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Book Review: Dream Sorcery by Nikki Wardwell Sleath
Title: Dream Sorcery Author: Nikki Wardwell Sleath Published by: LLEWELLYN Pages: 358 Have you wanted to improve, explore or even learn a new way to perform your magick? Ever thought about the possibility of it being done with your literal dreams? Or maybe help with that upcoming presentation at work? This is where you should begin if you’ve already learned how to lucid dream as it would be easier to do but can be helpful for those of us new to lucid dreaming. Open your psyche and the answers are here for us to find and utilize. Nikki proverbially grabs our hands through the pages, taking us on an adventure…
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Book Review: Feral Magick Unleash Your Inner Animal Self by Denny Sargent
Book Review Feral Magick Unleash Your Inner Animal Self By Denny Sargent Publisher: Weiser Books Published Date: July 7th, 2025 184 Pages Do you remember as a child, imagining yourself as an animal and playing in the woods? What about making animal sounds? Denny Sargent’s guide to Unleashing Your Inner Animal Self will have you reconnecting with your own Feral Magick again as you flip the pages in his new book. A PNW resident and world traveler, he connects the traditions of Shamans from around the world to a new term, Neo-Animism, “the belief that nature spirits are not just real but are also accessible if you open…
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Oracle Deck Review – 13 Sacred Nights Oracle by Lara J Day
Title: 13 Sacred Nights Oracle: A Yearly Solstice Tradition Author: Lara J. Day Publisher: Beyond Words Date: September 30, 2025 Pages: 52 cards and a 272-page guidebook With this oracle deck, Lara J. Day invites readers to “[d]ive into the potent stillness within the womb of winter and plant your dream seeds in the fertile soil of the radiant darkness.” She introduces a practice to immerse themselves in the magic of the winter season and celebrations by connecting with nature’s wisdom and receiving divine guidance for the coming year. When the world is cold, dark, and still, slowing down and spending time in reflection aligns with the rhythms of the…
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Yuletide, Saturnalia and Closing Out 2025
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all enjoying your holiday season, and that it continues to go well for you. For many, this time of year is difficult for a multitude of reasons, including myself. While I won’t get into why, I do want to offer some closing thoughts for those who have had a less-than-spectacular 2025. For many, 2025 is the final shedding of the skin (it is the year of the Snake, after all), and that skin shedding process can be painful. Loss, death, change, and even dramatic life altering events are likely to have happened. Whatever 2025 brought you, I wish you resolution, peace, and joy as the…
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Cody’s Column: Cernunnos
A long time ago, before the old stories were recorded, in a land now far away from my own, deep in the forest…a shadow emerged from the underworld. A large hulking presence with antlers for a crown. He was calm, the forest creatures seemed to congregate around, and a glowing metal torc encircled his neck. He looked deep into my ancestors’ souls and reminded them that they were connected to everything around them and that the passage of death was but a bridge. The Antlered One and Hooved One they began to call him…Cernunnos, Cernunnos, Cernunnos. He blessed the fertility of the land and its people. A name that would…
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Weyland’s Whey Yule 2025 Column
Yule and the New Moon This Sabbat happens between December 20th and 23rd. The precise date varies according to Earth’s tilt and orbit. This year Yule will be observed on December 21st, a date that marks the longest night and shortest day of 2025 and symbolizes the move from darkness to light as the days grow longer again. The New Wolf Moon is going to be the last new moon of autumn (not a typo, Pilgrim–winter doesn’t start until December 21st, and Wolfie rises on the 19th) and will encourage setting new intentions as well as thoughts about personal growth and expansion, due to its association with the Sagittarius New…
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Oracle Deck Review – Elemental Goddess Oracle by Bronwyn Millar
Title: Elemental Goddess Oracle Author: Bronwyn Millar Publisher: Bear & Company Date: May 6, 2025 Pages: 45 Cards & 224-page Guidebook For this deck, Bronwyn Millar created cards for forty-five goddesses, merging the five elements of Chinese medicine, the four Western elements, trauma healing, acupoint practice, and channeled Goddess wisdom from dimensions where the sacred feminine is active. These elemental goddesses are grouped by the Chinese elements – wood, fire, earth, metal, water. Their Western elements of fire, water, air, and earth are also noted on each card, along with…
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Book Review – The Busy, Lazy, Green Witch by Rose Quinn
Title: The Busy, Lazy, Green Witch: A No-Nonsense Guide to Green Witchcraft & Magic, for the Modern Witch on the Go Author: Rose Quinn Publisher: LSPublishing Date: August 15, 2025 Pages: 178 If your only altar space is a shelf in the bookcase or the closest you get to nature most days is the monument with a fountain on the corner, then “The Busy, Lazy, Green Witch” is for you. Its subtitle proclaims it is “A No-Nonsense Guide to Green Witchcraft & Magic, for the Modern Witch on the Go,” but it could just as truthfully be billed as a survival manual for the practical, urban green witch. With years…
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Tarot with Lady Saoirse- Reading without Tools
Bright Blessings, The season of Yule, Winter Solstice, and Xmas is upon us. Many of you are scurrying about, gathering gifts for loved ones, decorating in a modern way that fuses classic Paganism with whatever is pretty at shops, and planning for something else wonderful- New Year’s 2026. You are probably thinking of gifts for everyone but yourself, but for New Year’s, I want you to give yourself a gift as someone who does divination. Learn to do readings without any tools- at all. The first time that I saw someone do divination without any divination tools was probably about 15 years ago. I was friends with a Priestess…
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Book Review — Plant Energy Medicine: The Guiding Voice and Healing Vibration of 58 Plants by Rhonda PallasDowney and Sandi O’Connor
Book Review — Plant Energy Medicine: The Guiding Voice and Healing Vibration of 58 Plants by Rhonda PallasDowney and Sandi O’Connor Publisher: Healing Arts Press, a division of Inner Traditions International 320 Pages Release Date: July 8, 2025 I feel like I’m super lucky to get to review some amazing books, particularly ones about nature, plants, herbalism, and other “green” magic-associated topics. This volume, which promises to explore a whopping 58 plants, is, unsurprisingly, very enticing to me. The book starts with some beautifully moving song lyrics by Kate Watters, and a foreword by Rosemary Gladstar, of the Science and Art of Herbalism course. The introduction explores synchronicity and the…
