By: moonagemagic March 20, 2019August 12, 2019 Monthly Witch Please ColumnFeaturedLeave a Comment

Ostara Unfurling

Her glossed lips parted and a tender sigh escaped. The mid-morning light illuminated her face from the subway window. The mysterious stranger couldn’t hide her blush as her lover reached in for another kiss as he stroked her cheek. As we pulled into Canal Street, the young lover said, “more, later,” and dashed off. It…

By: moonagemagic February 14, 2019August 9, 2019 Monthly Witch Please ColumnFeaturedLeave a Comment

Heart of Purification

In the belly of February we lie, existing in a liminal space where sighs of spring and the waxing light blossoms in-between snowflakes. Like goddesses in mythology, our bodies are stretching, awakening limbs, muscles, senses and hearts from underneath the layers of winter’s necessary hibernation. In ancient Roman times, February marked Februalia or Februa,…

By: moonagemagic February 17, 2017August 7, 2019 Monthly Witch Please ColumnFeaturedLeave a Comment

Magic for the Heart

Working in an occult shop as Valentine’s Day approached always brought out the romantic and amateur sociologist in me. I never grew tired of hearing people’s tales of broken hearts, sweet kisses, and the courage of commitment. For a secular holiday with murky and not so romantic origins, Valentine’s Day holds such a sense of…

Cat Cabral is a practicing witch, tarot reader and author of The Spells Deck (Chronicle Books) a 78 card deck of spells, rituals and witchcraft tips for the modern mystic coming out September 17th 2019. For over a decade you could find her managing Enchantments, one of America’s oldest occult shops, blending oils, incenses and magical prescriptions behind the apothecary…

Venefica Magazine V3 + Launch Party

VENEFICA VOLUME 3 is almost HERE! I’m delighted to have contributed a piece, QUEEN OF THE FLOWERS: ON ROSES & ROSE MAGIC to this radical occulture magazine published by Catland Books. To purchase click here VENEFICA V3 Launch Party Friday March 22nd –7-10pm Kickstarter HQ 58 Kent Street Brooklyn NY 11222 From Catland’s site: Kickstarter Music (and the…

Ostara Unfurling

Heart of Purification

The Hermit’s Reckoning

Every morning I forget how it is. I watch the smoke mount In great strides above the city. I belong to no one. Then I remember my shoes, How I have to put them on, How bending over to tie them up I will look into the earth. -Poem by Charles Simic As I…

Waves of Eclipses

“I am always under direct inspiration. I know just what to do and give instant obedience to my intuitive leads.” According to Florence Scovel Shinn, a turn of the century metaphysical author of affirmations, your word is truly your wand. Witches, seekers and spiritualists alike know the inherent power of words when invoking spells, mantras,…

Wax Tales of Love

With Beltane (the fire festival welcoming summer in its blazing, sensual glory) around the corner, the most common topic asked by tarot clients and seekers alike is about love magic. As a Libra who most definitely wears rose-tinted glasses, I fully believe in love as life’s most renewable resource one can give and receive.…

Seeds of Love On The Spring Equinox

“A cold spring, the violet was flawed on the lawn. For two weeks or more the trees hesitated; the little leaves waited. One day in a chill white blast of sunshine, on the side of one a calf was born.” — “A Cold Spring” by Elizabeth Bishop Springtime always evokes the poet in me and…

Eve of Imbolc

Many of my friends celebrate New Year’s as a perfunctory holiday or as “amateur night,” because the calendar year is a creation of modern times. Pagans and Witches alike view Samhain or Halloween as the “Witches New Year,” despite varying opinions. For me, the new year actually takes flight on the eve of Imbolc (February…

Father Time

As an enthusiast of the art of comics, one that I’ve kept taped to various incarnations of vision boards is, of all things, a Christian Jack Chick-inked pamphlet, “Hi, There!” featuring a winking grim reaper, scythe in hand waiting around the corner for a wise-cracking construction worker who is shocked to meet his maker. When I…

Hey, Jupiter

For my one-year wedding anniversary I escaped to Woodstock and experienced the starry night sky: a cabin surrounded by woods complete with sherbet colored sunrises and falling leaves. For a brief moment, frenetic city life and work-centered commitments were on pause and for two days only pleasure mattered. I breathed in air scented with beeswax…

The Spells Deck

The Spells Deck is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and IndieBound and will be available for purchase in fine bookstores and retailers on September 17th. Here’s a little bit about this labor of love, I’m so thrilled to announce, from Chronicle Books. “This luxe deck makes it easy to bring a little…