If you keep your eyes peeled, you can find examples of everyday transcendence from our physical reality on a street corner, down an alleyway, or through a door left open which has previously to now, always been found closed. Â By instinct we are drawn to examples of sympathetic magic, where objects found or created form…
“Don’t be a sheep” this Elder Moon – Making an Elderflower Old-Fashioned
I used to say that he’d outlive us all. My father-in-law was a ballsy guy. He knew just what to say to break down barriers, and make friends of enemies. And his humour could reach anyone. He lied about his age so that the army would let him fight in Korea. But it didn’t take…
Black Magic, or Supper at the Crossroads
November 16th is the Night of Hecate, which begins at sunset. Her ability to see into the Underworld, or the “Otherwhere” of the sleeping and the dead makes her sympathetic to those who would generally be shunned out of fear and misunderstanding.  Other gods or goddesses might not feel at home roaming city streets at…
Supermoon lucky horoscopes for you
As we all take to the rooftops tonight, gazing anxiously through the clouds to see the supermoon at its closest point to the Earth in 69 years, what will be going through your mind? Will it be the question of the windchill factor up there? or whether the silvery rays of light will help you…
The SĂ©ance
The word “sĂ©ance” has come to be most associated with a group of people gathering and sitting to attempt to contact spirits, either loved ones who have passed away, or other entities who roam the alternative planes of reality. These entities are generally held to comprise of remnants of the ancient gods and pagan spirits….
Out Of Your Skull
Won’t somebody think of the worms? Time was, a worm in a bottle of tequila was all the rage, everybody loved the tequila worms. They proved it was all natural and made of agave plant, not something brewed up in a lab. Some said they were aphrodisiacs. Some said they were hallucinogenic. Agave farms needed…
Beer – here? A Lagerita for Oktoberfest
Although we generally lean towards arcane cocktails of subtle and complex composition on this site, we admit that there is a time and place for beer. Â The ideal time and place is Oktoberfest in Germany. Beginning as a celebration for the wedding of Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1810, this has grown into a worldwide…
Liquid Poe-try: The Tell-Tale Heart
I recently had the pleasure of visiting a surprising (to me, at least)Â NYC historic treasure, Poe Cottage in the Bronx, Edgar Allan Poe’s last residence. Â While I had known that Poe had perished in Baltimore, I was unaware that he called the Bronx home for the last three years of his life. Â He wrote several…
Embrace your Inner Lunatic – Making Moonwater
“She wants you to get pregnant”, my friend said with a smirk when I told her my mother gave me a bottle of moon water. The moon is good for women, governing everything from the tides to our very emotions, and especially good for witches. Â The bottle my mother gave me looked like a…
The Time of the Singing Moon
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel – Mabon is here again, a time when light and dark balance before the winter draws in. The late harvest festival, it coincides with the Chinese Moon festival or the Time of the Singing Moon.  To celebrate Mabon at home, you should gather…
The New City Witches Cocktail Coven 