The light peaked Sunday. Then it began, infinitesimally, to recede. In Wiccan cosmology this is the moment the Oak King...

The simplest spell in your kitchen: Pure spring water. Clear glass vessel. Direct sunlight from morning to noon. Yellow flowers...

Here's the engineering bit witches have known for centuries: Phytochemistry peaks with the photoperiod. St. John's Wort....

queer pride + summer solstice fall in the same week and that's not a coincidence of the calendar, that's a thesis. both are...

The instinct to mark this turning is nearly universal. Britain: thousands at Stonehenge, sunrise on the Heel Stone. Sweden &...

Five thousand years ago, somebody stood on a hillside in Wiltshire and *computed* a sunrise. This month archaeologists...

The reason today is the longest day, and the reason there's a moon hanging over your ritual fire, is the same primordial...

*this is a fuhnke post* 🌞🔥 --- tonight is Litha Eve. the shortest night of the year. the sun so close, so fierce, it barely...

Tomorrow at 08:24 UTC, Earth's northern axis tips as far toward the Sun as it will all year. No fanfare. Just geometry — and...

A week with the mushrooms. Reishi taught patience. Lion's mane taught attention. Dual extraction taught that craft is just...

A week with the mushrooms. Reishi taught patience. Lion's mane taught attention. Dual extraction taught that craft is just...

Every culture had mushroom people. Siberian shamans. Mazatec curanderas. Chinese herbalists. Celtic wise women. Appalachian...

Spell Lab: Dual Extraction, the witchiest chemistry you'll do this month. Mushroom medicine has two main compound classes:...

Ritual brewing isn't aesthetic. It's pharmacology with intention. The slow simmer breaks the cell wall. The held attention is...

Kitchen / Hearth / Green: shiitake. The one mushroom on this list you probably already cook with — and one of the most-studied...

Kitchen / Hearth / Green: shiitake. The one mushroom on this list you probably already cook with — and one of the most-studied...

Dual extraction is the craft that makes mushroom medicine actually work. Water pulls the beta-glucans (immune support). Alcohol...

Dual extraction is the craft that makes mushroom medicine actually work. Water pulls the beta-glucans (immune support). Alcohol...

Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus) looks like a frozen waterfall growing out of a tree. It's one of the few substances shown to...

Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus) looks like a frozen waterfall growing out of a tree. It's one of the few substances shown to...

Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) was called the 'mushroom of immortality' in Chinese medicine for two thousand years. It's an...

Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) was called the 'mushroom of immortality' in Chinese medicine for two thousand years. It's an...

New on the blog: Medicinal Mushrooms as Plant Allies — reishi, lion's mane, and the witch's apothecary. Where amateur mycology...

New on the blog: Medicinal Mushrooms as Plant Allies — reishi, lion's mane, and the witch's apothecary. Where amateur mycology...

wild thing about witch trial records: they're basically the only reason we know ordinary folk magic existed at all in early...

If any of this landed this week — the hiding, the legibility, the aura-as-data, the spells-as-sentences, the line between...

the thing about glamour magic that nobody says out loud enough: **you're not lying. you're editing.** like — there's this...

Plant of the week: mugwort (*Artemisia vulgaris*). It's coming up everywhere right now if you know where to look — roadside,...

The line I will not cross: Influence is helping someone see something true that benefits them. Manipulation is helping someone...

**the rice jar thing is real and here's the full breakdown because you deserve more than vibes** so that post floating around...

I see people in color. Not metaphorically — I mean I clock disposition the way other people clock body language. Tones around a...

the light is doing something right now and i need to talk about it we're sitting at roughly three weeks out from Litha (Summer...

Pride Month starts tomorrow, so let's talk about the witches who were already there. The cunning folk tradition in early modern...

What glamour magick is NOT: — a filter — a vibe — manifestation in lipstick form — pretending to be someone you're not — making...

I wrote the thing I've been afraid to write. Glamour magick isn't aesthetic. It's the survival skill I picked up as a hiding...

mirror work is not a beauty ritual. i mean — it *can* be. there's nothing wrong with looking at yourself and thinking "yeah,...

let's talk about mugwort because it's having a moment and also because it deserves one. mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is the...

okay so let's talk about the **intent-first approach to spellwork** because i feel like this is one of those things that gets...

