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Today is Take Your Houseplant For a Walk Day and Take Your Pants for a Walk Day. While both of these sound rather silly, they are geared toward getting folks to go outside and move their body. You are certainly welcome to give your house or office plant a change of view or show off a favorite pair of pants today, but for Witches and magical folk, I recommend making it a daily practice to get outside and observe the world around you. Far too often we’re more concerned about where ...
The number 13 has so often been deemed unlucky. Office towers are built with no thirteenth floor, restaurants lack a number thirteen table, and there is even superstition about Friday the 13th being unlucky. Have you ever wondered why our culture practices triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number thirteen? Thirteen is the number of moon cycles in a year, and was a sacred number long ago when time was told with a lunar calendar. Let’s take thirteen back as a lucky number, a sacred ...
The holidays are fast approaching. Soon will begin the flurry of family gatherings, grove and coven events, office parties, and potentially visits to churches, temples, or other religious establishments of importance to your family. Take an opportunity today, before it all sets in, to center yourself in order to put your best foot forward heading into the holiday season. One way to do this comes from druidic traditions, by connecting to land, sky, and sea with three breaths. You can do this ...
When this spell was written, it was the year 2019. At that time, we had no idea who would be elected the forty-sixth president of the United States. As you read these words now in the year 2021, a new president is in office and the presidential election of 2020 is a memory. Magick is about believing and having faith in our ability to effect positive change. Maybe you voted, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you’re an activist or fed up entirely with the election process. Wherever you may be ...
