Charm Casting Part 7: Casting and Narrowing Down
Once you've made your preparations, the next step is to select the charms for the reading. You can: Deliberately pick charms with meanings that are useful...
ACNH Tarot: Ace of Bells
This was a winter art exchange present for someone who likes Animal Crossing and Tarot. I thought about what the other suits would be, but didn't have time...
Color Magic Revisited - Going Deeper
I was just introduced to Colour Cubes, which are decks of cards with a color palette on each one. This got me thinking: I know what individual colors mean to...
A Heavier World: Born in Winter
In the first virtual get-together for A Softer World, Effy Wild (the facilitator) mentioned that she enjoys heavy music some of the time. Which made me...
Recommended Reading
The charm casting posts will continue soon, but in the meantime, I was reminded yesterday that I have a short list of books to kickstart a new witch's...
Knitting Tip: Better Striped Edges
I may not normally write about knitting, but I enjoy it and I want to share a technique I figured out by myself. This is good for when you're transitioning...
Charm Casting Part 6: Preparing for a Reading
Apologies for the delay - I was planning to combine this part with performing a reading, the performing section is getting an overhaul from my old class...
Charm Casting Part 5: Dedicating Your Kit
Dedicating or consecrating your charm casting kit is an optional step. I'm not going to provide a ritual, but I'll say that you should consider whether you...
Charm Casting Part 4: Other Handy Supplies
There are a few things handy to have for charm casting, besides what I've already covered. First: charm storage. If you separate all of your charms into...
Charm Casting: Part 3 - Making and Finding Maps
There are some premade maps out there - Xia Hunt has a few and Etsy of course will provide - but you can make your own for even more customization goodness,...
Charm Casting: Part 2 - Choosing Charms
In hindsight, this is a big enough topic that I'll put the rest of my information about supplies in one or more subsequent posts! How many charms should you...
Charm Casting: Part 1 - What is it and why do it?
This series of posts is largely based on a class I taught at Ann Arbor Pagan Pride Day 2024. I'll expand on how to interpret a casting from what was...
Color Dice: Part 5 - Experiences
(If you don't see a Part 4, it's because that part is for subscribers only!) For a long time, I had only 13 colors in my system and viewed them largely in...
Color Dice: Part 4 - My Color System
I decided to make this post followers only to put a little barrier between AI content scrapers and this information. Here's hoping it works, because I don't...
Color Dice: Part 3 - The Dice
I decided to use a base 10 numerology system, so I use d10s. I looked at several systems: The one James R. Eads used for The Cerulean Sequence, which is the...
Color Dice: Part 2 - Building a System
Since my color system is based on my personal associations and my energy body, I'd be surprised if it clicked in the same way for others. Not to mention that...
Color Dice: Part 1 - Introduction
In 2007 or 2008, I developed a color magic system that I intended to use both in real life and in stories I planned to write. The stories are still on hold...
A Softer World Volumes 1 & 3
A Softer World is an art journaling class taught by Effy Wild - see https://learn.effywild.com/ for details. We're three volumes in so far; lessons are...
Northumbrian Futhorc Rune Cards
These took me a few weeks! They're ATC/poker sized and I used mostly Mungyo watercolors, with three metallic colors from Beam Paints. Some of the colors were...
Welcome!
I've tried other platforms and I've considered other possibilities, but it feels like Ghost is the right thing. I don't have anything specific prepared for...