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Autumn brings many changes: shortened days and longer nights, cooling temperatures, and magical changes of color and composition. Create time to get out in nature today, even if it’s a walk in the park in a cityscape, and fully engage your senses in noticing change. Today, use your senses to converse and dance with nature. With each breath, let your senses attune and notice something. Breathe. With your eyes, see the visual changes of color, texture, density, and light patterns. ...
This spell will protect the heart of the home: the kitchen. You’ll need a few drops of olive oil and some sprigs of basil. First, dab the tip of a finger with the olive oil. Bless each kitchen appliance with the oil. You may trace a holy symbol (such as a pentagram or a cross) on each appliance. Next, rinse the basil sprigs in water. While they’re still wet, shake a few drops of water in each corner of the kitchen. Shake a few drops in front of all kitchen windows and doors, too. ...
Hearth charms like punched leaves can help us bring warmth and joy into the home as we learn dot matrix art and balancing magick this season. Punching shapes is the first step in learning other crafts like embroidery. Looking at the holes we punch, we let the light in through all those seemingly unrelated imperfections. The bigger picture always reveals a theme, and crafting with leaves is fun when we employ Pagan, planetary, and zodiac images. All you need is a few freshly fallen leaves and ...
September 11, 2001, was a day when the world held its breath and watched events unfolding in New York. The internet was still in its infancy, and I remember getting my first home computer that day and I couldn’t get online. It was only later in the evening that I learned what had happened. Many practitioners reached for the frankincense that day, as this is one of the most sacred oils and is used in many cleansing, anointing, remembering, and protection rituals. It is used as an offering ...
