Today I was wandering the woods and stumbled upon the surreptious bloom of bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
There is much folklore, Native American historical uses, and purposed medicinal information (some quite dangerous) floating around about this plant.
In our general area, southern Indiana/western Kentucky, it sprouts mid-march, blooming for only a day or two in the same month, leaving the greenery to grow the rest of the warm season.
My hexing group is meeting on April 6th to practice raising and pushing energy in a cone of power. We've done this on multiple occasions, but I wanted to switch things up this month and have them focus on elemental energy.
We will do a short, guided, meditation for each of the four main elements. They will write for 4-5 minutes on their meditation and what connections, or interruptions they feel.
Afterwards, we are going to focus on raising specific types of energy by focusing on one element and its attributes while we raise our cone.
The Witches Chair from the Mermaid Inn, Rye, East Sussex.
Judith Blincow the owner of the Inn has this to say about it, ‘It is a seventeenth century chair which used to belong to a witches’ coven and has a curse on it.’ We always tell people not to touch it.’
A government project support in the sustainable practices of the Ava Guaraní Indigenous Peoples in eastern Paraguay highlights how Indigenous knowledge, economics, and native plants can create a climate-friendly sustainable future.
In this week’s (long) Leap Day Pagan Community Notes: how Leap Year works, hummingbirds and Witchcraft, and more events and announcements, plus our tarot of the week.
We also bring news of two Crossings of the Veil -- Diane Lorraine Darling and Edward "Ed" Fitch have recently passed away.
Read more about each of these items in today's PCN:
My partner & I also finally finished this skull installation, and it's in a spot that's difficult to photograph (right now), but it looks incredible, take my word for it.
This piece of hornet's nest blew onto my porch yesterday, and I decided to keep it as a spell ingredient. I think wrapping it with some tobacco would make an excellent banishment.
Can we talk about burnout and/or boredom in the craft?
It feels like I haven't been expanding myself lately. I spend a good bit of time preparing events for our community every month with three other members. Our paths are all different so we take turns leading the events. I partially started doing this thinking I would find others who follow a similar path to mine and we could do group work together (not as a coven but as a circle).
Looking for an adult craft idea for Spring Equinox. We planted seeds last year so not that.
I thought about maybe having each person weave their own little next out or lemongrass, then decorate mini eggs with what they want to fertilize in their life over the growing season.
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Meg Elison combines the folk magic of Lasse Hallström’s 2000 romance “Chocolat” with her own memories of coming to Witchcraft – and coming to terms with her mother.
Saints, love, chocolate, and goatskins: How we got from Lupercalia to Valentine’s Day ~ We review the Pagan and not-so-Pagan history of the Valentine’s Day holiday, right down to the goat-skin loin clothes.
Letter's to the Editor: Karen Dales, a Jewish Gardnerian High Priestess and Witch conducts some interviews and shares a sobering message about the prevalence of antisemitism in Paganism.
Lyonel Perabo speaks with four Witches and Pagans in Israel about their individual experiences and disparate opinions about the October 7th attacks and Israel’s war on Gaza.
For thousands of years, fermenting #beer was considered a household task for #women
By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.
Sound familiar? It should.
You see, when male brewers felt threatened by their success, they accused the women of #witchcraft