A Hallows Invocation

  A Hallows Invocation

Forests misty, dark and deep,

the door between the worlds release

loved ones, family, favored pets

to join me in this evening’s fest.

The birth of new, the death of old,

I will this cycle to unfold.

Each leaf that drifts upon the ground

will bury all that is unsound

and in its place will rise anew

the gift of love the whole year through.

With the harvest gold and autumn sun

I reap the best that I have done.

And as the days grow shorter still

with long nights and winters chill

I'll work to build a better place

for every soul and human race.

Wild autumns wind, and crone's dark voice

speak to me of wisdoms choice

let me hear your words of fate

so I know which path to take!

Those of you who went before

speak to me from crossroads door

whisper words of love and care

let me know that you are there.

- author unknown -

Blessings dark and deep!

Everlasting

 

Everlasting

Wind blows softly. 

Can you feel me?

Waves wash onto the shore. Can you hear me?

I am everlasting and always with you,

I hold you close as you sleep.

I am the rain that washes the tears that you weep,

I am everlasting and always with you,

I am the sun that warms this land,

I am the strength when you are too weak to stand,

I am everlasting and always with you,

I am the dream you hold in your heart,

I am close though we are far apart,

If you cannot find me, look to the moon,

I wait for you, love, to be with you soon.

I am everlasting and always with you.

- Pen Parker -

Blessings dark and deep!

Invocation of the Triple Goddess

 

 

Invocation of the Triple Goddesses

By the owl and threefold track,

There is no want, there is no lack.

In Hawthorn thicket, softly glowing,

I come to honor all aknowing.

Bright One of the Waxing Tides, 

Standing at the Mother’s side,

Bright Moon Maiden to you I sing,

White Owl Maiden Your light bring.

Come now Maiden join me here,

Come now Maiden, come appear.

By the Oak and by the stone,

I the Ancient One have known.

My Full Moon Mother I here invoke,

By Sacred Water and drifting smoke.

Mother of Moon, Mother of Earth,

Mother of Night, She who gives birth

To the Full Moon and the wondrous world,

Whose tracks mark the hosts of heaven unfurled.

Come to me Mother, bless my rite,

Come now Mother, free my sight.

By the rock and by the crow,

I live my life by ancient flow.

Through spirit path, triple spiraled,

Comes the Dark Moon’s ancient herald.

Old One of the Waning Tides,

Of black feathered cloak at the Mother’s side.

I call the Old One of triple might,

I call the Old One of infinite sight.

Let the Old One my call hear,

Let the Old One now appear.

They have no beginning, They have no end,

They are the Water, Earth, Fire, and Wind.

I call by Earth Their bodies divine,

I call by Water, Their most holy sign, 

I call by Air to come and be here,

To cleanse my spirit and banish all fear.

I call by Fire, Their passion reigns here.

Their holy magick makes all at last clear.

Let the Three know my name,

To Them a daughter I remain.

Let the Three know my vow,

Let the Three be with me now!

- EA Kaufman, 2026 -

I cobbled this together after re-reading A Ring Around the Moon by Nigel G Pearson. He shares a number of rites and rituals. This invocation is created from various parts of three separate rituals, one for each of the triple goddesses. I did take some poetic license here and there to make one invocation. The book has wonderful and inspiring rites. 

Blessings dark and deep!

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It’s October, Witches!

 

It’s October, my dear witches! There’s something about this time of year, I know you feel it too. How I wish I could live in October! Well, maybe not always, every season has its beauty, its celebrations… but still, there is definitely something about October.

Enjoy it while it lasts. Savor every day. Make magick, dress in black and orange, make comforting casseroles, soups, and stews. Brews some Fire Cider and Elderberry Syrup. Be sure to bake and make cinnamon and clove simmer pots. Fill your cottage (house, apartment, motor hom) with the scents and sights, the feelings of October

Oh, and don’t forget your daily devotions to the dark goddesses, it is their season, after all. Honor the crones and elder wise women. Honor yourself and your journey, you path. Count your blessings even if you think there are only a few, there are more than you know.

Blessings dark and deep!

