From the Library
Guides
Longer reads for when an entry is not enough. Each guide takes a single subject and walks it from the beginning, with the method laid out plainly enough to follow.
An Introduction to Crystals
Crystals are mineral formations used in magickal practice for their attributed energetic properties and elemental correspondences. This guide covers how crystals are understood to work, how to choose and care for them, and how to begin working with them effectively.
An Introduction to Herbcraft
Herbcraft is the practice of working with plants for magickal, spiritual, and practical purposes, drawing on a body of correspondence knowledge developed across centuries of folk and ceremonial tradition. This guide covers how herbcraft works, the foundational plants to know, and how to begin building a working relationship with plant allies.
Automatic Writing: A Tutorial
A thorough guide to automatic writing as a divinatory and creative practice, covering its history in Spiritualism and Surrealism, the preparation and technique required, how to distinguish authentic automatic material from ordinary thought, and the discernment and grounding practices needed to work safely.
Bibliomancy: A Tutorial
A practical guide to bibliomancy, the art of divination by book, covering the history of the practice, how to choose and work with a text, the question-and-open technique, working with sacred texts and poetry, and the related practice of stichomancy.
Building a Daily Magickal Practice
A practical guide to building a consistent daily magickal practice that fits a real and busy life. Covers what to include, how to structure morning and evening rhythms, and how to recover a lapsed practice without self-reproach.
Creating Your Altar
A complete guide to setting up, arranging, and maintaining an altar for witchcraft practice. Covers working and devotional altars, choosing elements, consecration, seasonal upkeep, and solutions for limited space or privacy.
Candle Magick
A thorough guide to working with candles as a core magickal practice, covering colour correspondences, dressing and carving, intention-setting, reading the flame, and a complete worked spell. Written for practitioners at any level who want reliable, grounded instruction.
Cartomancy with Playing Cards: A Tutorial
A thorough guide to reading fortunes with a standard 52-card deck, covering suit meanings, number and court card interpretations, the significator, and three complete spreads from the three-card draw to the 21-card grand spread.
Casting a Circle and Creating Sacred Space
A thorough guide to casting a ritual circle for witchcraft practice. Covers the purpose of the circle, when to use one, a complete step-by-step method with and without tools, and how to close the circle properly.
Casting Lots: A Cleromancy Tutorial
A practical guide to cleromancy, the ancient art of divination by casting lots, covering the history of the practice across cultures, how to assemble and consecrate a personal lot set, and step-by-step methods for both yes/no and open-ended readings.
Choosing a Magickal Tradition
A survey of the major magickal paths available today, including Wicca, traditional witchcraft, ceremonial magick, Druidry, Heathenry, folk magick, and eclectic practice, with an honest framework for finding the one that genuinely fits you. Written for practitioners ready to make a considered choice.
Coffee Ground Reading: A Tutorial
A complete guide to reading fortunes in coffee grounds, covering the Turkish and Greek cup-and-saucer flip method, regional interpretation of the cup, common symbols, and the cultural roots of the practice.
Coming Out of the Broom Closet
A guide to the real and weighted decision of disclosing a witchcraft practice to family, employers, and communities. Covers safety assessment, degrees of openness, and how to practise discreetly when disclosure is unwise.
Consecrating and Caring for Your Tools
A step-by-step guide to cleansing, consecrating, dedicating, and caring for magickal tools, including a complete four-element consecration method and guidance on secondhand objects. Written for practitioners ready to establish a serious working relationship with their tools.
Crystal Ball Scrying: A Complete Tutorial
A thorough, step-by-step guide to scrying with a crystal sphere, covering sphere selection, space preparation, the soft-focus gaze, vision interpretation, and how to build a consistent practice.
Dream Interpretation: An Oneiromancy Tutorial
A thorough guide to oneiromancy, the interpretation of dreams for divinatory guidance, covering how to keep a dream journal, improve recall, build a personal symbol dictionary, understand recurring and prophetic dreams, practice dream incubation, and use lucid dreaming as a tool for direct divinatory inquiry.
Fire and Candle Scrying: A Pyromancy Tutorial
A complete guide to pyromancy and its branches, covering safe fire setup, reading candle flame height, color, and movement, interpreting spell-candle burns and wax pools, wax-drop divination, and smoke reading.
Geomancy: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
A complete working introduction to Western geomancy, covering the sixteen geomantic figures, the method of generating a full shield chart from four Mother figures, and the process of reaching a judgment through the Witnesses, Judge, and Reconciler.
Grounding, Centering, and Shielding
A thorough guide to the three foundational energy skills that underpin all magickal work. Written for practitioners at any level who want to build these skills into reliable daily habits.
