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First Dibs Friday – Moon Phase Incense
This week’s First Dibs Offer is for my ritually crafted and blended, Full and Dark Moon Loose Incense. Half an ounce each of these luscious blends. As always they are composed of 9 herbs, resins and oils, each chosen to … Continue reading
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Tagged dark moon, full moon, herbal magick, herbs, incense, magick, magickal lifestyle, magickal living, pagan, ritual, Wicca, witchcraft
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Tarot Tuesday – Doubt & Delay
Today’s pull is from one of my very old decks. This is the Knapp Tarot, 1929 original printing deck. Even the reproduction decks are long out of print and quite sought after by collectors. It’s slightly reminiscent of the Rider-Waite, … Continue reading
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Tagged dark moon, magickal lifestyle, magickal living, pagan, tarot, tarot Tuesday, Wicca, witchcraft
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Imbolc, St Brigid’s Day, & Groundhog Day – A Cross Quarter Celebration by Any Name
Halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox and it’s time to party, right? In Thornesworld this means a cleaning of the altar, some Calendula and Swiss Chard that made it through winter as offerings, baking some herb and seed breads … Continue reading
Tarot Tuesday – Awakening and Renewal
For this week’s tarot forecast I’m using this lovely Shadowscape Tarot, by Stephanie Put-Mun Law. It’s a little light on symbolism for my taste, but a gorgeously illustrated deck full of flowing and fantastical imagery. I was given her book … Continue reading
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Tagged magick, magickal lifestyle, magickal living, pagan, tarot, tarot Tuesday, Wicca, witchcraft
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The Call of Your Magickal Muse – Living a Magickal Lifestyle
Do you follow your intuition? It can be hard to do sometimes, am I right? Learning to distinguish worry, for instance, from actual intuition. Learning to discern between desire and will. Tough stuff. The hardest part, I think, is quieting … Continue reading
Posted in Magickal Craft, Magickal Living, Making Magick
Tagged banish, candle magick, Crafting, dark moon, foresight, fuck off, herbal magick, hermetic, hoodoo, insight, intuition, leave me alone, magick, magickal lifestyle, magickal living, new moon, pagan, Santeria, spell crafting, spells, Thelema, voodoo, voudun, Wicca, witchcraft
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The Thinning of the Veil – Celebrations of Life and Death
Many years ago I began a personal tradition of seasonal rituals, offerings and acknowledgment of my ancestors and loved ones who had passed beyond the veil. I had small mementos, cremains and ethnic items representing my somewhat mixed heritage all … Continue reading
13 Things about Thorne and Thornesworld
1) My magickal / internet / tattoo name, Thorne, has multiple and complex layers of meaning. 2) Regarding my use of Thorne as an internet moniker, many years ago in the dark ages of the internet, when we all lived … Continue reading
Posted in 13 Things, Magickal Living
Tagged Alistair Crowley, Cahuilla, Crowley, human rights, magick, magickal lifestyle, magickal living, politics, the law, Thelema, Vanyume, witch, witchcraft
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Walking Under Ladders, or: 13 Daily Practices of a Practical Witch
Here we go with another round of 13’s. I love the number because of its associations with bad luck and other foolish superstition. There are big differences between traditional ways of the wise that have been passed down through the … Continue reading
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Tagged hermetic, hoodoo, magick, magickal lifestyle, magickal living, pagan, practical magick, voodoo, voudun, Wicca, witchcraft
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Fall Housecleaning, The Witchy Way
Here in Thornesworld I’m not all that hot on Spring Cleaning. In the spring I’m just too busy getting outdoors in the garden to really clean house. I know, I know. Spring cleaning began as the way to clean out … Continue reading