magic

Rainy Day Walks

Rain can add a little extra excitement and atmosphere to your walk. Jumping over or sloshing through puddles is fun when you are properly kitted out for the weather. But when your new “raincoat” isn’t waterproof, an hour and a half hike in the rain can leave you cold, soaked, and bedraggled. I was brought […]

Sigils

In the Small Things issue of Hag Stone Journal I describe what a sigil is and how to make one. If you would like to share a sigil you made I would love to see it. Post it on instagram #hagstonejournal #hsjsmallthings. I will post the sigil I made this morning for Peace and Wholeness […]

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 […]

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.