An ENORMOUS thank you to our LlewellynCon presenters today: Anne Bérubé, Frater Tenebris, Storm Faerywolf, and Anusha Wijeyakumar! Unable to watch their presentations live? Click on their images below to watch the recording! And, be sure to follow our YouTube channel, where we'll be sharing the recordings of each presentation! Watch Anne Bérubé: A Spiritual Solution to Burnout: A Guide for Empaths, Over-Givers, and Highly Sensitive People Watch Frater Tenebris: Exploring Dark Paganism   Watch Crafting the Witch's Name: Creating a Magical Persona   Watch Anusha Wijeyakumar: Making Meditation Accessible: Debunking Common Myths Thank you

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Storm Faerywolf, author of Betwixt & Between and the new Forbidden Mysteries of Witchcraft The magic of the Faery tradition is—first and foremost—primal. Far removed from the glittery fantasies of winged sprites granting wishes to good children, the real face of faery is far more potent…and far more dangerous. Looking back to old folktales, we see much in the way of charms and spells designed not to put us in touch with the faeries, but instead to protect from them. The word "faery" originally meant, "things of magic and enchantment." This we must keep in mind when reading the old stories, lest we unnecessarily pigeon-hole the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Storm Faerywolf, author of the new Betwixt & Between. Magic is the heart of witchcraft. The casting of spells, the making of charms, the speaking of incantations… Whatever the particular method, or practice, or tradition, one thing has remained constant in my years practicing the Craft: the shifting of awareness into the ecstatic. Famed occultist Dion Fortune notably defined magic as "the art of changing consciousness at will." This definition has served as a basis for the practices and philosophies of many successive witches and occultists since. Often when the new student begins in the Craft we are inclined to assume that whatever