Acknowledge & Release Spell

 I found this spell on Facebook, it doesn’t give anything but a chant. I like the chant and thought, yes, this could be very helpful for releasing. So I added a black candle, because a black candle is always a good addition in this type of work. 

I focused on what needed releasing, really thought about it and spent some time with it. Then I lit my candle and chanted this three times. 

Perhaps you have something that needs releasing in order to heal yourself? Join me.

Blessings dark and light!

Amulet of Protection For Home & Family

Needfuls:
Hair from all household members and pets who live in your home.
soil from outside your home,

Blessed salt
Agrimony, Solomon’s Seal, Rosemary
(to protect, ward off evil, uncross)
Passion Flower (blessings)
a bit of Pyrite, Black Tourmaline, and Garnet
Orange oil and cinnamon,
Small amulet bottle with cork or pouch
red candle to seal, red cord or yarn
To Enchant Herbs & Stones

Hold your hands over the herbs and stones directing energy into them. Chant 3 times:

By Earth and Sun and Rain that falls,
These herbs now awaken, 
to protect us all.
Blessings abound from all around.
So mote it be, we make it bound!

To Enchant Amulet
Place all items in the jar, hold it in your hands and chant 3 times:

Amulet small, amulet round,
We bring all together to make it bound.
Protection and blessings 
and all that is good,
To me and mine belongs as it should.

Seal with red wax, tie on red cord and 
make nine knots. Hang in the home over your door.
c 2019: E A Kaufman, The Witch of  Stitches

Monday Moonday Mushroom Oracle

 Monday Moonday Mushroom Oracle: 

16: Amanita, Expanded Awareness.

My spirit mushroom showed itself today, and it’s very appropriate. At this time of year, there is a great deal of spirit energy around, that veil is still so thin, so our consciousness is… or should be, raised to a higher level. It’s less about the physical and more about our spiritual awareness. Letting go and allowing ourselves to be free of restriction of the norm, we need to see things in a different way. This spiritually active time has much to give us. Who or what may be trying to reach us? Where are we going on our spiritual paths, where do we need to go? There is a great deal of information and energy around to assist us. There are ways of being and becoming that no longer are needed and we can now easily shed them, moving into a change in spiritual practice, our magickal path, healing work, ehatever or all. What has been in the back of our minds, where we wish to go and what we want to do, while handled with care, will get us where we need to be with a new or different way of practicing. 

Blessings dark and deep!

#divination #oraclereading #priestesspath #witchlife

Winter Magick Day 20

 I Call You, Winter Goddesses

I call You, all Winter Goddesses, 

of ice and snow and cold winds,

of long, dark nights, and short days.

I call all of You to bear witness to my Art.

Persephone of the World Below, I invoke you.

I call You to bear witness to my Art,

Great Hekate, who rules all realms,

I call You to bear witness to my Art,

Come to bear witness 

to the praise of Your merry band,

It is the Sabbath!

Now is the time of the longest night, 

the Winter Solstice!

I call You to rise here, 

Goddesses whom we honor,

I call to you as a witch,

I call to you as a sorceress calls,

Bound by oath and blood and mark to You.

Come hither, I call Your names!

- EA Kaufman 2013

Blessings dark and deep!

Winter Magick Day 18

 Mother Berchta’s Coming To Town

You better watch out when winter comes night 
You better not doubt, I’m telling you why.
Mother Berchta’s coming to town! 
She carries a sack made out of a skin
She dumps the toys out and stuffs the kids in,
Mother Berchta’s coming to town! 
She rides on Ashurskeggi
A goat whose back is strong. 
Her beard is long and scraggly
And her tail is ten feet long! 
With six or eight horns, a moustache or two, 
Make no mistake, she’s coming for you!
Mother Berchta’s coming to town! 
She knows with whom you’re sleeping, 
She knows with whom you wake,
She knows each thought you’re thinking 
So don’t think, for Goddess sake!
So when the winds howl way up in the sky 
Listen as she and Skeggi pass by.
Mother Berchta’s coming, 
Mother Berchta’s coming,
Yes, Mother Berchta’s coming to town!

