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12/22/2025

Blessed Yule and joyous Winter Solstice! May the reborn Sun shine in your spirit, illuminate your path, and bring magick and wonder into every corner of your life in the coming year!

And if you didn't get eaten by the Yule cat, check out BotB's 12 Nights of Yule *Tradition

https://www.backonthebroomstick.com/post/botb-s-12-nights-of-yule

*that we just made up and started this year

11/28/2025

Is it too early for Mari Lwyd season? Asking for a friend… and by friend we mean a very fancy, slightly pushy horse skeleton who wants to rap battle us for every drop of whiskey and food in the house!

Do you have anything prepared in case you have to throw down with a ghost horse at the door? 😂

Hope you all had better time than expected with friends and family yesterday, whether you were celebrating a holiday or just getting through the last Thursday of November. :}

We're thankful for all of you and would happily share our stash of goodies with you when you come to our door, preferably without having win a full on verbal duel first!!

Wishing you all a very happy start to the Holiday Cryptid Season!!

10/23/2025

Congratulations to Federica from the UK, the winner of our Season of the Witch Giveaway!

Federica has been one of our wonderful Benefactors for a while now, and her name was pulled in our random drawing! We’re so thrilled to send her prize of the Seasons of the Witch Oracle Deck and a few witchy goodies her way!

A huge thank you to all our Benefactors and deep gratitude to everyone who took the time to send in letters. Every single envelope was filled with such beautiful energy! You guys are truly magical!

Federica's package is in the hands of the USPS postal gremlins and as best we are able to scry it is chugging its way across the pond to soon land on the shores of the UK.

Safe travels to the box and Congratulations (and many many thanks) to Federica!!!!

10/11/2025

A winner has been chosen for the Season of the Witch Giveaway! They have been notified by email and we will officially announce it as soon as we hear back!

Thank you all for entering and making our day every time we check the mail! And HUGE Congratulations to the winner!!!

10/03/2025

So here's a magical mystery for you… In our latest Witches Answer episode, we talked about how to properly dispose of your own spell jars when the work is complete.

But what would you do if you came into possession of someone else's spell jars?

These jars came to Laylla through an auction as an unlisted item in a lot of crystals and tarot books. Four mysterious spell jars created by an unknown practitioner, with unknown intentions, for unknown purposes.

In episode 133 Laylla explains what she plans to do with them, but we want to hear your approach! How would you handle someone else’s spell components and/or jars?? Give us your witchy ideas in the comments!

09/30/2025

On October 1st don't forget to say "rabbit, rabbit, rabbit" for good luck, blow cinnamon in your front door (or throw a stick out of it!😂) for prosperity. And most important of all!! Make sure your letter is in the mail for the Seasons of the Witch Giveaway! Only entries postmarked October 1st are eligible!! Official rules here: https://www.backonthebroomstick.com/coming-soon-02

*If you live in a country that is not sending mail to the USA, the alternate entry under the rules is becoming a Benefactor at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2119523/support

09/24/2025

Thank you to everyone who has sent us mail!! The absolute joy and honor of reading your messages is one of our FAVORITE things to do. You all have shared your thoughts, your dreams, your love of the podcast (and your witchy Aunties!!), your magick, as well as your fears and sorrows, on paper and sent it to our magickal little box in Salem. And my gods do we love you for it!!

If Chelle is having a bad day, looking through old letters or getting new ones from the Post Office is a powerful mood lifter. As you know, Laylla loves few things more in the world than the written word; and Chelle makes sure she gets to see every letter as they come in!

This past week we had the opportunity to spend enough time together to do A LOT of magick, crafting, and of course workshops at CNY Pagan Pride. One of our favorite projects was making collages and a scrapbook from the mail you have sent us. When I say we read and re-read your letters it's not an exaggeration! These very meaningful, very gorgeous, very magickal mementos will hang in our offices until we someday get a studio together.

Thank you a million times! We love and appreciate you all from the bottom of our pointy toed boots to the top of our witchy hats!!

09/22/2025

Blessed Autumn Equinox and welcome to the Season of the Witch!! Ok, all seasons are witchy, but we have a special place in our hearts for Mabon; the Autumn Equinox. Equal day and equal night. The sacred pause where we find balance within and without. It's also the Witches’ Thanksgiving, a time to celebrate, enjoy and give thanks for the blessings of the season and prepare for the descent into the darker half of the year.

