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Santa Muerte

Today is All Saints’ Day. Here is an excerpt from the All Saints’ and Souls’ issue: Across Mexico, on November 1st, people celebrate the folk saint of Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Holy Death. She is associated with people who work dangerous jobs at night, like taxi drivers, police, and sex workers, and they invoke […]

Mozart’s Requiem

In the All Saints’ and Souls’ issue I recommended Mozart’s Requiem, specifically the Dies Irae. I actually recommend listening to the whole thing, as this composition is one of the most beautiful and powerful songs I’ve ever heard. A requiem is a musical composition for the mass of the dead (missa pro defunctis). The name, Requiem, comes […]

Conjure your inner witch

Excerpt from Halloween Issue: For me, Halloween is a time to let my witch flag fly. It is a time when I connect to the crone in me: the powerful part of me that knows how to brew potions (of healing or poison), is at home in a cave, in the forest, or a […]

Turning Inward for Alignment

I can turn my dreams into reality through setting goals, and taking actionable steps day by day. But how do I know if what I am spending my time and energy on is really what I want? For that, I need to connect to myself. I need to turn inward. I need to develop practices […]

The Value of Connecting

Here, on the Hag Stone Journal blog I will probably write more casually and personally about the ways I am connecting to and creating magic and sacred in my daily life, as well as what I think I am getting out of my practices and why I think it is valuable.

Making Magic

We create our own fun, and we create our own magic, too. When I write that we are seeing the magic and creating the sacred I mean that we are seeing and connecting to something that is already there. It is already all around. We have to accept the invitation. We’ve got to be open to noticing the magic. But, not just that. We’ve also got to create it for ourselves.