Sung to the tune of Santa Clause is Coming to Town
Lyrics rewritten by The Greenwood Singers, a Seattle based Pagan Chorus.

Blessings dark and deep!

December Magick Day 17

 

The Wild Horde 

The Frauen are the leaders of the Wild Horde, the band of wandering souls, especially children’s souls, who fly through the winter night skies (perhaps disguised as swans, or wild geese, or the wind). 
This is even true for St Lucy. In Norway, she is considered a loose woman, even a goblin, and is said to lead the Wild Hunt. 
The Wild Horde itself was a complex phenomenon whose origins lose themselves partly in the prehistoric past. There was the assembly of ghosts under the leadership of a female divinity—Hecate or Artemis in ancient Greece; in the Latin West, Diana or Herodias, the mother of Salome. This gathering of female spirits, which later swelled into the crowd of evil hags at the witches’ sabbath, was well known to theologians of the first millennium who in vain flung their anathema against it: As usual the effort was in vain.

- Celebrating Winter Solstice, Customs and Crafts, Recipes and Rituals for 
 Festivals of Light, Hanukkah, Yule, and Other Midwinter Holidays; Compiled by Waverly Fitzgerald

Blessings dark and deep!

Winter Magick Day 15

 

Winter Blessing

As winter weaves its silver spell 
across the dreaming, starlit land, 
may every snowflake's shining fall 
place quiet wonder in your hand
May frostlight shimmer where you walk, 
and night skies bloom in crystal hue, 
a season spun of whispered magic, glimmering paths and skies anew.
Let joy awaken in the cold; 
let bright enchantment find you near.
And may the winter's gentle spark 
bring warmth and wonder through the year.

- Yasmine Galenorn

Winter Magick Day 14

 

Night of Lussi

In Norway, December 13th use to be known as Lussinatten and thought to be a magical night. Before the calendar changed around 1700 in Norway, December 13 was the longest night.

Lussi, thought to be a feared fairy enchantress, demoness, or witch, traveled about with ghosts and other mysterious spirits on this night. She would, it was said, snatch up and carry away anyone She encountered wandering outside. Hence, people stayed inside and no work was done. It was also said that farm animals talked to each other on this night.

Be sure to keep the lights on and stay inside!
Blessings dark and deep!

Winter Magick Day 13

 

A Candle Ritual For A December Night

Gather these items: 
Two chime candles or other small candles, one red, one green
A slice of bread with honey and cinnamon
Incense of pine, balsam, or rosemary 

At some quiet time during the evening, perform this small ritual to give thanks and ask for blessings through the winter.
At your altar or some other place that you like, set your candles in holders. Have a plate with the bread and honey next to them. Gather your thoughts and focus your energies. Light the incense. Think about the Goddesses you revere and the spirit guardians of your home. Consider how They have assisted you and your family throughout the year. Hold your hands over the candles and send your thanks into Them. Now light the candles and blow gently over the bread. Chant this or something similar:

Great Ones of Winter, 
Guardians of hearth and home, 
Mothers of the Hidden Light, 
You who are ever present in this home. 
Bless my work. 
Bless and guard this family.
Guide our steps as the sun is born again. 
I offer this 7flame, this food, this breath of thanks for all that has been done,
For all You continue to do.
May goodwill grow and may wisdom lead us 

through the cold into the returning dawn.
So mote it be!

Let the candles burn until finished, leave the offering at your ritual place. When the candles have finished, eat the offering as a way to give it to the goddesses and home guardians.
Blessings dark and deep!

Note: the chant is adapted from the book Witch’s Yuletide by Lilly Ryan

Winter Magick Day 10

 

Winter Magick Day 10: 

A Prayer to the Lady Sun at the Winter Solstice

Great Lady who is the Sun, 

The  wheel of fire, radiant in Your glory,

Hear me as I honor You on this, 

The shortest day of the year.

Summer has gone, passed us by,

the fields are dead and cold,

all of earth sleeps in Persephone's absence.

But even in the darkest times,

You light the way for those who  

need a beacon of hope, 

of brightness, shining in the night.

Winter is here, and colder days coming,

the fields are bare, seemingly empty.

