Artist Trading Cards (February 2026)

I taught an ATC class for a few friends this weekend and made two sets of my own: The Michigan cards have cherries (famous product of Traverse City), deer (state game animal), cherry blossoms (state floser), and robins (state bird) along with pieces of an outdated Michigan map. I realized

Charm Casting Part 7: Casting and Narrowing Down

Once you've made your preparations, the next step is to select the charms for the reading. You can: * Deliberately pick charms with meanings that are useful for the question or subject * Randomly select a certain amount of charms * Have your querent randomly select a certain amount of charms

Charm Casting Part 6: Preparing for a Reading

Apologies for the delay - I was planning to combine this part with performing a reading, the performing section is getting an overhaul from my old class notes, and it was a big enough undertaking that I didn't feel I had the spoons. But I don't

Bluesky

If any of my Bluesky peeps are wondering why I'm not posting this weekend, I tried to migrate to Northsky and it's stuck. My account deactivated and I can't get through the next step so the migrator will finish and reactivate it. The Northsky

Color Magic Revisited - Going Deeper

I was just introduced to Colour Cubes, which are decks of cards with a color palette on each one. This got me thinking: I know what individual colors mean to me, but does that change in any way when it's a set of colors? More research is needed,

Recommended Reading

The charm casting posts will continue soon, but in the meantime, I was reminded yesterday that I have a short list of books to kickstart a new witch's practice if they want to do something similar to what I do. To be clear: I do a lot of

Knitting Tip: Better Striped Edges

I may not normally write about knitting, but I enjoy it and I want to share a technique I figured out by myself. This is good for when you're transitioning between one color to another, each color is on a different row, and the first color ends with

Charm Casting Part 5: Dedicating Your Kit

Dedicating or consecrating your charm casting kit is an optional step. I'm not going to provide a ritual, but I'll say that you should consider whether you want to consecrate each separate piece going into your kit, or consecrate the container in a way that means

Charm Casting Part 4: Other Handy Supplies

There are a few things handy to have for charm casting, besides what I've already covered. First: charm storage. If you separate all of your charms into groups, I recommend wedding favor tins. They're small, cheap, and light, and you can find them on Amazon or

Charm Casting: Part 3 - Making and Finding Maps

There are some premade maps out there - Xia Hunt has a few and Etsy of course will provide - but you can make your own for even more customization goodness, or use things you already have. A good map has divisions by subject/theme, time, or another factor that

Charm Casting: Part 2 - Choosing Charms

In hindsight, this is a big enough topic that I'll put the rest of my information about supplies in one or more subsequent posts! How many charms should you have for a charm casting set? You can get started with maybe a dozen, and you can expand into

Charm Casting: Part 1 - What is it and why do it?

This series of posts is largely based on a class I taught at Ann Arbor Pagan Pride Day 2024. I'll expand on how to interpret a casting from what was presented at the time. Charm casting is a form of divination in which small objects (charms) are dropped

Color Dice: Part 5 - Experiences

(If you don't see a Part 4, it's because that part is for subscribers only!) For a long time, I had only 13 colors in my system and viewed them largely in terms of the energy centers I associated with them. Next, I created charm casting

Color Dice: Part 4 - My Color System

Color Dice: Part 3 - The Dice

I decided to use a base 10 numerology system, so I use d10s. I looked at several systems: * The one James R. Eads used for The Cerulean Sequence, which is the one I finally went with * The one in The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky * The one in 54

Color Dice: Part 2 - Building a System

Since my color system is based on my personal associations and my energy body, I'd be surprised if it clicked in the same way for others. Not to mention that other things may be more meaningful than colors to another witch - maybe shapes, musical tones, textures, or

Color Dice: Part 1 - Introduction

In 2007 or 2008, I developed a color magic system that I intended to use both in real life and in stories I planned to write. The stories are still on hold because some stories end up being more complicated than you expect. But I did end up using the

A Softer World Volumes 1 & 3

A Softer World is an art journaling class taught by Effy Wild - see https://learn.effywild.com/ for details. We're three volumes in so far; lessons are released monthly but some of us aren't calling them "month one" etc because there is no

Welcome!

I've tried other platforms and I've considered other possibilities, but it feels like Ghost is the right thing. I don't have anything specific prepared for publication right now although I have multiple ideas in the pipeline, as usual. If you don't already