 “I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it” – Edgar Allan Poe As April Fool’s Day descends, you can fall into one of two categories. The Fool, or the Non-Fool. If you wish to be thought so little of a fool that nobody would try to fool you for a second,…
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The Divine Fool: Zero & Hero
The Fool is many things and none. The Fool is the jester, the joker, the trickster, the clown, the simpleton, the naĂŻf, the hero. The first card in the tarot deck, the Fool’s number is zero. A blank slate.
Magic Eggs
“Long long ago before time had begun, the moon lost a pebble and away through space it spun, in the world far below only water could be seen, it sank down to the bottom and it lay there like a dream… Magic Egg….Rejected by the devil and circled by a dove, the message inside was…
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
As the festival of Ostara approaches, let us consider the Easter Bunny. He’s a funny old stick. Represented in early folk culture as a stern old-timey Germanic Easter hare or Osterhase, he would judge people annually to deem them worthy or not of his colourful bounty of eggs – not unlike Santa Claus at Christmas….
The Witch and the Silver Cup: “Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”
You may have heard about a little film called The Witch that generated a lot of positive buzz out of Sundance last year and is now playing in theaters. Â If not, here is the trailer: The film is being billed as horror, and it does have some horror elements, but it will disappoint those in…
Shoot a Flaming Dragon Bomb
The Chinese Dragon is the highest-ranking creature in the Chinese god/animal hierarchy, representing power, majesty, dignity, fertility and wisdom. When he makes his appearance in effigy during Chinese New Year, he symbolizes the spiritual aspect of our existence and brings good fortune to all aspects of our lives. Â To celebrate the dragon at this time…
Drown your sorrows & fly away with the Green Fairy
For some people, Valentine’s Day is a happy day of fun and romance, when you cheerfully overpay for food and drink and circulate photographs of delivered flowers, cards and gifts on social media with hashtags like #truelove #happy #spoilt or #smug. There you sit, in your bowl of cherries covered with chocolate-coated rose petals taking…
The Two of Cups: A Love Spell Cocktail and Truffles for Valentine’s Day
As Valentine’s Day draws near, our thoughts turn to love, romance and flowers.  The Two of Cups is the tarot card that represents an ideal relationship between two people where there is balance, respect and genuine love. Parfait Amour (“perfect love” in French) is a violet-hued liqueur that tastes like a Victorian love potion combining the essences…
Speak on, sweet groundhog…
He has emerged from his burrow up on Gobbler’s Knob, and as there is no sign of his shadow, has decided to stay out and toast Imbolc with a refreshing cocktail. Spring is here!
Monsters Under the Bed
The fear of something nasty under our beds or hiding in our cupboards is a primal fear most of us suffer from as children, and oftentimes into adulthood. Most of us are jumping at shadows, but if you live in South Africa, there is a very real possibility that you may find something there in…
The New City Witches Cocktail Coven 