I have loved essential oils and used them in my home for over 20 years. I love their delicate and uplifting scent, and I love their miraculous properties for healing and emotional well being.

The second harvest Sabbat is here! Mabon is the time when the harvest has hit high gear, tables are covered with an abundance of produce, herbs, grains...the bounty that is the harvest is never so apparent as it is at Mabon.

Making salve is an ancient practice. Salves are a wonderful method for administering some herbal preparations through touch - one of the oldest healing modalities known to man.

Numerology is the ancient study of the mysticism of numbers. In numerology, each number has a specific "vibration", allowing it to resonate with certain properties. Learning these properties and understanding how they relate to each other and to other things, helps tremendously with the study of Tarot, Astrology and with Witchcraft and Magic.

The earliest versions of perfume were crafted from essential oils and resins dissolved in oils. Man has been using fragrant compounds for personal aesthetics and for religious rites for eons.

The use of smoke to purify and sanctify space, tools and people is thousands of years old. Ritual use of incense has been handed down us through the ages as a way to make ritual more sacred.

In Witchcraft, an Athame or ritual dagger is used to represent the element of Fire. Typically the Athame is a dagger or short blade with a black handle. The Athame is one of the sacred ritual tools used by some Witches in the process of casting their ritual circle.

One of the greatest obstacles for new practitioners of Witchcraft has always been the learning curve. You know, the vast amount of information needed to practice. Information on stones and crystals, herbs, oils, astrology, numerology...the list goes on. We put tremendous pressure on ourselves to be instant experts with all this information from the very beginning of our practice.

The impact of the Moon is felt in YOUR moon sign as it influences your emotions and how your emotional life will progress. The impact of the moon sign each day has an influence on all of us and on what we do, how we think, what works well vs. what is challenging. And the moon sign can impact our manifestation and our magic - maybe most of all.