Everyday Enchantments

Ostara brought snow for us in the UK; now unknown to happen but it certainly dampened the feeling of new life and sunshine! As a holiday who rejoices in the return of the Sun on the Spring Equinox and return of life to the Earth after winter, symbols of Ostara include eggs, lambs, baby rabbits and spring flowers and budding branches. I like to hang colourful eggs and feathers in small budding branches and serve up lovely chocolate eggs. I also have a penchant for chenille chicks as you can see! I love organising an egg hunt (fun for adults as well as kids!) with plenty of chocolate and sweets, and drink cider or apple juice. Making crafts such as colouring eggs is lovely and totally ties in with the spiriti of the season. And if you live with a mainly secular or Christian circle of friends and family, you can sneakily do these things at Easter to tie in with the more mainstream celebrations and holidays!

Websites come and go, but Aeclectic Tarot seems to have been there from the Beginning. I started using this website over 10 years ago, and I still love it. I just love Tarot cards, and I always go here to be inspired when I feel down. If you have never visited this well-crafted site, click now! It is not only a celebration to the amazing artwork by the Tarot artists, but a celebration of the spiritt of Tarot!

I've been looking for a moon phase calendar like the LunarWave for years! Not only does it have all the moon phases and quarters marked out, it has the timing for all the solar and luncar eclipses, and Equinoxes/Solstices, it also features the traditional Pagan name attached to all the Full Moons. It is also produced with all wind power electricity on 100% recycled materials! This is one of the "must-haves" now for me - if you work a lot of moon magic, but don't want to put up a large moon phase chart, this is your No 1 ally as it folds neatly into its own postcard size envelope! You can buy the Calendar and other related items (such as a cool mug!) at the Bird&Bee Shoppe .

Valentine's Day is a day recognised in the Western calendar as the day when couples do romantic gestures for one another and spend time together. As a Witch, the most common request for spells I get is for love. However, I never have and I never will cast a love spell for someone else. Sorry. But I will share some of the ingredients you may wish to call on to get some love and romance into your life! CRYSTAL LOVE CHARM Number one for Love and Romance is ROSE QUARTZ. Preferably shaped as a heart, as seen above. Buy a large rose quartz puffed heart, stick it in a pink (for love and self-love) or red (for passion) velvet bag with some lavender and rosebuds. Charge this bag in the light of a beeswax or pink candle and dedicate this charm to bring more love into your life. RUBY - attracts hot passionate love AVENTURINE - activates, clears and protect the heart which paves the way for love to enter your life RED JASPER -brings passion and also enhances sexual pleasure MAGNETITE - used i...

When I started out, getting magickal items was a journey in itself. In terms of incense, I had the luxury of living close to nature so I either picked wild ingredients or grew them in the garden. Not so when I moved to "the big city", although a whole new world of opportunity opened up with the internet boom. Over the years, I have gathered a few sellers on the web who persistently deliver great service and great products. One of the best ever incenses I've tried I've bought from Goddess Enchantments . The owner of the shop is Claire, a practising hereditary witch. She used to work in new age/pagan shops but was shocked at the amount of factory made items sold. Goddess Enchantment was started and grew as the appreciation for hand-made, customised items was great in the pagan community. Goddess Enchantments shop now offers a whole range of handmade items such as grain incense, anointing oils, spell and starter kits. I love the look of the Witches Crystal & Candle...

Herkimer diamond are not actually diamonds at all, they are clear, naturally double-terminated quartz. It was originally found in Herkimer County in New York, but deposits has also been found in Mexico. It can be quite pricey if it is small and clear, but do not be fooled by the size of the crystal - even the little ones are very powerful (do not wear Herkimer diamonds for extended periods of time). The very clear ones can display little rainbow inside due to the refraction of light. Healing Herkimer diamonds activate the light body, and are powerful detoxifying crystals. It clears electromagnetic pollution and can for this purpose be included in space clearing rituals or sprays. Magickal Use Herkimer diamonds to enhance psychic ability, prophetic dreaming and telepathy. It is also fantastic in any cleansing rituals. Herkimer diamonds clears the chakras and allows constant smooth flow of energy.

Happy Halloween and hope you all have a fantastic Witches New Year! :) October 31st is known to Wiccans as the New Year; we call it Samhain and this is the end of our Wheel of the Year. The veil between us and the other planes of being is thin, and divination and spirit contact is much easier tonight than any other night of the year. As it is the New Year, spells for wishes and goals for the coming turn of the Wheel is appropriate at Samhain, as is contacting ancestral spirits. Many Witches believe that tonight spirits travel freely, and we therefor light their way with as many candles as we can spare and leave food out for them. Mostly these foods left out are mysteriously gone come the morning, but that may just be the ginger tom-cat cruising the neighbourhood at Witches' Hour... It has been suggested that lighting pumpkin lanterns with scary faces was a way to deter these wandering spirits to enter your home! I just love the feeling of spirits and ghouls the image of the Jack-o-...