Leanne Margaret

There are various ways to experience Easter. For some it's a holiday and time with friends and family. For some it's a deeply meaningful time for spiritual ceremony. But for everyone, this time of year is a seasonal festival. All over the world people are experiencing the change of the seasons. The in-between seasons, either from summer to winter, or from winter to summer (or their equatorial equivalent). My sauce & some random tomatoes Parallel with the traditions people follow, we are all subject to the changing moods of the seasons. Aside from winter sport enthusiasts, many people instinctively withdraw their energy in winter, I know I do. Like a bear in a cave, it's hard to get me out of the house during the colder months. Whether or not we are conscious of it, we are all affected by the relinquishing of autumn and the growth cycle of spring. Inexorably, nature flows through us, connecting us to people and planet. Our own personal energies expand and contra

Hi All 😀 As we make our descent toward the colder seasons I'm aware that part of me is looking forward to more time indoors being creative. I usually dread the cold of winter, but this year life is looking brighter. Creatively, there's a lot to do and it's getting easier to do it.  I'm better able to leave the past behind me and get on with my days. During the summer just gone I even managed to balance a term of dance classes with my writing life. Bellydance Classes Thursday night dance class has been a personal tradition since my early dance class days. It's a life affirming practice that helps to undo the hours spent sitting at computer and notebook. Majickal Bellydance is more than exercise, it's like a moving meditation. The benefits are spiritual as well as physical and mental. I'll be teaching a new term of classes at Seville Community house from April 19. Details HERE . On the topic of life balance: Due to anxiety and PTSD, I have had to

This isn't the usual love spell. Like many majickal people, I have experienced the enduring ties that can be created when we perform unethical spells. That is - spells involving another person. You might be thinking, "what? No spells involving others? How can a love spell happen without others?" Consent It's all about consent. It's not appropriate to join with another person without their consent, even on spiritual planes. There has to be another way to do our love majick. The Source of Love Love majick begins with you, the source of love in your life. Personal love majick seeks to expand the love within you. In this way you can build your reserves of love and life-affirming energy; the kind of energy that is attractive to others. If you love you, someone else surely can. Feeling the Love Feeling the love means generating feelings of love from within. It means not only finding what you love about yourself, but also your life and the people, places a

New page, new book. Every writer LOVES opening a brand new notebook. It's so rewarding that many of us even smell the pages! Although I didn't sniff this one, I cracked open the first page with a big smile. 😃 It's exciting to use a brand new clean book that doesn't have multiple scraps of paper stapled and sticky-taped into it. I've been a little lax of late, so it seems like a good time to review the way I write my blog posts. 1. Economy After having written two books and multiple blog posts and workshops, I have discovered a thing I call 'word burnout.' This means I have a word limit, both speaking, writing and listening. So as I approach writing a brand new book, I want to funnel most of my writing time into that. My weekend blog post needs to be shorter and less time intensive than previous posts. 2. Clarity Keeping it short means focussing more sharply on a single idea or suggestion. I would like to stop trying to say SO MUCH in each p

Glamour majick is one of the most common forms of majick. Make-up, hairstyles, clothing and costumes are the main ingredients of glamour majick, all empowered by poise and attitude. You may recall the movie The Craft , where glamour majick is used to create results as extreme as a total change of hair colour and sudden skin cure. But in reality it's more like hair dye and lotion. But witchcraft can be more elaborate. When I attended witchcraft class we performed a group glamour majick ceremony. We all brought an item to charge with majickal intent. Many brought make-up, particularly lipstick. I brought a powder compact. There was only one man in the group. He performed the role of recipient as the women danced and flirted around him, dressed up to the nines and clutching our item of glamour. Using the item in every day life brought a little bit of the majick from that ceremony wherever needed. The key, like all majickal work, is the intent. The positive mental images and enco