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…
Giving Parties For Pets
Since the Early Times, familiar creatures were accepted as quasi-supernatural entities who would assist witches and the Cunning Folk in their magical practices. Documents of that era described them as appearing in numerous guises – usually as an animal, and most commonly as a cat, or cat-demon. Unlike ghosts or otherworldly spirits, they were described…
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…
Predicting Possibilities With Pancakes
Mix a pancake, stir the pancake Pop it in the pan Fry the pancake, toss the pancake Catch it if you can See the pancake, what shape does it make? Gaze into the pan Show us, pancake, what is our fate? Speak! all-knowing flan.
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…
A Dark and Lovely Stormy
A few years ago, I was invited to the birthday party of a dear friend who just happens to be a lesbian. Not just your average lesbian mind you; she’s a very well-known, socially involved, power lesbian. We share one friend and I would know only a handful of people there, so our mutual friend was…
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,…
It’s Lucky you’re so Charming
Whether you put your trust in a forked avian bone formed by the fusion of clavicles, a U-shaped item of iron that has been nailed to the hoof of an equine mammal, the severed limb of a long-eared, short-tailed burrowing Leporidae, a mutated example of a plant of the genus Trifolium, a feline with high…
The New City Witches Cocktail Coven 