Seven Ways to Celebrate the Witches Holiday Imbolc this Week

January 29, 2019 No Comments

In Pagan traditions there are eight special holidays, or Sabbats, that are celebrated throughout the year. While still honored by modern witches and Pagans, the Sabbats are also a great way for non-practitioners to celebrate the season and connect to nature on a deep level. The next upcoming sabbat falls on February 1st and is called Imbolc. A Gaelic festival celebrating the beginning of spring, Imbolc has since been translated into variations like Groundhogs Day and Candlemas. In the name of inspiring and uniting witches everywhere (and opening the conversation for those who might be witch-curious) here are seven simple ways […]

Kitchen Witch

New Years Energy Clearing Ritual & Herbal Floor Wash {Recipe}

January 1, 2019 No Comments

Happy New Year to you and yours! I hope your transition in to 2019 has been gentle and exciting. New Orleans is an especially festive city, so we’ve been celebrating a little extra. As fun as all the parties, parades and fireworks can be – I especially love this time for clearing, centering, cleaning and getting everything ready for a fresh new year. I love to incorporate my magickal practice when I clean. While on the surface it might look like simple tidying up, it also opens up so much space for me to relax, manifest and welcome more awesomeness in […]

Being your Best, Holistic Care

Five Easy Ways to Conquer Holiday Stress

December 14, 2018 No Comments

Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas, Blessed Yule, Happy Hanukkah – joy abounds! Wherever and whatever you are celebrating in the world during this time, I wish you peace and love. As relaxing as holidays claim to be, they often cause lots of unnecessary stress and grief. Traffic, traveling, finding the “perfect” gift, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. Stress is a tricky thing. It seems easy to accumulate but so hard to get rid of. It can pop up out of nowhere and snowball into total havoc if we let it. If you feel bouts of stress creeping in and tainting […]

Sabbats, Witchy

A Witchy Playlist for an Epic Samhain

October 5, 2018 No Comments

We celebrate the witches’ New Year on October 31st Samhain, Halloween, or All Hallow’s Eve – whatever name your tradition calls for – is time to put all to rest. Samhain acts as the end of the calendar year for many ancient cultures. This is the time of year when all the fields had been tended, the herds were drawn inside and everything else was left outside for Mother Earth. It is the role of death in the life and rebirth cycle. It is the crone in the triple goddess entity. It is a time of tying up loose ends […]

Sabbats

A Fall Equinox Playlist Perfect for Magick Making

September 1, 2018 No Comments

September brings Mabon blessings upon us. This Fall equinox means the lengthening of night, a procession into stillness, and a time to rest and respect all that Mother Gaia has brought to us. As the elements of light and dark being to balance in our external world, so does the aspect of equality begin to come forward on a subtler level. How are you balancing work and play? Are you taking time for stillness, or are you caught in an ever-turning vortex of activity? Traditionally a time of celebrating Celtic harvest queens and feasts of Avalon, Mabon is a time […]

Holistic Care

DIY All-Natural Bug Repellent Spray

July 20, 2018 No Comments

It’s tempting to reach for a bottle of powerful store-bought repellent, but they’re loaded with chemicals that are toxic to the environment and yourself. If you’re trying to keep to pests at bay – but in a natural way – try making this all-natural insect repellent.

Featured, Yoga

A Beginner’s Guide to Yoga in New Orleans

May 22, 2018 No Comments

If you’re looking for quality chaturangas and down-dogs while you’re staying in the Big Easy you don’t have to go far. Yoga in New Orleans is blossoming. Traveling community groups and neighborhood studios offer fun and fresh classes every day of the week.

Holistic Care

Beat the Winter Blues with these Five Essential Oils

February 16, 2018 No Comments

If waiting for the coming warmer days seems unbearable, have no fear, the herbalists are here! Fight off a variety of wintertime ailments with these simple essential oil recipes.

Travel

Goodbye, London

July 4, 2015 No Comments

My time in London has come to an end, and I’m not sure it’s set in yet. When you look forward to something for so long, you don’t believe it when it finally comes to an end. Life in London was far beyond anything I ever imagined. I remember the first day we got here, anxious and jet-lagged, we stumbled down Hammersmith Road in search of caffeine. The different currencies, the accents, the “you alright?”: it all seemed so foreign. How the hell were we going to survive for 8 weeks in this huge city? It took some getting use to, but […]

Travel

Pride Week in London

June 28, 2015 No Comments

I feel like I don’t have words to describe how amazing these past few days have been. That hurts me to admit as a writer, but the sentiments behind it are well worth my wounded pride. I was sitting in class in Russell Square when I got a news notification on my phone from The Guardian. It was relaying the news that thousands of miles away, in my home country, the Supreme Court had just legalized gay marriage in all 50 states. Thankfully I was in a class with 20 other journalism nerds, meaning we all got news notifications from our various […]