Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Gwion Raven, author of The Magick of Food and the new Life Ritualized. I recently moved. I absolutely love my new home. It's a better fit for my family. The house is a little more spacious than my last place. There are more windows, so subsequently more light. Apart from actual daylight streaming in through the windows and skylights, there's a feeling of lightness. By that, I mean there is an openness, an airiness, and a sense that I can stretch out and breathe here. It's taken some time to feel comfortable, to feel I belong.The house feels welcoming and that's not by accident. I treated the moving process as a sacred rite of passage and, in

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Gwion Raven, author of the new Magick of Food. Have you noticed that anytime you invite a few people over, within ten minutes, every guest is inexplicably standing in the kitchen? Why is that? What's the secret power an oven, a cutting board, and a double stainless steel sink project, that renders a perfectly plush sofa and accompanying comfy chairs, completely useless? I think there are two reasons. One is totally practical, the other leans to biology, and both can be cultivated by magick. Kitchens Are Weirdly Comfortable The last time you visited someone else's house and wound up in their kitchen, I bet you leaned against the cupboards