Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Mat Auryn, author of the bestselling Psychic Witch and the new Mastering Magick. In my book Mastering Magick: A Course in Spellcasting for the Psychic Witch, one of my main motives was to share aspects of spellcasting that are often overlooked that I wish I knew when I first started engaging in magick. A lot of these insights are incredibly simple and cost nothing; the price of admission is simply your attention, energy, sincerity, and time. Here are four simple examples of ways you can enhance your spells when you're casting them to ensure that you're properly connecting with the energy of the spell and thereby enhancing the potency of its

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ailynn Halvorson, author of the new Tarot Apothecary. Autumn is my favorite time of year. I love the cooler temperatures; the rain; a fireplace; sweaters; and comfy moments sitting on the couch with hot tea, a book, and a blanket. As the days grow shorter, we start to send our energies inward, both mentally and physically. Twilight is especially magical this time of year with the darker evenings that allow you to step into a kind of mystical world, where the trees look like large shadow guardians and the evening feels like you could just reach through the air into another coexisting realm. It is as if your ancestors are within reach—all

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Lisa McSherry, author of the new Witch's Guide to Crafting Your Practice. Witches have long been associated with the Moon in history and lore. It's easy to see why, as the Moon is the primary symbol of the Goddess. Its progress through the sky, ever-changing as it moves graciously through its phases echoing the cycle of life itself, creates a sense of wonder in us. Casting our eyes on the world around us, we see that lots of things within nature are timed around the phases of the Moon. There are the tides that her presence causes (helping provide a cleansing of the seashores and provide a host of creatures with a renewing habitat), and

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Durgadas Allon Duriel, author of The Little Work: Magic to Transform Your Everyday Life and the new Worthy As You Are. Though affirmations are often associated with spirituality, their power is also evident in psychotherapeutic settings. One of the most popular methods of psychotherapy today, cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on the fact that how we think influences how we feel and perceive reality. Affirmations harness this fact by attempting to influence our perception of reality through shifting how we think. To help build motivation for affirming, it can be beneficial to consider the ways affirmations can aid us, across how we