Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Emma Kathryn, author of Witch Life and the new Season Songs. When you think of spirit work, what's the first thing that comes to mind? If I were a betting woman, I'd wager that the spirits of the dead top the list, or thereabouts. But as an animist, I believe that nature and the land itself is imbued with spirit, is alive with the stuff in fact, and just as we can connect with and work with the spirits of our beloved dead, so, too, can we connect with nature spirits and the genius loci to enhance our witchcraft practices. This ritual is a great way to begin to form those all important relationships with the spirits of the land where you