Well, Hello Again I am on a month-long book tour with Bewitching Books Tours and this article is from one of guest blog opportunities. I write about one of my favorite topics – gardening. I have a micro flower farm on Long Island, where my grandparents farmed a...

This week my book Midnight Pages is on tour! This is the blogpost I wrote for A Bewitching Guide to Halloween all about the Motherpeace Tarot deck and the archetypes and symbols of the deck and the night. Feel free to leave comments. Hi There! Thank you for welcoming...

When I was in my late twenties I lit a fire and burned all my journals. It wasn’t a ritual, I was disgusted by how I kept repeating the same sh*t over and over -- with my father, my relationships and with the moods that whipsawed me and made me a holy terror to work...

I am shifting my flower farm, Your Vintage Blooms to a permaculture model. I’ve already been no-till gardening, eg. I don’t disrupt the soil with turning it over to plant every spring. For the past four years I’ve let the rototiller stay broken. Permaculture goes...

Sorry this might be long-ish and passionate… This week somebody told me they’d met a witch and learned a lot from her. A weird doubt came up: Is that woman witchier than me? Wait! Am I witchy enough? WTF? Witchy enough for what? Once, a guy told me he didn’t want to...

How did you get here? Wicca found me when I was 24. I always knew I was looking for something. It was long before the internet so there was no such thing as “going online” and nowhere to “post” for a coven to join. And anyway, I was a solitary even then. It was just...

Hi. This post has several links. Marketers know you’re not supposed to use links because they send readers away to other sites. Whatever. You can follow the links down the rabbit hole if you want. Or skip to the spell/practice at the end. I also know links can be...

I don't know why decisions are coming up so frequently lately. In posts, in my classes, when I speak at Spiritual Activism... (that's a Sunday 12:15 ET group you can come to if you want. Speakers share about magic (me), Gnosticism, Automatic (channeled or "direct")...

This morning at dawn the crescent moon was up, and my son and I heard owls in the woods: a Screech Owl for sure, the low hoo, hoo of the Great Horned Owl and one more... When I was growing up my mother said owls were an omen of death or if you were lucky, just an omen...

Magic is when your spells for the small but important things work: locating your keys, growing flowers, finding lovers. You will smile because inconveniences are less pesky and chance encounters become the very thing your heart desired. Also Magical If you're not into...