I attended the Sacred Space Conference this year. This was my first time, and the first time I attended a multiday witch gathering. The Sacred Space Conference is held for intermediate and advanced practitioners and it hosts a variety of authors and educators of the pagan, esoteric, witchcraft community. Over the next couple weeks, I will be sharing my experiences in a Sacred Space Series. Random photo of the conference room floor that had patters similar to how I envision di

Mama Susquehanna To celebrate the Spring Equinox this year, I joined Elyse Welles of Seeking Numina and three other wonderful people on the banks of the Susquehanna in Havre de Grace, MD. I have been processing the experience for several days now and would love to share my thoughts. It was a deep transformative experience. Wye Oak at the Lock House We met at the Lock House under a nearby wye oak tree, which had been a sapling from one of the oldest wye oak trees

A coven is a gathering of witches who practice their craft together, typically to celebrate the Wheel of the Year, Full Moons, and other group rituals or magical workings. As I have mentioned before in my post about creating sacred space, a coven can come together to build a sacred space for their meeting. Often there is a designated leader of the group. There are many who seek out covens to train and work with and others who create covens of their own. I wasn’t i

A xylophone with five mallets hitting individual notes creating a chord "What conditions are best for creating synergy in a group?" from 'Dark Mirror: The Inner Work of Witchcraft' by Yvonne Aburrow Synergy is defined as the combined power of a group of things when they are working together that is greater than the total power achieved by each working separately, per the Cambridge Dictionary. I have been trained to build group synergy in my music therapy clinical training an