Magic Spells, Rituals, and Exercises
This page lists articles I have written on witchcraft, paganism, and spirituality. Some articles are listed under multiple headings.
These articles all contain magic spells, rituals, and personal exercises laid out for you to try yourself.
The Magic of Unfriending, Blocking, and Banning on Social Media
Curating, unfriending, blocking, and banning in online spaces creates peace and has magical application for both social justice and personal wellbeing. Read More
Contemplations of the Void
When I talk about the Void, I am talking about a place of unreality which is pure undetermined potential, the origin and ending of the entire universe. Read More
Interconnected Elements (Fire, Water, Earth, & Air)
The elements are worlds away from isolated energetic bastions of oppositional power. No matter how “pure” the conjuring or elemental, it contains a seed of every other element. The elements are interdependent and interconnected in a balanced matrix, incapable of existing without each other. Read More
Elemental Spirit and Animism
Spirit is hard to define, since it is intangible and subject to personal experience and cosmological views. My animistic perspective leads me to define the element of Spirit as the intangible spark which is each individual soul or consciousness, found in everything and everywhere. Read more
A Collection of Minor Hexes and Blessings
It seems like the whole world has been particularly heavy and serious of late, so today I bring you a collection of minor hexes and blessings. Read More
Shadow Work and the Magic of Critical Introspection
Shadow work is profoundly important. If you do not understand what lives in your shadow, you are never going to fully understand yourself, or why you do and believe all the things you do. Read More
No Wrong Way to Grieve
Grief is love with nowhere to go. There is a lot to grieve right now, and there will be a great many more losses before the COVID-19 mess is over. Read More
Including Queer and Genderqueer Fertility
Ostara through Beltane in pagan circles tends to include a deluge of fertility themes. This time of year also usually includes a dominating emphasis on male-female sexual pairing, especially cis binary sexual pairing, yet they are far from the only kind of pairing or fertility that exists. Read More
Ethical Love Magic
Most love magic is ethical, but the unethical kinds of love magic are so flashy and sensational that unethical love magic is usually the first, and often the only kind of love magic to come to mind when the subject is mentioned. What makes love magic ethical or unethical usually boils down to matters of consent. Read More
Transient Balance and Duality of the Equinoxes – Mabon and Ostara
The equinoxes are a balance of day and night and a duality of spring and fall, as every equinox is both an Ostara and a Mabon, one waxing and one waning. Read More
Beyond Magical Names – Many Names for Many Reasons
Names, even magical names, are mutable and can change over time as we and our circumstances change, so most people have multiple names they use every day. Most of those names have deeper meaning than the specific letters spelled out on our birth certificates or driver’s licenses. Read More
Embodiment – The Magic of Claiming Ownership of Your Body
Claiming unconditional ownership of your own body has profound positive implications for mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and magical wellbeing. Read More
Practicing Loving Honesty Instead of Brutal Honesty
I have mentioned repeatedly in various articles that it is important to be completely honest with yourself, especially when engaging with shadow work. I also usually include a few words about how critical it is to be compassionate and non-judgmental in your honesty, but what exactly does that mean? How do you avoid being hyper-critical or beating yourself up when you are honest with yourself about things you do not like? It is far easier said than done, but I believe that process works best with loving honesty instead of brutal honesty. Read More
Exploring Animism as a Natural Human Impulse
Animism is a natural human impulse, as odd as that might seem in the context of greater Western culture. If you have ever cussed out an electronic device or a curb you tripped over, thanked your car for making it there in time, or mourned the loss of a beloved item, you engaged with those things in an animistic way. Animism means understanding that everything has a soul, from you and me to every animal, plant, object, and place. It is a cosmological perspective on the nature of reality that is compatible with most cultures, traditions, and paths, and an important feature of the philosophies and cosmologies of a great many religions, both historic and modern. Read More
Magic to Encourage Self-Love
If you are among the multitudes of people who have trouble loving, or even liking, themselves, love magic can be a powerful tool to help yourself love yourself more. It can support shadow work and therapy, by adding a magical push to the mental and physical efforts you make. Read More
Moon Water with No Moonlight
It is easiest to make moon water by bathing it in moonlight at night, but that’s not always possible. The energies of the moon are pervasive, if more subtle in the shadows. Moon shadow energy reminds us that even when we can’t see the light, can’t see a way forward, such things still exist and affect us. Read More
Productive Ways to Panic
What about when you can’t stop panicking, no matter how much you breathe and try to be compassionate with yourself? That’s not an easy question to answer. Here are some of my suggestions for how to refocus or otherwise provide an outlet to your panic and anxiety. Read More
Neurospicy Take on Positive Affirmations
Positive affirmations as they are typically done, do not work for me, and I am certain that is also true for a lot of other people who are also neurodivergent, and others as well. But, the idea has value, and affirmations can be approached in ways that will work even for those of us who recoil at typical positive affirmations. Read More
Psychic Skin Meditation for Cultivating Energy Body Health and Awareness
This psychic skin meditation is designed to help you cultivate conscious awareness of your energy body, and develop the ability to heal and protect yourself from psychic/energetic/magical intrusion without sacrificing awareness or sensitivity to the energetic aspects of the world around you. It also encourages the development of introspection and self-awareness as a path to both better understanding yourself, and also making conscious changes to your self. Read More
Color Magic – White is Not Justice for Black Lives Matter
Color associations are complex, multi-layered things. In the context of Black Lives Matter, white color magic is not necessarily positive or beneficial. Read More