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Your Kitchen is a Temple | Elevating Kitchen Witchcraft

The kitchen is a literal temple where we take part in everyday life-saving, life-affirming rites and rituals, where we feed ourselves, our family, friends, and loved ones, and literally keep ourselves alive, healthy, and protected from illness, disease, weakness, and more. What I seek to do in this series of video and essay offerings is to give you the idea to treat this space, and the work of planning, preparing, and eating your food, as an act of spirit work with the aid of

Contemplations about Tarot: Introduction

What I want to talk about is the way I personally do it. Not that I believe there is anything special about my way of reading - some might even call me intuitive. Except that I'm not, not really. I abandoned the traditional style of doing readings almost ten years ago.

Divination as Dialogue

At its core, divination is a method of communication. If something is communication, it implies a dialogue. And dialogue implies language.

Do You Need to Be an Herbalist to Work with Plant Oracles?

The question is: Do you need to be an herbalist, educated in magical or medicinal herbalism, in order to work with plants or use botanical oracle decks in your practice? The answer is simple: No.

Reflections on my Presentation and Meanings

For me, working with plants, and increasingly all living beings, is not only about immortalizing them in art. It is about offering a shift of perspective. Working with them on a symbolic or spiritual level, even if you do not call it magic, is about finding a way to create your own symbolic system or a language. It is about discovering a personal method for building meaning in your life and within the world around you.

Contemplations about Tarot: Part 4

When you take a deck into your hands you have to assume everything that happens after that is out of your control. And don't get me wrong, that is exactly how you want things to be. You want to loose control, to become a passenger, just tagging along for the ride.