Table of Contents
Ah! Sunflower William Blakef 7
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 8
News from The Witches' Almanac 13
Glad tidings from the staff 13
Stone Spelling 14
Delving Deeply into the Greek Alphabet Oracle
Railroad Spikes & Magic 18
Goddess of no Escape 20
Bridging the Worlds with Music 22
Intention, Attention, and Story-Telling 27
Notes Toward a General Theory of Magic, Part IV
Andersen's Fairy Tale 33
The Darning-Needle
The Cult of Birthstones 36
The An of Magic 40
Excerpt from: What We Knew in the Night
Moon Gardening 46
The Moon Calendar 42
The Geomantic Figures 50
Amissio
Notable Quotations 52
Stone
Tarot's The Moon 54
Celtic Tree-Reed 58
Elder
Kitchen Magic 60
Bean Fritters
Victorian Slang 64
Year of the Metal Rat 66
Talisman 68
Senbazuru: One Thousand Origami Cranes
The Lancashire Witches 70
William Harrison Ainsworth
Legends of the Fairy Cross 72
The Power of the Shadow 74
Connecting with the Spirits of Place 77
2019 Sunrise and Sunset Times 80
Providence, San Francisco, Sydney, London
The Hawk 48
William Butler Yeats
Window on the Weather 81
Domino Divination 86
Embodying a God-Form 90
Holey Stones 93
Hekate and the Twin Torches 96
The Hardanger Fiddle 98
Lodestones 100
Nature's Secret Magic 103
The Food of the Gods 106
Making offerings to the Orisá of Yorubaland
The Mysteries & Myths of Moldavite 112
Witches, Bitches, Twitches 114
Bones and Other Animal Remains in Pagan Practice 119
Merry Meetings 123
An interview with Selena Fox
The Magic of Seashells & Fossils 129
Witch Windows 132
Hocking Hills: A Legend in Stone 134
Unexpected and Spectacular Rock Formations in Ohio
The Fixed Stars 136
Algol
The Blinking Eye of Medusa
Saying Witch in European Languages 138
An Astrological Overview 140
Stephen Hawking-Looking Through Millions of Tiny Black Holes at the Theory of Everything
Celestial Powers 145
Lightning Gods, Bolts from the Blue
The Beasts of Borges 148
Aesop's Fable 151
The Heron
Lead Curse Tables 152
Moon Cycles 156
Presage 157
Presage 157
Astrological Keys 158
Eclipses and Retrogrades 159
Aries 160
Taurus 162
Gemini 164
Cancer 166
Leo 168
Virgo 170
Libra 172
Scorpio 174
Sagittarius 176
Capricorn 178
Aquarius 180
Pisces 182
Sites of Awe 184
The White Welt of Glastonbury
Reviews 187
From a Witch's Mailbox 191