Enchantment Lab: Spellcasting #3
Casting Your Spell
How Doth the Little Crocodile (1998) by Leonora Carrington
Today, we’re going to create a petition spell with an added sprinkling of sympathetic magic, building on what we’ve learned in the last two lessons.
First off, here’s a basic petition spell script:
I ___________ (your name) ask in the name of ____________ (higher power of choice) for ___________ (desired outcome). Let this, or something even better, unfold in accordance with the…

Enchantment Lab: Spellcasting #2
Your Spellcasting Ingredients
The Love Potion (1903) by Evelyn De Morgan
Today we’re looking at the core ingredients of an effective spell, exploring each component from a Jungian Magic perspective. What purpose is it serving in the psyche, and how does that…

Enchantment Lab: Spellwork #1
Finding Your Spell’s Power Source
What better time to dive into spellwork than October?? Bring on the autumnal witchy vibes.
This month, we’re looking at the logic of spellcrafting. What are the components of an effective spell? How do these components actually work?…

Enchantment Lab: Dreamwork Bonus
Meeting the Goddess in Dreams
mosaic of Mnemosyne
To wrap up our dreamwork lesson, I want to look at the magical crossover between tarot and dreamwork (and I give you a fun bonus at the end).
Dreams are essentially a series of personally generated tarot cards,…

Enchantment Lab: Dreamwork #3
Step-by-step dream interpretation
Dream of St. Joseph (ca 1600) by Georges de la Tour
Today, we’re going to look at a step-by-step interpretation process that you can adapt as you learn what works best for you.
Write down the dream as soon as you can upon waking. If…

Enchantment Lab: Dreamwork #2
Parsing out a dream
The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) by Henri Rousseau
Today (and next week), we’re going to deep dive into the mechanics of dream interpretation, and ideally you now have some snippets or full stories from your own dreams to work with, so you can start…

Enchantment Lab: Dreamwork #1
The essentials of dreamwork
A Eunuch’s Dream (1874) by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ
Welcome to our first dreamwork lesson, Reader! We have lots of cool stuff to cover, so we’re going to jump right in, starting with a snippet of a dream I had on July 7. We’ll work with this…