I was reading a post about tea and it gave different magical correspondences for white, green, yellow and black tea even though obviously they are the same substance, just processed differently. It got me thinking, when food is cooked then it can chemically change - vitamins and minerals can become ...

Does anyone else have pets that wander through circles? I recently read something saying once you cast a circle nothing should enter or leave it. But one of my cats sometimes wanders through and that never feels wrong to me (once she walked through then watched the ritual from the side, I thought th...

You can always pick and choose. Just because you feel drawn to wicca doesn't mean you have to follow the bits you disagree with. I know many self identified Catholics who are pro gay marriage, and that's followers of a religion kinda rooted in strict rules.

Sounds stupid but perhaps it is worth thoroughly working out practical considerations before moving on to spiritual ones. You said his life is nuts - is offering you this money a decision he will likely regret? If so will that cause problems for you (will he be able to make you feel guilty for examp...

I would very much like to start looking after some plants but trying to find a balance between plants that are good for beginners and can also survive either in a small walled yard (in north east England, so I may realistically have to forget about any outdoors gardening until after winter) or insid...

Back in work, one meeting down though I have another next Thursday, everyone didn't hate me like my head kept telling me they would. Thank you for being so awesome and supportive.

Sorting this all out tomorrow now, hopefully. Thank you all so much for the supportive messages, I didn't expect so many people to be so nice, welcoming and sympathetic to a total stranger. You are very lovely.

Panicked and didn't get in. Trying again on Tuesday. Very sick of myself at this point, sorry for taking up space in the prayer requests over something so stupid

Thank you, that means a lot

I have been suffering from severe anxiety and I just need to break through it and get back into work so things can be more normal and I can stop feeling so terrible about myself and depressed but I'm really struggling. I'm going to try my best to get in tomorrow and get meetings out of the way and b...

I'm still not sure what I want to do on the day itself (I'm celebrating it tomorrow on the equinox rather than today on the date.). Over the weekend I want to spend the Saturday giving the house a good clean out, both in the practical sense of tidying and cleaning the house from top to bottom and al...

I can't believe I searched the Internet so hard for 'how to dry hawthorn berries' and it never once occurred to me to look up the images instead. It will be an experiment no matter how detailed the diresctuons I follow are because I don't actually know the temperatures on the oven (beyond 'higher th...

Sorry, should I cut the last bit out? I'm unphased by gore in general and further desensitised due to first aiding some reasonably graphic injuries so I forgot it might bother people.

I am quite new and was under the initial impression that an athame never cuts anything physical but is used as a spiritual tool and a boline or white handled knife is used for any physical cutting. But then I read a book of candle magic that suggests using the athame to inscribe symbols into candles...

I've been going on a few nature walks just in the nearby park and there are quite a few blackberries and loads of Hawthorn. I've seen dry hawthorn berries used in a variety of tea and tincture recipes (and it seemed a smart way to store them to have them on hand for later use). I've looked online an...