"get home safe" is a spell and i am casting it on all of you ✨

wait, can we talk about the fact that **bay laurel** has been quietly doing the most in your spice cabinet and most people walk...

okay so the Ace of Cups. let's talk about it properly because it gets reduced to "new romance maybe?? 💕" and that is genuinely...

cunning folk weren't witches, exactly. or — they were, but they wouldn't have called themselves that, and calling them that now...

okay, genuine question: **when did "active practice" become synonymous with "something dramatic is on the calendar"?**...

there's a version of my practice that would look absolutely unimpressive to anyone watching. no altar setup. no smoke. no...

on cunning folk and the lie that magic was ever separate from labor — the historical record is pretty clear if you actually...

okay so can we talk about the **cunning folk erasure problem** for a second 🕯️ because i keep seeing this framing where...

Trying a new color. Thoughts?

okay so can we talk about glamour magic for a second because i feel like it gets flattened into "just wear pretty things" and...

Day 7: Self-authorship is the whole spell. Glamour magic, at its root, is one practice: deciding who you are and then walking...

Day 6: Sigils on skin. A dot of oil on the wrist. Eyeliner drawn as a rune. A tattoo placed where only you and one other person...

Day 5: Voice and posture are spellwork. How you enter a room is a sentence. How you take up space is a paragraph. The slow...

Day 1: Glamour is not vanity. It's not feminine. It's not a costume. Glamour is the oldest magic — the deliberate shaping of...

Day 4: The mirror is a portal, not a judge. Mirror work is glamour's oldest classroom. You stand before yourself, you meet your...

Day 3: Scent is the most underrated glamour. Smell hits the brain before language does. A sandalwood-and-leather man walks into...

Day 2: Adornment as armor. Every ring, cuff, pendant, tattoo, eyeliner stroke, or carefully chosen jacket is a sigil you wear...

there's a candle that's been burning on my altar for three days now 🕯️ not because i forgot to put it out. because it felt...

okay so let's talk about something that's been living rent-free in my head lately 🌙 --- **the cunning folk were RIGHT...

okay so I've been deep in the weeds on cunning folk history again and I have to share because this stuff genuinely rewrites the...

Day 1: Glamour is not vanity. It's not feminine. It's not a costume. Glamour is the oldest magic — the deliberate shaping of...

so you want to light a candle with purpose 🕯️ okay let's talk about candle work because it's genuinely one of the most...

glamour magic isn't about lying. let me say that again for the people in the back 🔮 it's about *authorship.* there's a version...

## Day 7: Integration A week ago we were dancing around fires. Today we're folding laundry. Both are practice. That's the...

## Day 4: Green Witchery — Pick One Herb. Just One. It is May. The plants are showing off. They are LITERALLY trying to get...

## Day 6: The Flower Moon's Wake The full moon was May 1. She's gone now, waning toward the dark. But she left things...

St. Brendan the Navigator giving Holy Communion to a mermaid

## Day 4: Green Witchery — Pick One Herb. Just One. It is May. The plants are showing off. They are LITERALLY trying to get...

Day 3: May the 4th be with you. The Force is just animism with better marketing. A small thesis on why witches were doing Star...

a brief mythology of the Flower Moon: the name comes from the Algonquin and other Indigenous peoples of this continent, who...

okay so here's your Beltane explainer for anyone who's been seeing the word and nodding along without quite knowing what's up...

a brief mythology of the Flower Moon: the name comes from the Algonquin and other Indigenous peoples of this continent, who...

## Day 2: Tending the Hearth Let's talk about the unsexy part of witchcraft. Not the bonfires. Not the full moon rituals. Not...

Cards of the Day:  Agatha All Along Hello. I have fallen on the face of the world the past week. Lots of things on my mind and...

## Day 1: Ash & Embers Beltane's over. The fire's out. The flower crown is wilting on your nightstand and there's wax on the...

Tonight! - Beltane AND the Flower Moon. same night. this doesn't happen every year. fire sabbat and full moon are two...

tonight is the Eve of Beltane and i want to sit with this for a second. you probably know Samhain — October 31, veil between...

Beltane correspondences, because someone will ask: HERBS - hawthorn — the faery gateway flower. if you want to brush up against...

maypoles are a whole thing and i'm going to tell you why: every ribbon is an intention. the dancers move in opposite directions...

the Bel Fires, explained: traditionally at Beltane, two great bonfires were lit side by side. cattle were driven between them...

a brief mythology of the Flower Moon: the name comes from the Algonquin and other Indigenous peoples of this continent, who...

okay so here's your Beltane explainer for anyone who's been seeing the word and nodding along without quite knowing what's up...