by Raechel Henderson | Apr 10, 2025 | musings
I started my Temperance year* today. It is a “highly creative year.” A “year of assimilation, integration and stability; a year of desiring balance, beauty and harmony.” It is also a “year where one is actively involved in some major...
by Raechel Henderson | Sep 27, 2024 | musings
I have come to see much of my crafting as self-care. When I am feeling overwhelmed by the world around me I can retreat into the therapy of making things. My hands are engaged, as well as my creative brain, which leaves my subconscious free to work through all the...
by Raechel Henderson | Sep 19, 2024 | musings
Mabon is the second of three harvest festivals on the wheel of the year. It lands between Lammas and Samhain and celebrates the Autumnal equinox on September 22. Mabon’s energy is all about preparedness. Winter is coming, and we need to ensure we have enough of...
by Raechel Henderson | Sep 10, 2024 | musings
Spring cleaning is about clearing out stagnant energy. Fall cleaning is about carefully picking through the contents of your life to find what to keep and what to pitch. It is for opening your closet doors and laying all your clothes on the bed, for pulling out...
by Raechel Henderson | Aug 29, 2024 | musings
I’ve always foraged for my witchcraft. Even when I was a child, and I felt magic inside myself but didn’t know what to call it. My grandmother had a large garden bordered by currant bushes. It had a tiny orchard with elderberry, cherry and plum trees. In...
by Raechel Henderson | Jun 7, 2024 | musings
My go to tarot deck has been the Herbal Tarot. It was my first deck, bought from a Barnes & Noble more than twenty years ago. Since then, I have collected more tarot decks, buying or being gifted them. But I haven’t used them. I might flip through them on...
