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Contents

Provocative Opinions on Contemporary Topics

Deborah Lipp

Smart practitioners of magic know how to protect themselves. Learn to identify the signs and causes of a curse and how to remove it. Includes specific techniques to shield yourself and your home.

Susan Pesznecker

As a writing teacher and a Pagan, Sue Pesznecker has a lot of fun perspectives on ways to emphasize the art (rather than the chore) of writing, while also conveying how to create a solid piece of writing.

Laura Tempest Zakroff
A Witchs Guide to
Essential Etiquette

Being aware of how to interact with others is essential to building a healthy community and developing your own personal practice. Laura Tempest Zakroff presents nine guidelines to prevent Witch wars, foster community, and create a balanced path of living Witchcraft.

Raven Digitalis

Magickal work, spellcraft, and rituals work seamlessly when we are in the flow. Self-awareness and mindfulness help us get in the groove of positivity, lending immeasurable strength to our magickal lives and our works at hand.

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If youre going to spend a third (or more) of your lifetime on the job, your workplace is an ideal setting to apply your magical skills. Discover practical ways to inject magic into your professional life and manifest your dream career.

Kerri Connor

Kerri Connor delves into why Pagans (generally people who claim to love nature and Mother Earth) should be more concerned about roadkill, and how to decipher the messages being delivered by these animal guides.

Nurture Your Body, Mind & Spirit

Elizabeth Barrette
Relaxation for
the Busy Witch

We all need to relax sometimes. Elizabeth Barrette presents a collection of quick and easy techniques to balance your energy and unwind the mind and body.

Melissa Tipton

Because polarity is all about opposition, by working with polarity and seeing its beneficial effects, it becomes easier to see opposition in general as a constructive, creative force rather than viewing it as an enemy that must be eradicated.

Tess Whitehurst

A working understanding of the chakra system is an invaluable tool for magical mastery. Tess Whitehurst provides introductions to the seven main chakras, as well as holistic magical work and effective spells corresponding with each.

Melanie Marquis
Self-Love and
Magickal Power

Self-love is necessary if we want to achieve our full magickal potential. Self-doubt can create limitations both in everyday life and in magick. Melanie Marquis offers rituals to help kick-start the process of embracing yourself with love.

Monica Crosson

Whether youre a magickal practitioner struggling with self-doubt in your ritual or spell work or youre just trying to navigate self-assuredly through your mundane world, here are a few ways to conjure a little confidence.

Charlynn Walls

Charlynn Walls offers helpful tips on how to avoid magical overload after ritual, how to deal with excess energy, and how to successfully transition back
to the mundane world after events and rituals.

Day-by-Day Witchcraft

Ash W. Everell

There are a ton of ritual tools, spell supplies, and other magical objects that can be crafted, scavenged, repurposed, or gathered from nature and that work just as wellif not better!than expensive tools. Ash Everell examines some old, modern, and folk tricks to craft witchery on the cheap.

Lexa Olick

Hands are conduits of power that can unfold our creativity. From daily routines such as laundry to more artful practices like origami, the act of folding can symbolize nurturing energy, strength of spirit, and hidden power. Follow step-by-step instructions to create a folded amulet that explores the magic within the folds.

Emily Carlin
Using Pop-Culture Magick
in Your Daily Practice

Pop-culture magick is any form of magick that uses an element of pop culture (books, movies, TV shows, comics, music, etc.) in its magickal mechanism. Using pop-culture magick in your daily practices allows you to take actions as simple as reading a favorite book or listening to a favorite song and turn them into powerful and effective magicks.

Peg Aloi
The Power of Color for
Magic and Healing

Peg Aloi explores some of the inherent qualities of color and suggests diverse ways to use them in personal magical practice and healing modalities for improved physical, emotional, and mental well-being, magical focus, and attainment of goals.

Deborah Castellano
Introduction to
Glamour Magic

Deborah Castellano explains what glamour magic is and why its useful as part of your practice, and provides a ritual to help you invoke your own personal glamour so that you can access it for future spellcraft.

Dr. Alexandra Chauran

Celebrating the wheel of the year can help you get your body in sync with Mother Nature and also understand metaphorically how life moves in cycles and seasons. Learn how to practice the wheel of the year as a daily devotional.

Practices, Rituals & Spells

James Kambos

When a spell doesnt bring the desired result, James Kambos retraces his steps to see where he might have gone off track. Doing a spell-check can take time, but it can turn your next spell into a huge success and prevent another dud.

Charlie Rainbow Wolf
Making and Using
Witch Stones

Charlie Rainbow Wolf takes a look at the different kinds of stones that are used as oracles and talismans, and provides instructions on how to read and make your own witch stones using easily acquired materials such as rocks and paint.

Michael Furie
Scrying Made Easy:
Using Everyday Objects
to Build Your Skill

Most of the material on scrying is focused on black mirrors and crystal balls, but some of Michael Furies best scrying has occurred on everyday objects like plain fabrics and dark wood. In this article, Furie demystifies the process.