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08/19/2025

WhiteRaven and Witch's Lair reviews Miss Aida's Figural Candle Spells: Conjuring Magic with the Power of Fire (Warlock Press, 2025). Available from Amazon and more!

Hello, my beautiful Witches! In today’s video, we’re diving into Miss Aida’s awesome book Figural Candle Spells: Conjuring Magic with the Power of Fire. Thi...

08/12/2025

Mama Denise, who drummed at the HexFest riverboat ritual as part of the Congo Square Preservation Society, which meets every Sunday at Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park gave such a powerful speech about the need to be “shoulder strong.” This is what magical community means. Together, we can do anything.

08/11/2025

Communication with Spirits 101 from Ouija Boards to Seances!
A Workshop with Kalila Smith
HexFest 2025, A Weekend of Witchery in Old New Orleans
August 8 to 10, 2025!
https://www.hexfest.com/w2/kalilasmith
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Paranormal expert, Kalila Smith, will take participants on a candid look at the various methods used to communicate with spirits using techniques such as EVP, ITC, pendulums, Ouija Boards, Automatic Writing, and into the world of mediumship using seance techniques.

She will also address the use of ghost boxes, Ovilus devices, and show you how to build your own suped up ghost box recorder. She will also discuss how to know what you are communicating with. What is a ghost? What was never a ghost? What to avoid? And how to probably open and close portals safely.

08/09/2025

Spinning Your Wheel of the Year
A Workshop with Juliet Rose
HexFest 2025, A Weekend of Witchery in Old New Orleans
August 8 to 10, 2025!
https://www.hexfest.com/w2/julietrose
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Many of us honor seasons and cycles in our practice, just as the witches of old honored the agricultural cycles. However, as we know, seasonal cycles don’t look the same in every region and climate. For example, summer solstice time in New Orleans may look different than summer solstice elsewhere in the United States, let alone around the world. How can you adapt a witches’ wheel of the year to relate to where you live and practice? In this class, we’ll each make our own wheel of the year (graphics provided to fill in). We’ll talk about how weather patterns, plant/animal/insect behavior, and other factors might impact how you work your seasonal magick so that you can get the most out of your magickal year!

08/09/2025

Papa Legba: The Gatekeeper of the Spirits
A Workshop with Houngan Sen Jak
HexFest 2025, A Weekend of Witchery in Old New Orleans
August 8 to 10, 2025!
https://www.hexfest.com/w2/houngansenjak
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Let’s talk about one of the most popular Loa in Haitian Vodou and also in New Orleans Voodoo. Many have heard of Papa Legba and possibly even attempted to work with him by means of their own initiative, whether through curiosity or personal acts and devotionals.

Legba has one of the largest and most commonly misunderstood reputations. Who is he actually, and what role does and can he play in the lives of the initiated and uninitiated? These questions will all be addressed.

It’s vital to understand how he speaks to us—and, importantly, how we can speak to him. And of course, the big one is how to know if he is calling, and if and when to engage in that "pull."

Join in for this rare and exciting opportunity to honor our beloved Papa Legba. Ayibobo!

08/07/2025

Channeled Drawing to Create Talismans for Magical Spell Work
A Workshop with Elie Barnes
HexFest 2025, A Weekend of Witchery in Old New Orleans
August 8 to 10, 2025!
https://www.hexfest.com/w2/eliebarnes
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Think back to the oldest of cave paintings, carvings in rock faces, scratches in bone. Some symbols are so universal, like the circle, it has appeared in every culture in every time period. Even more elaborate letters, alchemical symbols, planetary magical squares are examples of line drawing corresponding to magical symbolism. I have long been fascinated with the art of Austin Osman Spare and Rosaleen Norton, Eliphas Levi and Alister Crowley. They placed their hand in in service to Spirit. They created art from their psychic minds, as they induced a psychic trance. I am convinced that the earliest drawings and writings of humans were constructed in similar fashion. There is a superhighway of symbolism that comes forth from the subconscious as magical images.

In this class, we will use colored markers and pencils with heavy card stock to draw and write while in a hypnotic state. Elie will safely lead us to a connection with our higher mind, and our own spirit guides. Then we will be directed to draw and create our own personalized magical tableaus and talismans. Before we begin the work, we will be introduced to basic universal symbols of numbers, shapes, colors and primal images, so we have some reference points and ideas in the collective unconscious. We will also explore automatic writing and automatic drawing as art. Each participant will take home their work, to use in their personal magics.

08/06/2025

Journey to the Dark Goddess: A Pathworking to the Underworld
A Workshop with Christine Stephens
HexFest 2025, A Weekend of Witchery in Old New Orleans
August 8 to 10, 2025!
https://www.hexfest.com/w2/christinestephens
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Join Witch and High Priestess Christine Stephens as you step beyond the veil and descend into the sacred depths of your being in this transformative workshop. Journey to the Dark Goddess invites you to explore the archetype of the Dark Goddess, and that the fierce, wise, and untamed force that dwells in the shadows of both myth and self.

Through guided meditation, sensory aids, and introspective practices we will enter the symbolic underworld, encountering guides and puzzles, and confronting the parts of ourselves we have been taught to hide. In meeting the Dark Goddess, we reclaim lost power, unravel inner truths, and learn to walk through darkness with courage and grace.

08/06/2025

Miss Aida , author of Figural Candle Spells: Conjuring the Magic of Fire (Warlock Press, 2025), gives a class on working with figural candles! Get her book retail, wholesale, and ebook through WarlockPress.com!

https://www.facebook.com/MissAidaPsychic/videos/666910135783178

08/05/2025

Death Walking
A Workshop with Christina Wilke-Burbach
HexFest 2025, A Weekend of Witchery in Old New Orleans
August 8 to 10, 2025!
https://www.hexfest.com/w2/christinawilke-burbach
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A “Deathwalker” or “Psychopomp” (from the Greek word psychopompos, literally meaning the “guide of souls”), is a magickal person who helps souls that are reluctant, stuck, or seem to be unable to move on from their death. Death Walkers assist those who have already left the physical body and need help completing their transition and returning to their spiritual home/ the afterlife. A Death Walker is one who meets with the departed soul in the otherworld and non-ordinary realms versus a Medium who will invite the departed soul to the ordinary realm and meet with them. A Death Walker is not necessarily a Death Doula, as the Death Walker exclusively works with those who are already dead. In this workshop, Christina Wilke-Burbach PhD, will cover:

* The ancient history of Death Walking

* Psychopomps in mythologies from around the world

* A cartography (map) of the spirit world

* Why some souls get stuck and turn into hauntings, apparitions, unusual spiritual activity, paranormal activity, and corrupted energy.

* Things we can do while still living to prevent reluctant souls and hauntings

* Death Walking Techniques and Tools

* How to protect yourself and keep yourself safe when Death Walking

* Christina will then guide you on a Death Walker journey/pathworking into the otherworld

08/05/2025

Don't Forget To Get Your Tickets to the Ball!
The Official Salem Witches' Halloween Ball is on Halloween Night this year, which means it is certain to sell out months in advance, so we strongly urge you to get your tickets early! The theme this year is Witch and Famous, and we've included this year's Swag Bag design! It's filled with magical goodies and goes to the first one hundred people to arrive!

https://www.festivalofthedead.com/witchesball/index.htm