all-out war over that which should not be divisive: human rights and the health of our home planet. They have radicalized and weaponized compassion and cruelty, defining and bending them to their will and purpose […]

The Samhain Revenant Tarot Spread

We live on as ghosts. There are parts of us and our history that have died. We no longer have use for them yet they linger. They hover near, long ghostly fingers tugging at our hair. Heavy booted footsteps dragging on the floor of our dreams. Sometimes they even come knocking on our doors, hoping […]

Hiding in the Shadows: Hela’s Runes

Exploring the Shadows of Mystic Traditions Many esoteric systems and magical cosmologies have a profound correlation with the three-tiered view of the Universe which was held by many ancient civilizations. The Upper, Lower and Middle realms of shamanic traditions are echoed in Hermetic thought, alchemy and Kabbalah. In these systems we find an interconnected symbolism […]

For Our Beloved Dead: Blood Moon Myths, Sacrificial Groves, and Harvest Fire Storytelling

Sit beside this slow-cracking harvest fire with me, pilgrim. The business of that swelling blood moon is to nudge our nightdreams toward our majestic dead, and I’ll be damned if she hasn’t done just that. I’ve got ancestral stories of woad-painted and long-tongued warrioresses bubbling in my blood, and I can feel those just sharpened […]