"When you decide to engage with the tattoo realm, you are sending a call."
Talisman tattoos: Reclaiming a ritual of self-care as old as time
See the Cripple Dance | Two of Cups: Becoming skilled in emotional conversations and collaborations
Maranda discusses the possibility of no longer losing one's sense of self in another, and relationships and friendships as always in process.
Fat Tarot | The witchy fat body: Cycles
My menstruation cycle synchronised with the lunar month. It is weird, unexpected, challenging and fulfilling.
Altar | New moon in Taurus, may I be fully my self
May I be myself.
May I be fully myself.
May I let myself be enough, exactly as I am.
A tarot reading: Fumbling towards leadership
I used the Bridge tarot spread to gain perspective on my current journey towards stepping up and showing up.
Heal & Harm | (Re)turning to mourn
For today’s new moon we revisit mourning: with some thought, poem, and ritual.
Dark Days | The numbers in tarot
Wren McMurdo shares a quick and handy guide to the meanings of the numbers in tarot.
Coven Verse | A Welsh Estuary, by Gilbert Sheldon
"She is no handmaid to perform
Man's bidding or increase his store"
Fat Tarot | The witchy fat body: Releasing the Magician and the Moon
Tarot is no mere mirror of the soul, it is a total experience: a powerful experience, a fat experience, a fluid experience.
Coven Verse | Boldness
"I carry a boldness unfit for this world / a loud, brash, righteous fullness / a centaur breaking from a cage"
May Sunday Spread | Sustainable Resourcing
It's productivity season and our healing projects can be just as alluring as any other. This month we utilize tarot to guard and manage our sacred energy, even from ourselves.
Face Up Tarot | 8 of Cups: Ripening, reaping, the difference & why it matters
Instead of the familiar themes for the Eight of Cups of letting go, we talk about the untapped potential to contain.
Altar | New moon/full moon: stepping up & commitment
Two shared altars, Em and I exploring fear, vulnerability, and stepping into our own power.
Composting Consciousness | Temperance in reasoning: Black and/versus white
What does it mean to raze consciousness in order to raise consciousness?
Queering Beltane: Magic in the friction of opposites
Where in your life are you bringing together opposing energies? What magic lies in the tension between these things? Where can we turn friction into electricity?
Coven Verse | Silent Retreat
""I'm going to begin
my silence"
Sian said. And she did
Six of us murmured
in agreement."
Heal & Harm | The ethics of retreat, part 2
People retreat to ‘get away from it all’ and I think it is worth magnifying this ‘it’ – what exactly is being escaped?
Many Moons | April’s full moon in Scorpio
Sarah Gottesdiener shows how this potent Scorpio moon raises themes of sex, death and the wonders of creation
Tarot as a path of healing | Warding
Wards remind us that we have a right to feel supported and secure in the world.
Heathen’s Journey | Thurisaz for protection and shadow work
Thurisaz is an advanced energy that interacts with and combats chaos on both an internal and external level.
See the cripple dance | Idealist pessimism & cynical romance
Exploring unconventional relationships, intimacy through paid transactions, and mutual care with the Lovers.
Ritual & Honey | The Magician from within
A reminder that you are both the Magician and the site of ritual.
Join Kristen’s ‘Make This Magical Playbook’ Challenge!
Are you ready to make your own interactive grimoire full of card spreads, divinatory games, magical maps, a finger labyrinth, scrying mirror, crystal grid and more?
Coven Verse | Witch, by Jean Tepperman
"They told me
I smile prettier with my mouth closed."