Magic is within us and all around us, every day of our lives. The eyes of wisdom see it in the sunshine, the gentle light...

Posts in this section will be bits and pieces of useful magic you can learn and carry with you in daily life (less formal than those in the “Rituals” section) or practical skills and methods to help in your magical practice.
Practical Magic was a 1998 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman; see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Magic . If you’ve not seen it, please do; we highly recommend it! But for those who’ve watched it, no, we can’t teach you the secret of the self-stirring coffee cup.
What we can do, we hope, is help you make your life better and safer in small ways with a minimal investment – often none! – in the way of physical equipment.
Magic is within us and all around us, every day of our lives. The eyes of wisdom see it in the sunshine, the gentle light...
“Magic’s just somebody else’s technology, that we don’t happen to understand. Yet.” -- Nick Valentine’s paraphrase of...
This pattern is very basic and designed for the absolute novice, so I’ve kept everything as simple as possible. I have...
Knobbed candles have been a spellcasting essential in a number of traditions, notably Voodoo and those related to it. The...
(And yes, that’s pronounced “mini-burp.” It’s a running joke among the Associates!) It’s a dangerous world out there. And I...