The Arte of Creation

Magical Household, Narrative Enchantment

Happiest of Equinoxes! I have several half finished blog posts in my queue, all of them useful, but also all pretty bleak. Yet, I look outside and the trees are blossoming, the frogs singing through the night, and the birds greeting the dawn. I’ve decided...

Protection and Energetic Hygiene

Basics, Magical Household, Start Here, Sustain-ability

So, as many of you are aware, I’m an OG Rune Soup Premium Member. One of my RSPMBFFs is Orchis8. She’s appeared here on the blog before, with an amazing guest post about retro sigils and Mercury retrograde. Some years ago, she compiled and organized an...

It Can STILL be a Wonderful Life

Magical Household

I originally posted this at the very end of 2020 and have been sharing the link to it every year since. It remains as relevant now – in 2023 2024 2025 as ever. —————————– The first thing to understand...

Farm Chores

Magical Household

I’m not an early riser. All those people who are convinced that you can’t be productive or efficient or powerful in your life unless you get up at the ass crack of dawn… well, they can eat my ass crack. Even the Lunation Rite, which is a daily DAWN...

The Springiest Spring Cleaning Ever

Magical Household

I’ve never been much of a spring cleaning person. My mom was. Every year, in early spring (which in New Mexico would literally sometimes be February) my mom would throw open every window and door — regardless of external temperature — and start...

All the Anniversaries

Magical Household

I’m surrounded by important markers in time. The end of last week, my husband and I took off for the coast to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the day we first met (why yes, our relationship is old enough to have its own Saturn return). It was also the...