When I’m teaching the Craft to a person, I ask them to begin a Magickal Journal.  In this journal, I ask them to begin making notes about anything that is related to their spiritual path.  A 3-ring binder is standard, as are dividers.  Labels I commonly suggest for a magickal journal are:

Daily Journal — Record your [...]

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I’d had a dream about someone and then saw them the very next day.  I wouldn’t have known this without the use of a dream journal so I could track how my dreams tend to work and what mean for me.  When I begin training someone in [...]

I’m sitting here watching the sky pour down a heavy offering of rain.  I need to be running out to handle a bit of work and some errands, but I’m thinking I’ll wait until this stops.
Looking down at the cabana pool, I watch folks scurry to huddle beneath a patio umbrella to get out of [...]

The Element of Earth is, at once, celebrated and overlooked by many Pagans.  We speak of it with awe.  We campaign to save the Earth.  We call upon its might in our circles.  We honor our connections to the plants and animals that live in harmony with Earth’s cycles.
And many of us still need Earth [...]

How to make this talisman came about in conversation in Comments on another thread.  Because I know of several readers here who work with Hecate, I thought I would go ahead and post this bit of spellwork here for anyone interested.  Besides, today is the day the Greeks would make offerings to Hecate to ward [...]

A while back, you wrote something on your blog about learning how to fly but not knowing how to land (or something like that).  I thought I would like to ask you about this as I think I have pretty poor grounding skills.  The magickal mind-frame is easy enough to achieve, but getting back out [...]

I’ve learned not to go too far into a discussion about the Craft without delving into the topic of conversation that people tend to want to hear about most.  That topic would be magick.  With a K.
Ask any practitioner of the Craft or other magickally inclined path what magick is and you will get a [...]

When I charted out the articles in the New To Wicca? section, I didn’t plan on including a segment solely about the Elements.  However, as I was writing, I realized I needed to put this somewhere on the site.  Some of that is because I consider myself to be an Elemental Witch.  I love Element [...]

DISCLAIMER: There are many different names for the eight holidays listed below.  Some are different words entirely and some are variations on spelling.  There will be at least a decent handful of folks who will say that someone’s spelling isn’t right or someone’s word is wrong.  For now and unless you really just give [...]

METHODS AND DIFFERENCES
There is a difference between performing an invocation upon yourself and having another person of the opposite sex perform the invocation.  I will say that in my personal practice, I use all three of the above levels of energetic connection.
I embody when I am poking fun at things, when I am being deliberately [...]