Chelle was in town over the weekend to spend time with Laylla and get up to all sorts of witchy antics! Not only did the witches get to the CNY Pagan Pride day but they spent time on the land, celebrating the season and honoring the land spirits. An altar of flowers, herbs, weeds and plants sprung up from the bounty of Laylla’s land and offerings from a local farm stand.

Despite Chelle’s ability to burn even water, she and Laylla were able to bake a rustic loaf of bread, filling the kitchen with the kind of magic you can eat. Warm, home-baked carbs are a blessing to the spirits of hearth and harvest….and to our bellies!

The descent into the dark isn’t all cozy kitchens, warm sweaters, and pumpkin spice treats; there is also the element of preparing for the dark, the cold, and the sacrifices of winter. As we cross this tipping point into the dark, we should ask ourselves
What are you ready to lay down, to sacrifice? And what will you bury to over-winter, knowing it will bloom in the spring?

Blessings of the Second Harvest to you and yours and Happy Autumn!

09/21/2025

A wonderfully witchy time was had at Central New York Pagan Pride Day, hosted by the incredible organizers and volunteers from CNY Pagans and Church of the Greenwood!

From the opening snake dance and ritual, to the workshops, performances, vendors, and amazing people, to the final drumming and closing ritual, our hearts and witchy souls are full.

Chelle's workshop at noon was Herbal Cartomancy; throwing herbs, reading cards and having a witchy good time!

In Laylla's workshop, Walking the Winding Path, participants learned how to draw and create a full size labyrinth.

We are still smiling and full of happy energy from all the listeners who stopped by our tent, workshops, or found us walking around to say hi! We had a fantastic day meeting people, getting hugs, having great conversations, making connections, and feeling the magick of community!

Gathering in person, showing up and supporting each other is powerful magick, especially now. Events like this are a reminder that we’re here. Witches, pagans, druids, animists, heathens, spiritual seekers of all kinds are many and the community is beautiful!

Thank you to the organizers, the vendors, the speakers, the volunteers, and every single person who came out to celebrate!

09/20/2025

Central New York Pagan Pride Day is off to a sunny start!! Crystal City Circle and Back on the Broomstick are manning a community table and doing a couple of workshops for the event! Huge thanks to Church of the Greenwood, the volunteers, presenters, and vendors that make this happen! If you’re in the Syracuse NY area stop in today and say hi and celebrate the Equinox weekend with a very large group of your new best pagan friends!

09/12/2025

We apologize but this Friday’s episode will be a little delayed. For many Americans 9/11 brings a heaviness that even these two witches are feeling and trying to navigate. Between that and tech issues and life’s usual chaos, your witches need a moment to breathe. We're taking a few extra days to get this week's episode out to you so that we can center and ground and give you us at our witchy best!

09/01/2025

We honor Spirit on the fifth day of Sirius Rising; the unseen thread that weaves all the elements together, the mystery that moves through everything.

At Brushwood, the Spirit Shrine is a sacred place where memory, magick, and mystery meet. What began as a simple mound in a field for ancestor offerings has grown over the last 20+ years into a deeply moving and beautifully curated space. Now, it holds not just the Ancestor Shrine and Ritual, but also a Dragon Shrine made from the bones of the Spirit dragon puppet crafted by the Archers years ago and at its heart, the labyrinth. The labyrinth is a meditative space to walk by day; and at night after the Spirit ritual it is lovingly lit by lanterns and offers a path to walk your spirit into deeper knowing.

The Archers, Brushwood’s Spirit Tribe, are an eclectic group of self-described spiritual wanderers who walk many paths, but come together in service to the mystery. Since 2005 they’ve built and maintained the labyrinth at the center of the Spirit Shrine. They’ve even created three different spirit dragons over the years to help call Spirit home during the elemental cycle. (puppets sounds too small to describe what they create, think Jim Henson level fire breathing REAL dragons)

Spirit gathers just across the threshold of dusk. In the hush before the stars, footsteps circle the labyrinth. Lanterns flicker, the dragon sleeps, and the ancestors listen. Spirit is found here, in the sacred memory of Travelers we hold dear, in the magick of being present, and in creative transformation

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