The Wheel of the Year has been marked for thousands of years with beautiful rituals across many different traditions that help the seeker connect consciously with the immense wild-field of energy that is stirring, and to put it to use.

In this workshop, timed to end of January, early February, we explore the Wheel of the Year and how it is engaged with for Modern Magic.  We will engage in a Spring Elemental meditation and Spell Casting for ourselves and our friends using three of the season’s most loved and widely used spell frameworks: Bay Burning, Brigid’s Knot and Corn Dolls.

May 1st marks the turn of the Wheel of the Year into Beltane, the anglicised name for the Gaelic May Day festival. It is traditionally celebrated on the full moon from April 30th, through to the eve of May 1st, about half-way between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. Beltane is said to be the oldest known holiday on the planet and it is loaded with the natural energies of possibility, potential, fertility, fire, passion and celebration.

In this workshop we will cover the principles of engaging with the Wheel of the Year, Beltane mindmap of our inner ground, Beltane correspondences for spell casting and weave a Beltane Pentagram for our altars.

Managing our physical, mental, emotional and energetic fields to ensure we are well and operating magically requires conscious action. We are exposed to a constant stream of vibrational disruptors that affect sleep, immunity, creativity, mood and magical power. 

The ability to detect diminished life force and to take action to ‘seal the energy boundary’ and maintain high resonance in the system is key. 

In this workshop we will cover the usual signs of energetic wobbles and common causes, breathwork techniques to raise spiritual energy, the protective power of gratitude and awe, well known talismans for protection and how to make and use them (including protection crystals), earthing and Blowing Powder techniques.

The practice of smudging dates back to prehistoric times. Traditional herbs and incense are used, combined with intentional meditation and visualisation to clear either physical spaces in preparation for energy work, special objects, or to clear the personal etheric space of imprints and unwanted energies. In this workshop we will cover when and how to smudge, typical and effective smudging herbs, mists and sounds, practices for psychic cleansing, Salt Bathing, why and how to cleanse crystals and power objects, and how to make a herbal smudging stick and smudging mist.

A Zone Rite is a ritualistic creation of a ‘liminal space’ which is protected and clear of unwanted energies, to perform magical workings. The creation of a Zone Rite, alters the awareness into a deep magical state and allows magical workings to enter deeply into the ‘causal grid’  and therefore bring about change. Zone Rites can take many forms, yet also contain similar elements across many magical and shamanic traditions. Examples of Zone Rites are, the Native American Medicine Wheel, the Mandala and the Labyrinth. In this workshop we will cover, why are Zone Rites important and so effective, Zone Rites from various world traditions, the common elements in Zone Rites, Medicine Wheel rites and Wiccan rites.

The term ‘Magic’, by its very nature, invokes a wide range of interpretations. At its very core ‘Magic’ is the spiritual engagement with our everyday reality in creative ways that influences outcomes. This engagement requires certain perceptions, desire, will and energy.

 In this workshop we will break down the key ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ aspects of effective Practical Magic. We will learn two breathwork practices that raise spiritual energy in the body and ‘divine’ and create and activate our very own Soul Symbols.