Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Diana Rajchel, author of several books, including Urban Magick and the new Hex Twisting. Somewhere, somehow, early in my practice, I got the idea that practicing magic was rare. Perhaps, where I lived, that was true. All the books I read focused exclusively on a specific type of Pagan witchcraft, European-centered in values, concerns, and privilege. Things like cursing, based on what those authors said, didn't happen. In the 25 years that followed all this knowledge absorption, here's what I unlearned: Magic is rare. It;s not. It's everywhere, in every culture, between the codes of every religion, in people that don't even realize

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ann J. Clark, author of the new Healing from Great Loss. Losing a loved one is one of life's most difficult experiences. I lost my daughter, my only child, unexpectedly several years ago. I call this kind of loss "great loss," because it hurts so much worse and is so much harder to move beyond than other losses that we may have experienced. Such a great loss is life-changing, but what that change turns out to be is up to us. One of the keys to creating a positive future after great loss can be found in defining moments. Defining moments spell out who we choose to be after we have lost someone or something that gives meaning to our lives

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Frater Barrabbas, author of several books, including the new Elemental Powers for Witches. In my newly published book, Elemental Powers for Witches, I define what a Pagan Magus is in our current age. This is a person who has advanced Witchcraft magic to include spirit conjuration, elemental energy workings, and talismanic magic. While the art of spirit conjuration has a place in the provenance of Witchcraft magic, the other two methodologies are actually part of two other threads from antiquity—that of philosophy and its arts, and astrology and celestial magic. These two threads were revived in our current age and represent the modern

The Llewellyn Virtual Author Forum is a bi-monthly series of free online roundtable events that feature your favorite Llewellyn authors discussing topics important to you and answering your questions. Our seventh in the series, on Food Magick: Spells & Recipes for the Yule Season, featured The Magick of Food author Gwion Raven, Kitchen Witchery author Laurel Woodward, The Scent of Lemon and Rosemary author Raechel Henderson, and Ozark Folk Magic author Brandon Weston Did you miss the live event? No worries! Stream it here.