Demeter mourns Her Daughter, 

She journeys within, as do we,

In reflection, introspection, rest.

We light these candles in Your honor,

that You might gather Your strength

and bring life and warmth back to the world.

Mighty Lady Who is the Sun above us,

Lady Bright, Lady Light,

we ask You to return, 

to bring back to us

the light and the warmth of Your fire.

Bring life back to earth,

Bring light back to earth.

Hail the Lady, the Golden Sun!

The original version of this prayer was written by Patti Wigington, About.com. As a Dianic Feminist witch, I took certain liberties with it and created a Dianic version to merge with my practice. 

This version was created in 2008.

Winter Magick Day 9

A Winter Meditation 

During these days before the solstice, in the deepening dark, allow yourself to be seduced by that luscious darkness. Sometimes there is fear of the darkness, I know this well myself. But try to consider it not as a place to fear, but as a safe place, warm and soothing, nourishing and restorative. Allow yourself to see it as a place of hibernation, where you move away from any coldness and harshness, the overstimulation and busyness of the physical world, a healing place where you can indulge yourself in periods of creativity, healing, and rest. 

Find a cozy place, sit or lie down. Wrap yourself in a soft blanket, a cup of tea or cocoa at your side, perhaps some very soft, relaxing music or silence, as you like. Lean back and read along, traveling with me.

Let your body relax, sink in to your cozy place, and take some deep breaths. Close your eyes. Breathe deeply but easily into your belly. At your own pace, gently, gently, and relax. 

Visualize yourself at the entrance to a cave. The air is warm and comfortable, the scent of the earth rich and soothing. You walk forward with the knowledge that you are perfectly safe at all times on this journey.

As you walk forward, you feel yourself descending down an incline. There is soil and stone all around and roots hang from above. There are small lantern’s hanging  here and there gently lighting your way. You are completely relaxed in this place, any worries are released, there is only contentment here. 

You gaze around and notice lovely stones of different colors embedded in the soil of the walls. And you keep walking, down, down, deeper into Mama Earth, feeling more and more at peace as you go.

And now you notice the ground has become more even and you see ahead of you a door in the earth. It opens in welcome and there is light and warmth. An old woman stands there wordlessly inviting you to enter. There beyond the door is a room, the walls lined in richly colored fabrics of all kinds. A hearth of rough stone is opposite the door, a fire brightly burning. Soft, pillowy chairs are arranged near the hearth, and the woman waves a hand towards the seats. So… you sit gazing around at the wonderful colored fabrics on the walls, their embroidery of leaves and flowers, animals and insects, mushrooms and birds so pretty and alive. The colors are stunning, almost hypnotic, and you feel an incredible soothing sensation wash over you. This room embraces you a gentle energy.

“Be comfortable here and rest yourself,” says the old woman. Her voice is soft. “This time of year is such a rush, take a break with me here. Chat with me or just enjoy the crackle of my fire. All is well here, all is well for you.” She serves a warm beverage, just what you like. You wonder how could she know. Her eyes are bright, you feel such reassurance in her presence, as if you have always known her. 

There is no need to know who this woman is, you just intuitively know that she is someone you can be at ease with, who offers a peaceful respite from your world. Relax in her presence, rest and allow her healing to flow over you. The lovely walls, the beautiful embroideries, the warm and inviting energy, all soothe your entire being. Let yourself drift. 

After a while of rest you may have a question, a need for clarification of something in your life. This old one will have a bit of advice to share so listen carefully, open your heart. Is she speaking to you?

When you are ready, say thank you and farewell. Walk through the Old One’s door. Move easily up the incline, perhaps a stone will offer itself to you as you walk. Breathe in the rich scent of roots and stone and earth. Breathe in deeply of Mama Earth’s energy.

As you move up returning to your own place, the gentle peace of the Old One’s room remains, as does the knowledge that you can return anytime you like or need to. She is always there, at all times, offering rest, healing, and peace. 

Return now to your own place, restored. 

Blessings dark and deep!

