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My Deck Interview Process

Hey there, I hope you have had a good first few weeks in the new year! For a lot of us the new year means new things, or an endless cycle of trying to incorporate new or old things into our lives. One of my ‘new things’ is my new planning & journaling system, and when I shared the deck interview of one of my new decks in my new journal system on social media I was reminded how I never updated my…

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Six Ways, by Aidan Wachter

It’s been a little while since I’ve done a book review, but today I want to share with you my thoughts on the book Six Ways, by Aidan Wachter. As you may have read in my reflections on July, I went through this book thanks through a book club in one the communities I frequent. Perhaps this review will tell you whether this book is worth your time and effort or better left aside as you focus on…

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Ancestral Connections: Food

I haven’t written much about ancestral veneration on the blog, and it can be a tricky subject to some, especially if you don’t have a good or healthy relationship with your family, living or deceased. Yet ancestral veneration is often framed as a very big or important element of paganism and related cultural or religious practices. So let’s have a look at one angle to tackle that: Food. Continue…

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July '23: New things in reflections

I’ve been thinking hard about what I want with my blog lately. I miss sharing my thoughts with you all, but things I used to do in the past just don’t feel the same anymore. I want to be excited about my research and interests and share that, but also not put the pressure on myself of making it a big thing. So, I thought, why not do a monthly reflection post with all the things I’ve been up to…

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The 10 Deck Challenge

Alright, let’s talk divination decks again for once. It’s been a while. A little while ago I stumbled upon some, sometimes dramatic, social media posts about your top 10 favourite tarot or oracle decks, which you would save from a fire or some other scenario where you’d have to think quick. This challenge naturally gets more difficult the more decks you have. I feel for those of you out there…

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Playing Cards: Dark Revolution & Bright Revelation

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Crafting: Devotional candles

Need a practical solution to making a personalised offering to your deities or allies? I got you covered!

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Working with Deities

Have you considered working with deities in your practice? In this blog I try to share my approach and perspective on this.

This post might be long overdue, but even though this blog never started out with a focus on paganism, a lot of traditional or folk witchcraft touches on the gods of the various religions of the world, new and old. Some people roll into witchcraft never even considering a religious or godly aspect to it, while others wish to integrate the two in their practice. Whatever your motivations to seek…

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Symbols: Blood

I hope you are having a nice and relaxing Sunday. It’s been a while since I did a Symbol Sunday but I had a topic on my mind that could fit the bill. So today I want to talk about my symbolic association with: Blood. Disclaimer: I will be talking about obtaining blood safely as well as making symbolic representations of blood that do not involve actual bodily fluids. If you find this topic makes…

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Hitting the Wall in Practice

We all have busy lives and things we want to do and achieve, and like with any skill or habit sometimes that means you hit a wall, get in a rut, feel stuck in a knot and overall just don’t know how to move forward or pick it back up for various reasons. In this post, I hope to give you some angles that might help you pick back up or revise your practice. This is a more practical post, and may…

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Book Review: Rudiments of Runelore, Stephen Pollington

If you have been looking for a relatively condensed source to get started with Runes I think I may have just the book for you. In this post, I will be going over the book Rudiments of Runelore, by Stephen Pollington. This is a small book that focuses more on the historical evidence we have for runes and their development rather than a magic- or divination-focused description, although these…

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Looking back on 2022

Looking back on 2022

Happy new year to you all! Since my frequency posting this year has been really sporadic I thought I would tell you a little bit about my journey through 2022. This post will be a bit of a personal life update in terms of habits, transition, and my religious/occult practice. I end the blog with a card forecast as to my 2023 theme & reminder. (more…)

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Celebrating: Winter Nights

I posted about Winternights on my Instagram the other day, and thought, this would be a great topic to share with all of you, particularly for those interested in Heathenry. So let me tell you something about this old but important holiday. (more…)

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Mundane Magic: Fiber Craft

Mundane Magic: Fiber Craft

Mundane magic remains one of my favourite things, the subtle incorporation of a magical mindset and behaviour in seemingly mundane thoughts and acts. I’ve written about it before a few times in 2021 and 2018, on journaling and tea/coffee. This year I hope to write to you about mundane magic some more, when incorporated into hobbies for example, like fiber crafts that I shall discuss in this…

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Hurdles on the threads of Wyrd

Hurdles on the threads of Wyrd

I continue to find myself struggling to find words for writing, to bring you content on the blog and instead my focus has been on a hurdle that seemed to increase in size overtime. So here I am contemplating the journey, the hurdle, fate or Wyrd and wishing to share those thoughts with you all. This is a bit more personal of a blog and maybe not as practical or uplifting, so if you aren’t…

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Unlearning limitations

Hey you, I’m happy to see you here. I’ve been going through a bit of a rough patch for a while now and this blog is about a main thread in that. There are limitations in our lives we are subjected to, but some of those are entirely based on societies ideas of things, not on what they actually are, and others are limitations we create in our own heads based on struggles. I see this a lot with my…

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The Heathen Calendar

Hello and welcome back to the blog in 2022! Today I want to talk about the Heathen calendar, reconstructed/interpreted from the Primstav or Runic Calendar. The Primstav is actually a historical piece we’ve found that showed how people tracked time in old Germanic/Scandinavian regions, it’s pretty cool if you think about it, or at least I think so. Why do I want to talk about it? Part of getting…