Working with Herbs and Crystals
This guide moves beyond correspondence lists to show how herbs and crystals are actually prepared and used in magickal practice. It covers ethical sourcing, safety, and the main practical methods for both materia, suited to practitioners at any level.
Honouring Your Ancestors
This guide covers ancestor veneration as a foundational spirit-work practice, from building an altar to navigating difficult family histories. It is for practitioners of any tradition who want to establish or deepen a meaningful relationship with their dead.
How Spells Work: The Mechanics of Magick
A serious examination of how spells actually function, covering the anatomy of a spell and the major theoretical models practitioners use to understand results. Written for anyone who wants to move beyond performing spells by rote and understand the mechanics at work.
How to Become a Witch
A grounded guide to entering witchcraft on your own terms, covering what the craft actually is, how to begin, and what to expect in your first months of practice. Written for anyone who feels drawn to the path and wants honest, usable guidance.
Cleansing a Space
A practical guide to understanding and performing energetic space cleansing. Covers when to cleanse, the major methods including smoke, sound, salt, water, and breath, a full home cleansing procedure, and how to ward a space afterward.
Making and Charging a Sigil
A complete guide to creating personal sigils from written intentions, charging them through focused states, and releasing them so the working can proceed. Covers the letter-elimination method, alternative approaches, and the full range of charging techniques.
How to Read Oracle Cards
A practical guide to working with oracle decks, from choosing a deck and understanding how oracle cards differ from tarot, through daily practice, guidebook use, multi-card layouts, and developing personal interpretive confidence.
How to Read Your First Tarot Spread
A practical, confidence-building walkthrough for anyone sitting down with a tarot deck for the first time, covering card preparation, a simple three-card spread, and how to interpret what comes up.
Starting a Magickal Practice
A practical guide to building a consistent magickal practice that survives real life, covering how to choose a realistic starting scope, structure your time, and recognize when the work is taking hold. Written for new practitioners ready to move from interest into action.
Consulting the I Ching: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
A complete practical guide to consulting the I Ching, covering the 8 trigrams, the 64 hexagrams, both the three-coin and yarrow-stalk methods, building a hexagram line by line, identifying and reading changing lines, and choosing a good translation.
Keeping a Book of Shadows
A complete guide to the Book of Shadows: its history, its contents, and how to keep one that genuinely serves your practice. For beginners and established practitioners who want a deeper, more useful record.
Lenormand Reading: A Practical Tutorial
A complete introduction to the 36-card Lenormand system, covering card meanings as a combinatorial vocabulary, the near-and-far technique, lines of three and five, the Grand Tableau, and how Lenormand differs fundamentally from tarot.
Meditation and Visualization for Witches
A thorough guide to meditation and visualization as core magickal skills: why they matter, how to build them systematically, and how to apply them in spellwork, pathworking, and daily practice.
Mirror Scrying: Making and Using a Black Mirror
A complete guide to constructing and consecrating a black mirror for scrying, including the correct posture, candlelight setup, how to interpret what you see, and how to close a session safely.
How to Read a Natal Chart: A Beginner's Tutorial
A step-by-step guide to reading an astrological natal chart for the first time, covering the four building blocks of planets, signs, houses, and aspects, a recommended reading order starting with the luminaries and Ascendant, and how to synthesize individual placements into a coherent whole.
Numerology: How to Calculate and Read a Chart
A complete practical guide to numerology, covering the meanings of numbers 1 through 9 and master numbers 11, 22, and 33, with step-by-step calculations for the Life Path, Expression, and Soul Urge numbers, the Personal Year cycle, and a fully worked sample chart.
Pendulum Dowsing: A Complete Tutorial
A thorough practical guide to pendulum dowsing, from choosing and attuning your pendulum through establishing response signals, asking clear questions, chart and map dowsing, finding lost objects, and honestly addressing the ideomotor effect and how to work with it.
Protection and Warding for the Home
A complete guide to protective magick for the home and the self. Covers the principles of cleansing, warding, and shielding, threshold protection, witch bottles, protective herbs and stones, a full room-by-room warding method, and how to renew wards over time.
Raising and Directing Energy
A thorough guide to what practitioners mean by energy in magickal work, how to sense and build it, and the major methods for raising and directing it effectively. Covers breath, movement, chant, visualisation, the cone of power, grounding, and the differences between solo and group work.
Reading Ogham: A Tutorial
A thorough introduction to ogham as a Celtic tree alphabet and its use in modern divination, covering the feda and their tree associations, making or sourcing a set of staves or cards, single-stave and spread methods, and an honest account of ogham divination as a modern reconstruction.
Rune Casting: An Elder Futhark Tutorial
A thorough, step-by-step guide to working with the 24 Elder Futhark runes, covering how to acquire or make a set, single and multi-rune draws, casting on a cloth, reading by position and proximity, merkstave interpretations, and proper care of your set.
