ONE OF THE ODDEST MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD
I was five years older than my brother. I say “was” because he has passed now. Been gone now much longer than he was alive. My dear brother was always sickly. He had asthma, among other issues, and the North Texas weather was not kind. My mother did…
MAKE YOUR HOUSE A LARGE MIRROR BOX
I have been using the following trick for forever. It is essentially making your house into a large mirror box. I get the small craft mirrors and I cleanse them in a solution of kosher salt, ammonia, and agrimony. After letting them dry, I wipe them for smudges and…
USE A BOTTLE OF WAR WATER TO REVERSE WORKS OF NEGATIVITY
The Southwest has its own kind of beauty and its own kind of conveniences. Something we have an abundance of here is heat. I like to use this and our other natural resources in my workings whenever the opportunity presents itself, like in this next…
MOTHER OF THOUSANDS
When I was a kid, a friend of the family who knew I loved plants gave me a Kalanchoe. It was the neatest thing to me because I had never seen anything like it. She explained that each one of the babies, along each one of the leaves, would drop off and a whole…
IS BURNING INCENSE OR SMUDGING A PROBLEM FOR YOU?
It is not uncommon. You want to clear the environment of the yuck, but due to health or other concerns (read as: coworkers or nosy parkers), you can’t just spark up some incense or a stick of sage. What to do, what to do!? Well, fortunately there…
LEARNING TO CONNECT WITH YOUR SAINTED ALLIES
The intention of this guide is to provide a basis for a beginning practice of working with the saints. It is but a brief introduction to allow the average person a starting point on the…
NO SWEAT, BABY!
The gist of this article is to get you thinking about how you can use something that is already happening, or may happen with very little effort on your part, to help advance your own magical agenda.
There is a phrase that I say whenever I go to buy lottery tickets. It’s my lucky…
GREAT THINGS CAN COME IN SMALL PACKAGES
Some things in conjure are stronger, work better, work faster, when they are bigger — High John the Conqueror roots and lodestones come to mind — while a good many things can work just as well, even better, in miniature.
Small things are easy to hide and easy to carry….
I HAVE FOUND SOMETHING INTERESTING IN EACH ONE OF THESE…
You may or may not. But that’s the nature of blogging — you put it out into the ether and maybe someone else digs it too. That’s the hope, at least, and speaking of hope, it springs eternal within the walls of your local botanica.
This first…
TAKE TIME FOR THE OLDER GENERATIONS
I saw this article while searching for something else. I thought it was cute and a good reminder of how important it is to spend time with and listen to those of the older generations. They have so much to teach and also tend to be a lot of fun!…