Do You Know Dandelion?
I’ve been reading - and talking - a lot about plant blindness lately, and how sad it is how many adults can’t even identify more than...
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Michelle
- Apr 4, 2019
- 3 min
You Breathe Out, She Breathes In: A Plant Meditation
Learning to communicate and make magic with plants doesn't have to be a difficult or complicated process. Many plants are eager to form...
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Michelle
- Mar 24, 2019
- 1 min
A Witch's Prayer for Peace
We pray for peace in the east, for the peace of air. Let us breathe for peace. Let us inhale sorrow and strife, and exhale peace. Let our...
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Michelle
- Mar 21, 2019
- 3 min
The Beauty of Elemental Thinking
Elemental correspondences are some of the first topics covered in most introductory pagan texts. I love the elemental system: it's a...
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Michelle
- Mar 19, 2019
- 4 min
Four Ways to Have a Magical Morning
One of the hardest things for many of us is getting up early and getting out the door for our day jobs. Some of us are lucky enough to...
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Michelle
- Mar 13, 2019
- 3 min
Three Unexpected Tools of the Greenwitch
If you've read any of the books on witchcraft, wicca, and other branches of neopaganism over the past decade, you're probably familiar...
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Michelle
- Mar 11, 2019
- 4 min
Four Ways to Cleanse Crystals with Herbs
The stones and crystals used for healing and magic need to be cleansed and charged regularly. I think it's best to cleanse and charge a...
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Michelle
- Mar 9, 2019
- 4 min
Five Tips for Practicing Witchcraft in a Mundane Household
It's a fact of life that sometimes we witches have to live with people who don't share our spiritual or magical path. It can be doubly...
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Michelle
- Mar 4, 2019
- 3 min
Four Essential Herbs for the Witch's Garden
I'm a believer in biodiversity in the garden, and I love getting to know new plants. Over the years I've grown and learned about dozens...
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Michelle
- Mar 3, 2019
- 3 min
The Art of Observation: A Magical Exercise
The art of observation might not seem particularly witchy or esoteric--and it isn't ONLY a witchy skill, but in my opinion it's one of...
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Michelle
- Mar 2, 2019
- 4 min
Six Signs a Plant Wants to Make Magic with You
There are plenty of ways to approach green magic. You can learn from books, you can learn from teachers, and you can learn directly from...
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Michelle
- Feb 12, 2019
- 4 min
A Beginner's Guide to Communing with Nature
For me there's no spiritual practice more vital than communing with the spirits of nature. But what does it mean to commune with nature?...
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Michelle
- Oct 19, 2018
- 1 min
Friday Flora, Foggy Flora
We're finally settling into our new home, and life is beginning to assume a steadier rhythm after two whirlwind months. This morning I...
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Michelle
- Sep 8, 2018
- 2 min
The Sustainable Pagan: Altars and Shrines
For the past several years I've been thinking about the sustainability of my way of life. I'm not a perfect role model of sustainable...
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Michelle
- Feb 15, 2018
- 1 min
She Waits
The oak on the corner Clings to last year’s leaves, While all around her, chestnuts and maples Unfold tiny umbrellas of tender green. But...
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Michelle
- Feb 12, 2018
- 3 min
Perception and Creativity
It's amazing how you can walk past something without noticing it for days - or years - and then one day something about it catches your...
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Michelle
- Feb 8, 2018
- 2 min
Each Day a Ceremony
What we can relate to is what we see and walk among. Any new religion, any new way of seeing, will probably grow from the ground where we...
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Michelle
- Jun 19, 2017
- 3 min
Cloaking and Glamours: Guest Post by Author Kirsten Weiss
I stumbled onto Kirsten Weiss's blog through Pinterest, and immediately knew I had to read her Doyle Witch cozy mysteries. So far they've...
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Michelle Simkins
polytheist . writer . maker . witch