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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…
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A World Re-Enchanted December 2025
December in the Tolkienian Imagination: The Waning Light and the Hallowed Stillness In a rendering of Middle-earth shaped for mortal understanding, the month that corresponds to December stands beneath the long shadow of the year’s turning. Though the Eldar do not reckon time by the same divisions as Men, they nonetheless perceive this portion of the cycle as an interval of profound quietude—a deep inhalation of the world itself before the sun begins its slow return. Among the Eldar, this season aligns with the late passage of Hrívë, the Winter season, when the air lies sharp with memory and the light thins like pale gold upon frost-covered lands. For the…
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Weyland’s Whey December 2025 Cold Moon/Supermoon Column
This Moon is a Bright Mistress The name Cold Moon comes from the Mohawk tribes, due to December temps. (Think “brr”.) The Mohicans called it the Long Night Moon since it rises in the lengthiest evenings of the year, around the Winter Solstice, and lingers above the horizon like a drone. It symbolizes transition and renewal. A time to ponder our dreams and goals. A supermoon is a full moon which happens when the Moon is at its nearest point to Earth in its orbit. Supermoons are energy boosters for traditional full moon esbats, magnifying psychic abilities while making possible the manifestation of fond desires. This will be the last…
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Our Favorite Places to Get Witchy Shit: The Modern Merlin
Hello everyone! It’s a snow day here in my neck of the woods in Northeast Ohio, so I decided to take the initiative this morning and kick off a new column series that we’re super excited for. This is going to be a collaborative column, with all or many of us here at the PaganPages family participating. As the holidays approach, many are traveling out of town to visit family, and we figured we could share our favorite witchy/occult/spiritual shops and businesses-whether a brick and mortar, small business, or online. Given the state of our politics in the U.S., we’re also looking at this as a form of protest-favoring small…
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Book Review: The Apothecary of Belonging
Title: The Apothecary of Belonging: Seasonal Rituals & Practical Herbalism; Reconnecting to the Land, Our Bodies & Our Communities Author: Alexis J. Cunningfolk Publisher: Weiser Books Date: November 3, 2025 Pages: 272 “The Apothecary of Belonging: Seasonal Rituals & Practical Herbalism” acquaints readers with plants that serve as allies, teachers, and companions, guiding us through the seasons as they flow within and around us. Working with the premise that “we are all land,” Alexis Cunningfolk, an intersectional herbalist and witch, facilitates connections between plants and people. She presents an overarching theme for each season, with in-depth information about three primary botanicals and short profiles of dozens of herbs that address…
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Book Review — The Divine Nature of Plants: A Medical Intuitive’s Guide to Plant Spirit Medicine by Laura Aversano
Publisher: Destiny Books, a division of Inner Traditions 288 Pages Release Date: July 8, 2025 Content warning: This book contains extensive writing about mediumship, aka, speaking to the dead, including deceased children. If you’re a regular Pagan Pages reader, you know I love plants. I write the column Notes from the Apothecary and love to explore the ways we use plants as medicine, food, and magical companions for all sorts of everyday aspects of life. That respect for plant medicine comes from a scientific viewpoint, for example, looking at the folklore medicine of plants or what Mrs Grieve wrote in her Modern Herbal, and seeing how modern research now backs…
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Time to Cut the Shit: The Rant About Magick, Paganism, the Occult and Witchcraft That No One Else Wants to Have
My first entry in a little while is going to be brutally honest, and I’m not apologizing about it, either. I’m going to cuss, talk a little shit (from a place of love), and hopefully get some gatekeeping assholes to get off their fuckin’ high horse! To be frank, I’m fed up with the toxicity I see in the online Pagan community, and the Pagan community at large. It’s absolutely fucking ridiculous; some of y’all are out here acting less mature than a toddler throwing a temper tantrum! This is a rant about, and to, the Pagan community, the witch community, the occultist community, and the magickal community. It’s time…