Setting Intentions for Spells
A thorough guide to forming a properly structured magickal intention, from identifying a genuine desire through to a finished intention statement ready for use. Covers framing, specificity, alignment, and a fully worked example for practitioners at any level.
Spell Jars and Charm Bags
This guide covers two of the most versatile forms of container spell, explaining how to build a spell jar and a charm bag step by step, how to choose ingredients by correspondence, and how to maintain and retire these workings respectfully. It is for practitioners who want durable, portable spells that continue working after the rite is complete.
Tarot Reading: A Complete Tutorial
A thorough, practitioner-level guide covering every stage of a tarot reading, from choosing and bonding with a deck through card structure, question formation, spreads, reversals, court cards, timing, and reading for others.
Tarot Spreads: Designing and Using Them
A thorough guide to positional tarot spreads, covering the logic behind spread design, the three-card spread, the Celtic Cross, relationship and year-ahead spreads, and a complete method for designing custom spreads for specific questions.
Tea Leaf Reading: A Tasseography Tutorial
A thorough practical guide to reading tea leaves, from choosing the right cup and loose tea through the swirl-and-invert technique, timing regions of the cup, and interpreting common symbols with confidence.
The Ethics of Magick
This guide examines the major ethical frameworks in witchcraft and magick, from the Wiccan Rede to traditional witchcraft and chaos magick, and explores the real questions practitioners face around consent, love spells, cursing, and personal responsibility. It is for any practitioner willing to think seriously about how they use their craft.
The Solitary Witch
A thorough guide to working as a solitary practitioner, covering the history and legitimacy of solitary practice, the real challenges and genuine advantages of working alone, self-dedication, designing your own curriculum, and finding community on your own terms. Written for witches who practice without a coven and want to do so with depth and confidence.
The Wheel of the Year
This guide covers the eight sabbats of the Wheel of the Year, their honest twentieth-century history, their agricultural and solar logic, and how to begin observing them in practice. It is for anyone curious about the seasonal calendar at the heart of modern Wicca and earth-centred spirituality.
The Witch's Tools
A thorough guide to the traditional tools of the witch, from the athame and wand to the cauldron and besom, covering their history, elemental attributions, and practical use. Written for practitioners at any stage who want to understand what their tools actually do and how to acquire or make them thoughtfully.
Timing Your Magick: Moons, Days, and Hours
A thorough guide to timing magickal workings by the lunar cycle, the days of the week, planetary hours, and the sabbats, explaining the principles behind each system and how to combine them without becoming paralysed by complexity. Written for practitioners who want to work with natural tides rather than against them.
Understanding Your Natal Chart
Your natal chart is a map of the sky at the exact moment of your birth, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets across the zodiac and the twelve astrological houses.
Water Scrying: A Tutorial
A thorough guide to hydromancy, the practice of divination by water, covering the history of the art, bowl and water preparation, ink and oil techniques, moonlight and candlelight methods, the gaze, and outdoor scrying in natural water.
What Are the Akashic Records
The Akashic Records are understood in esoteric traditions as a non-physical repository of every soul's experience across time, accessible through focused intention and used for healing, guidance, and self-understanding.
When Spells Do Not Work
This guide examines the most common reasons a spell appears to fail and gives practitioners honest, specific tools for evaluating, diagnosing, and improving their workings. It is for anyone who has cast a spell with care and seen no result.
Witchcraft and Belief: How Magick Works
A serious essay on the major models for how magick produces results, from the energetic to the psychological to the devotional, with an honest treatment of the relationship between belief, practice, and real-world outcomes. Written for practitioners who want to understand what they are doing and why it works.
Working with Deities
This guide covers what it means to enter a relationship with a deity, from first contact and discernment through devotion, offerings, and the ethics of working with gods from cultures not your own. It is written for practitioners at any stage who are ready to move their practice into the devotional dimension.
Working with the Four Elements
This guide explores the four classical elements, earth, air, fire, and water, along with spirit as the fifth, examining their qualities, correspondences, and practical applications in ritual and spellwork. It is for practitioners who want to move beyond rote correspondence lists into genuine elemental relationship.
Working with the Moon Phases
This guide covers the lunar cycle as the most accessible magickal calendar a practitioner has, explaining what each phase supports, how to work with full moons and esbats, moon water, the void-of-course moon, and how to build a sustainable monthly lunar practice.
Writing Your Own Spells
A complete guide to constructing original spells from purpose through to a tested and recorded rite, covering correspondences, structure, spoken words, and revision. Written for practitioners ready to move beyond borrowed spells into genuine creative craft.