Sex! Now that I have your attention, we can explore the festival of Floralia, which is held between April 28th and May 3rd, symbolizing the renewal of the cycle of life, and kicking off our Beltane celebrations. It is celebrated with flowers, drinking, hunting, games, and sex. See, it didn’t take me long to get…
Category: holidays
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 naïf, the hero. The first card in the tarot deck, the Fool’s number is zero. A blank slate.
The Golden Lamb AKA The Sweetest Sacrifice
This Easter holiday when making your ritual offering to the gods of Spring, why not create a golden lamb in effigy, and eat it? I’m sure the deities involved would be pleased with this sweet sacrifice. Eating a lamb cake is perfectly in line with the traditional method of distributing edible portions of sacrificial animals…
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….
Ultra Violence with Ultra Violets
As I stand packed in with a throng of folk whose average age is 65-70, mixed flowers are being thrown madly in all directions. A Gallic rave remix of popular tunes (Le Lapin Jive?) is blasting over a powerful sound system, a light icy drizzle is falling and everybody’s blood is up. A carnation hits…
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!
Celebrate Imbolc with Snowmelt Milk Punch
Imbolc is celebrated at the beginning of February, marking the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. The word “imbolc” is believed to mean “ewe’s milk” as this is the time of year when the sheep were giving birth and producing milk, the first stirrings of new life in the midst of winter,…
The New City Witches Cocktail Coven 