I have axes on my altar just now and that got me thinking about a witch’s tools again. How I’ve never met someone who has an actual boline, because a kitchen knife and good pair of scissors do the job. How when I first got into Wicca I loved that everything neatly fit into elemental… View more
It’s no secret that I plan my entire life, and that includes my evenings. Yeah, I’m over here planning my leisure time or it doesn’t happen, okay? No judging! See, by the time I get to the end of the day, I’m decisioned out. Nothing feels appealing. But, knowing that action comes before motivation, if… View more
You know what I didn’t expect about my transition? How much it would bring to light that has nothing to do with gender – for example, Dear Hart no-longer enjoys participating in my religious festivals. As much as he loves me and wants to be supportive, he doesn’t care about spirituality. He’d rather be playing… View more
During my crisis of faith, I’ve been meditating on each of a witch’s tools and really thinking about if I connect to them. What are their histories? Their traditional uses? If Wicca stole them, where were they stolen from? Each tool has a purpose, some purposes cross over, and some seem pointless. For example, the… View more
Last night I cast a full circle. This doesn’t happen as often as I’d like because I’m a mum of three, running a small business and a home. I’m tired, yo. But I pulled out all the stops for Eostre and man! It felt like coming home all over again, and I woke up this… View more
Image by Pevgrow You can blame Brandon Sanderson for this blog post. No, I’ve never met the dude, but if he’s not the first to say a fantasy book’s magic system needs to be based in science, he’s certainly the loudest. And so, in the cracks, I’ve been learning bits and pieces about how the… View more
I’ve done so much reading about cultural appropriation lately that my face is starting to melt. Some things that Wicca has appropriated have been easy to give up or change, like I’ve never tried to find my Spirit Animal and I’m fine not wearing my rabbit-with-chainsaws “this is my spirit animal” tee-shirt outside the house…. View more
Wicca’s strict gender binary is what began me on this journey. This crisis of faith. Gender binary permeates many rituals and underpins a Wiccan’s understanding of divinity and the universe. Everything is split into polarities. Masculine and Feminine. Light and Dark. Active and passive. Killing and creating. Whilst dark doesn’t always equate to evil (depending… View more
The ‘law’ of attraction can be seen as an extension of the ‘golden rule’ – What goes around comes around. You give what you get. Misery loves company. What you send out into the world returns times three. Following this rule, logic says you can attract or ‘manifest’ your soul’s desire. You can co-create your… View more
Newbie Wiccans are introduced to two deities, The Horned God and The Triple Goddess. These deities feature in the Wheel of the Year myth which I’ll be discussing in-depth soon. To summarise, The Horned God, also known as The Lord and The Sun God, represents the two stages of a man’s life – the son… View more
