The Grimoire

Familiar vs Pet: What's the Difference in Witchcraft
Familiar vs Pet: What's the Difference in Witchcraft
A familiar, in the old sense, is a spirit — not necessarily an animal at all, though it usually takes animal form because that's a shape easy for us to... Read more...
Flower Magic
Flower Magic
Village healers and wise women across medieval Europe carried this forward, working with foxglove, rue, vervain, and rowan not simply as remedies but as allies — plants invoked for protection,... Read more...
Casting a Circle: Why, When, and Whether You Actually Need To
Casting a Circle: Why, When, and Whether You Actually Need To
The circle is old, borrowed from several traditions that didn't always agree with each other, and it means slightly different things depending which lineage you're pulling from. Read more...
Finger, Wand, or Athame: Directing Energy in Witchcraft
Finger, Wand, or Athame: Directing Energy in Witchcraft
The athame is probably the most misunderstood tool of the three, mostly because it looks like it should slice something. It doesn't:  not physically, anyway. Traditionally associated with the element... Read more...
Moon Phases Explained: A Witch's Guide to the Lunar Cycle
Moon Phases Explained: A Witch's Guide to the Lunar Cycle
Last Quarter — The Reckoning Half-lit again, but heading toward dark this time instead of away from it. This is release energy, full stop. Whatever you've been carrying that's outlived... Read more...
Behind the Book: Why I Wrote Under The Witch's Moon: How a hedge witch's fragments of ritual and poetry became Under The Witch's Moon — a lunar poetry book meant to be read aloud and lived with.
Behind the Book: Why I Wrote Under The Witch's Moon: How a hedge witch's fragments of ritual and poetry became Under The Witch's Moon — a lunar poetry book meant to be read aloud and lived with.
Above all, this book is a love letter — to lunar magic, and to my son Callum, whose unwavering belief in my path breathed life into these pages. There were... Read more...
Dark Moon Ritual: A Poem for the Void
Dark Moon Ritual: A Poem for the Void
Dark moon work is about descent before renewal — this is the phase for facing what's hidden, not avoiding it. Sit in a dark room, or step outside under a... Read more...
Smoke & Spirit: The Ancient Art of Incense
Smoke & Spirit: The Ancient Art of Incense
The earliest known incense burners come from the ancient A-Group culture of Nubia, in what's now northern Sudan, dating back to roughly 3300–3000 BCE. Around that same window, the practice... Read more...
The Double Life Of Crystals
The Double Life Of Crystals
Quartz gets pride of place in this conversation, because it lives the most delightfully double life of any stone I sell. On my shelves, clear quartz is the great amplifier... Read more...
Mugwort: Mother of Herbs
Mugwort: Mother of Herbs
Long before any of this passed into books, it lived in the hands of the village healer; the cunning man, the wise woman, the practitioner of what the Anglo-Saxons called... Read more...
The Sacred Soak: Why Bath Salts Belong in Your Spiritual Practice
The Sacred Soak: Why Bath Salts Belong in Your Spiritual Practice
Your next bath doesn't have to be just a bath. It can be a small, sacred pause in your day, exactly when you need it most. Salt has been used... Read more...
Buying Witchy Products From Fairs etc Needs Careful Attention
Buying Witchy Products From Fairs etc Needs Careful Attention
Why this matters more, not less, in spiritual practice There's a particular tension here worth naming directly. A lot of bath and body work in witchcraft and spiritual traditions leans... Read more...