Deborah Lipp - 8 July

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Contents

Provocative Opinions on Contemporary Topics

Storm Faerywolf

How healthy is your group? The warning signs of culthood are easy to miss. Storm Faerywolf shares a list of both red and green flags to consider when determining if your group has gone from coven to cult.

Kerri Connor

Cannabis has been used for centuries by different spiritual traditions.
Are you ready to try it in yours?

Thorn Mooney
Not a Real Witch:
Authenticity and
Imposter Syndrome

How do you set aside the anxiety surrounding the question Am I a real witch? Thorn Mooney explores the obsession with authenticity and realness in witchcraft spaces.

James Kambos
Keeping Pagan Ways
During the Holidays

James Kambos takes a look at some of the issues Pagans face during the holidays and provides ways to keep your cool and stay balanced during this hectic season.

Deborah Lipp

Its typical to hear that love spells are unethical. Deborah Lipp explains how to create love magic that is as ethical as it is effective.

Elizabeth Barrette
Building Bridges: How to
Design Interfaith Rituals

Many Pagan groups include members of different traditions. Elizabeth Barrette explores the challenges of handling interfaith issues in todays world and explains how to design activities that appeal to a wide range of participants.

Nurture Your Body, Mind & Spirit

Rev. J. Variable x/
Harness the Darkness:
Strategies for Dealing
With Depression

Having lived with depression for almost five decades, Rev. J. Variable x/ has learned a few tricks that have helped her stay on top of it. Here she shares some of the techniques that have kept her alive and appreciative of her existence.

Tess Whitehurst

When it comes to manifesting, theres possibly nothing more powerful than the magical intention to regularly get a good nights sleep. Tess Whitehurst shares magical tips for getting deep, restful, and healing sleep.

Monica Crosson

How can you turn a bad day into something magickal? Monica Crosson shares tips, techniques, and spells to soothe your nerves and tend to the needs of your soul for a happier, more magickal you.

Najah Lightfoot

Dont let the doldrums of winter get you down. Learn how to enjoy the quiet times and create magickal crafts to help lighten and brighten the cold and chilly season.

Dallas Jennifer Cobb

While trauma is the plague of this era, we Witches are healers. Learn how to incorporate trauma-sensitive practices and make healing an everyday act.

Michael Furie
Rekindling a Witch:
Confronting Turmoil and Emerging Empowered

During times of strife, everything can seem so hollow. Michael Furie draws on personal experience to guide you to find the strength to make peace with the past and move into the future empowered and with a renewed purpose.

Day-by-Day Witchcraft

Melanie Marquis

Explore ways to discreetly and effectively incorporate magickal practices into your work day. Whether youre a nurse, a cook, or a construction worker, youll find practical ideas for using magick to enhance your working life.

Ember Grant
Survival Guide for the
Solitary Suburban Witch

Are noisy neighbors and a lack of privacy posing a challenge to your craft? Ember Grant shares strategies for coping so you can enjoy your magical suburban backyard.

Emily Carlin
Magickal Calisthenics:
Simple Workings to Improve Your Magick Skills

No matter what youd like to do betterdivination, energy work, spirit communication, etc.the only way to develop your magickal muscles is to actually do those things. Here are some quick exercises to strengthen your core magickal abilities, one for each day of the week.

Jason Mankey
Walking and Running
as a Magickal Act

Theres so much more to see and experience while on your feet and not behind the wheel of a car. Even in the urban jungle, the natural world is alive and showing us her magick and mystery, if we just take the time to look.

Blake Octavian Blair
Bringing Back Hospitality: How to Create a
Welcoming Community

Do you attend events or visit groups and find yourself feeling left in the cold?
Do you do what you can to be welcoming to others? Learn new ways of extending hospitality, which is a sacred act in and of itself.

Chas Bogan

The spoken word is a powerful tool for conjuring magic. Discover how to find the right words to manifest your magical will, and the confidence with which to express them.

Practices, Rituals & Spells

Lexa Olick

Symbols with deep, personal meaning are more powerful the closer you keep them. Lexa Olick explains how to create wallet-size protection cards that you can carry in your pocket or slip into your favorite book.

Autumn Damiana

Learn about the history of prayer beads and how to make your own! Then discover how to use your beads to open and cleanse your chakras, to express gratitude, or for any type of meditation.

Ash W. Everell

When traveling for business, backpacking around, or simply going on a holiday, a travel altar is a wonderful way to take your specific practice with you. Learn how to assemble and consecrate your own portable altar.

Susan Pesznecker
Online Research
for Pagan Writers

As a Pagan living in todays digital age, youre likely spending more time writing than you ever imagined. Here are some easy ways to do research and locate the best resources to support your work with strong, reliable source materials.

Emyme

Emyme offers ideas for how to incorporate earth-based rituals and potions into your life at the birth of a childbefore, during, and after deliveryto make the experience more magical.