Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Tara Sanchez, author of the new Urban Faery Magick. Gnosis is a word that drifts in and out of fashion, mostly because people forget to prefix it with the words "personal" and "unverifiable." If we are to be true to ourselves, all we can ever say is that our Gnosis is just that: deeply personal and provable only to our own hearts and minds. However, this leaves some of us in an awkward position: if the Gods or Spirits we are working with do not want to put on a visual display, they jolly well won't. So, how do we "know" that what we are experiencing is real if it cannot be seen? Take working the with the Fae, for example; full corporeal

Here in the northern hemisphere, Ostara, the Spring Equinox, is almost upon us, but for our southern hemisphere friends, it is time for the Autumn Equinox/Mabon. To help you celebrate, we’ve rounded up our best rituals, spells, books, and more! 13 Hidden Traditions of Mabon: Discover the origins of the festival along with 13 hidden traditions that may well be worth resurrecting for our own harvest celebrations.     A Dark Moon Ritual for Fall: The new moon is a time when many say that magic and meditative activity should be forgone. Instead, bravely travel inward and find what the darkness is hiding from you. Revel in this harvest season and commune with the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Cory Thomas Hutcheson, author of the new New World Witchery. For those who take an interest in North American folk magic, it is impossible to learn for long without realizing very quickly just how much all of American folk magic owes to its legacy of Black practitioners. This includes not just the practice of the African American folk magical system commonly called "Hoodoo," but also the broader history of magic in America as well. Folk magic is largely alive and well because of the contributions of Black Americans, and yet I often see that while people recognize the presence of Black practices, they sometimes don't know much about historical

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Michael Furie, author of Supermarket Magic, Spellcasting for Beginners, Spellcasting: Beyond the Basics, and the new Witch's Book of Potions. Though a bubbling cauldron filled with herbs and liquid releasing fragrant steam into the air is a potent stereotype of witchcraft, it does not seem to be a large part of modern practice. The cauldron, while still a valued magical implement of a great many witches, has shifted from being a practical cooking pot and potion-brewing vessel to more symbolic uses. Acting as a censer, fire pit, or spell receptacle are all perfectly appropriate and powerful functions of a witch's cauldron; I'm not speaking