Mercury Retrograde can serve as the perfect time to get your life in order and properly cement yourself in the new year. February 16, 2020 marked the beginning of Mercury, once again, going into Gatorade. Now Mercury Marinade can be a stressful time for all of us because Mercury, from our point of view in...
Category: Healing & Magick
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Radically Accepting Myself According to Chani Nicholas
Chani Nicholas takes her empowering words of affirmation to the next level, arming us with the knowledge we need to embody the best versions of ourselves. It didn’t take me long to smash that pre-order button when beloved online astrologer Chani Nicholas announced her first book, You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self...
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Taking Self-Care Beyond its Commercialized Version
Self-care that fails to address the full dimension of individual healing simply isn’t enough. Self-care honestly gets a bad rep. There is a time for action and a time for rest, and our bodies and spirits need the balance of both to work their best. And while there’s a space for self-care that incorporates face masks...
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Five Medicines for Unblocking and Detoxifying the Spirit
Our grandmothers have been using these earth medicines in this dual-task way since the earth first sprouted them. We pay homage to our ancestors. We recognize and give thanks to the ancestors whose names we know and those we don’t. We give thanks to the Water for continually cleansing us, and we ask to learn...
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Witch-y Gift Guide for the Holiday Season
Feel free to treat yourself with this witch-y gift guide during this hectic and stressful time of the year. Just because the holiday season is adorned with silver bells, plastic images of Christ in the manger and Christmas trees doesn’t mean that you have to be. It’s perfectly acceptable and possible to insert some witch-y...
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Full Moon Ritual with Yemanja and Obatala
This Gemini full moon will fall tonight, and so as we seek to strengthen our network with our spirit teams, as a way to support us in our earthly purpose. We pay homage to our ancestors. We recognize and give thanks to the ancestors whose names we know and those we don’t. We rejoice in...
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Four Hoodoo Rituals For The Full Moon And Beyond
If you’re having trouble building a practice due to the lack of rigid schedules or want to put a little oomph behind your work, turn to the full moon — it will always smile upon you. The full moon is source of power and energy but I often tell people that we don’t use the...
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A Witch’s Ancestral Feast for an Afro-Diasporic Hallowed Season
Spend some time with your ancestors at your altar or in your sacred space, sharing in the joy of a good meal, good drink, fresh aesthetic and copious amounts of laughter. We pay homage to our ancestors. We recognize and give thanks to the ancestors whose names we know and those we don’t. We pay...
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It’s Time for Witches and Healers to Recognize America’s Shadow
What’s taken me by surprise has been the deafening silence from spiritual leaders, witches, and healers in the wake of current events. Over the last year, I’ve seen white supremacists take over the White House, normalize Nazi beliefs and violence, devalue American citizens in struggling U.S. territories and more. Though these events seem to have...
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A Ritual and Medicines To Support You On Your Path To Your Purpose
The veil that delicately shields us from the ‘spirit realm’ becomes thinned as we transition to a time of reflection, introspection, quiet and the dark. We pay homage to our ancestors. We recognize and give thanks to the ancestors whose names we know and those we don’t. We pay gratitude to the communication our spirit...