Saturn & Dark Spirits of the Crossroads

I’ve been reading John Frawley’s The Real Astrology in order to start learning about traditional astrology. I think a knowledge of this discipline would dovetail nicely with my planetary approach to magic and interest in herbs (Culpeper comes to mind). Traditional astrology is pre-psychology, so it’s not used for investigating the psyche but for various [...]

Hekate in the garden & the kitchen

I’m very fond of garlic and planted about five hardneck varieties last fall in my neighbor’s plot (the variety New York White performed best, which I guess is to be expected in NY, lol!). This summer, I harvested them. I chose the largest 24 heads of garlic to try a pickle recipe on. I decided [...]