C 2025 EA Kaufman 

Winter Magick Day 8

 

A Tarot/Oracle Spread for the Winter

This spread asks some interesting questions. This time of year we are in the deep dark, a time I always settle well into. I’m more introspective and reflective. My mind works hard at turning through things. So here, I thought, is a good way to focus and process some things in my life, major changes that have been difficult. If I’m honest, I am not through the work yet, but I’ll get by as I always do. People do, because it is the way of all things in life. Change is both scary and exciting. At my age, I would have liked less excitement, however that is just my resistance speaking. 

Winter gives us time to pause, hibernate, and meditate our way through. What parts of your life need reflection and processing through? The questions asked in this spread will be helpful to getting answers.

Blessings dark and deep!

Winter Magick Day 5

A Winter Solstice Charm

This sachet charm is a lovely and magickal gift for others or yourself. Before you begin creating it, light a red candle and some pine or fir incense. Let yourself focus with love and power upon this task.

Gathering together a square of fabric, green, red, gold, or a small pouch will do.

Ribbon or yarn in an appropriate color. I like to make a braid of red, green, and gold embroidery floss.

Herbs for each sachet: 

A pinch of Cinnamon chips or broken bits of broken cinnamon stick - for success, healing, increased energy.

9 Allspice berries - for success, prosperity, good health and healing, vitality, love.

1 Whole nutmeg - for money, good luck, protection.

13 Cloves - for protection, repelling negative.

A pinch of Rosemary - the dried needles - for warding off evil, remembrance, focus.

A pinch of Pine needles - for abundance, longevity, healing, spiritual growth.

A slice of ginger - for healing, love, passion, success, prosperity, protection.

A pinch of Caraway seeds - for love and faithfulness, protection, acquiring wisdom.

A bay leaf to make wishes come true, protection.

A drop of Bayberry, pine, cinnamon, or clove oil, or a combination of 1 or 2 as you like. 

Mix the herbs with the oil as you set the intention for all good things, adding your energy to them. Chant this to empower:

In the name of the Winter Goddesses

Three times three

Consecrated and blessed these herbs now be.

All good things they do bring!

Awake, alive, their power sings!

Place in the herb blend in the center of the square of fabric. Fold up the 4 corners and tie three knots with your ribbon or yarn to close.

Hold the sachet in you hands and chant:

A blessing upon this charm in my hands,
Where it resides, all good stands.
I have made it so and so it is,
In the Lady’s name, its power lives!

May all the blessings you wish for others be yours as well!

Blessings dark and deep.

C 2025 EA Kaufman 

Winter Magick Day 3

Winter Solstice Tree Blessing

Holy Lady, Creator of Trees,

bestow Your abundant blessings upon 

this our Solstice tree, a symbol of joy.

May its evergreen branches be a sign

of your never-fading love & wisdom.

May its colorful lights and ornaments

decorate our home and our world

with love & peace.

May the gifts that surround this tree

be symbols of the gifts we have received

from the beautiful Earth Herself.

Blessed Winter Solstice tree within our home,

may Joy and Peace, wisdom and abundance,

compassion & love come and nest 

in your branches and in our hearts.

So mote it be.

Blessings dark and deep!

- a Christian prayer for blessing the Christmas tree, found at beliefnet.com & re-worded by EA Kaufman 

A Witch’s Tea

 A Witch’s Tea

Tea in the Witch Wood to be taken at four

If the sun does shine or the rain does pour!

Toadstool sandwiches sliced like a dream,

Brown boiled acorns and fairy cream.

Hawthorn berry jam on mandrake leaves,

Spiced dark tea all under the trees.

And if there’s room, do not forsake

at least one slice of full moon cake!

c 2025 E A Kaufman

Inspired by the tea poem in Sara Midda’s book In and Out Of the Garden, 1981

Art: unknown artist

Hail and Farewell

Patricia Crowther, Gardnarian High Priestess, Occultist, and probably the oldest Elder of the Craft, passed through the Veil on September 24th, 2025.

I met her many years ago at a shop that unfortunately no longer exists, The Magical Forest, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. I held hands with her and was amazed by her energy. I feel blessed to have had that experience.

We are all older than once we were. Hail and Farewell, Patricia. I am honored to have met you.

Blessings dark and deep.