In these articles I am working through the questions I most commonly get asked about Wiccan practice, either during classes or afterwards...

I often find I have a significant river in my life. Growing up it was the Dart, in London it was mama Thames, and here it is the Walkham....

This landscape is littered with remnants of its industrial past. On the high moor, there are tin mines – old ruined buildings, filled in...

Magic runs like a river through our lives, if we just get out of our heads and let it run freely. And it never ceases to leave me...

Part of my daily spiritual practice is going walking in nature, particularly in the morning. I’ve always been a morning walker – from...

This is really a continuation of my last blog article where I looked at why didn’t that spell work? I’ve been thinking further on why my...

Magic hasn’t really been considered a science since the Middle Ages. When we study the Grimoire tradition, it’s clear to see that the...

Walking in the woods this morning along a path veined with tree roots, I was reminded of my favourite devotional prayer. It’s written by...

May 7th 2020 Many of my students often talk about joining or setting up a coven. A coven is a big commitment, and as navigating the...

May 7th 2020 Wicca was developed in late 1940s by a man called Gerald Brousseau Gardner, a man who spent many years overseas in the...

March 8th 2020 For those of you that are connected to me on Facebook or Instagram, this post will come as no surprise. I have a personal...

April 7th 2018 I have been digging through some of my old writing, and dusting it off. It's no use sitting on my hard drive, is it? This...

THIS WEEK I AM READING... 29 AUGUST 2016 This Blog series should really be titled 'Travels of a Book Slut' on account of the fact that I...

25 June 2016 Never one to only settle for one book at a time, and eager to escape the real world for the fictional one, this week I have...

19 June 2016 This week I have returned to an old favourite, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It's been many many years since I...

21 My 2016 I have gone back to visit a very old friend. I am re-visiting Robin Hobb's fantasy novels about the Fool and Fitz! She is now...

(and it is exquisite!) 10th May 2016 Update: Its a dystopian novel set in a world very like our own, but after a cataclysmic event. The...