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I’m in an industrious mood and the good people at Kymaraco Printing came through WAY faster than I expected, so you’re getting another super-sized merch drop this month! Apart from the Patreon Poll winner, there’s a brand new discount powder bundle and two new bumper stickers.

Let’s meet the new arrivals!

🌹 Garden Witch Keychain (Patreon Poll Winner!)

A subtly witchy garden-themed adornment for your keys, zippers, favorite bag, and more! Charms include a pentacle, gardening tools, a rose, and a flower chain. (Two variations are available!)

🌹 Bless This Mess Powder Bundle

A discount bundle of three powders for metaphysical home maintenance of all sorts - Home Blessing Powder, Clean House Powder, and Harmony Salt.

🌹 “Always Practice Safe Hex” Bumper Sticker

The iconic catchphrase of the Hex Positive podcast, now on a chic black-and-white bumper sticker!

🌹 “We Are The Weirdos, Mister” Bumper Sticker

Shoutout to my fellow weirdos! Everyone’s favorite line from “The Craft,” ready to add a little magic wherever it’s placed.

Remember to use code FLOWERCROWN for 20% off new and featured items all month long! 

Also! When you visit the site, make sure you check out the new Catalog setup on the header menu. I’ve added some subsections that make it easier to find what you’re looking for, without having to wade through pages and pages of other products in some of the larger categories.

Don’t forget to check out the Upcoming Events page for my full schedule of local markets and workshops. Tune in to Hex Positive on your favorite listening app, check out the Redbubble shop for fabulous podcast merch, and join my Patreon to vote in next month’s poll!

Upcoming Events:

Myths & Monsters Market Sunday, May 24th 2026, 11am-6pm New Realm Brewing Co. 5941 Harbour View Blvd, Suffolk VA (USA) Hosted by Otaku Events LLC

The Faerie Faire MarketSaturday, May 30th 2026, 12pm-8pm New Realm Brewing Co. 1209 Craft Ln, Virginia Beach VA (USA) Hosted by Curators Key Events

Shoutout to all the witches with no accessible witch store.

Shoutout to all the sea witches who live miles inland.

Shoutout to all the cosmic witches who live in areas with high light pollution.

Shoutout to all the kitchen witches who live in dorms or spaces with no actual kitchen.

Shoutout to all the green witches who live in urban spaces, where the closest forgeable are the weeds that grow in the cracks of the sidewalk.

Shoutout to the all desert witches who live in lush, rainy locations.

Shoutout to all the witches who live in places where fire can’t be used.

Shoutout to all the broom closet witches who live in non-witchy households.

Shoutout to all the diaspora witches who live in lands unknown to your ancestors.

🫧 sound

music, bells, pots and pans, singing

🫧 liquid

charged or blessed water, alcohol, vinegar, essential oil sprays

🫧 scents

candles, essential oils (diffused)

🫧 physical cleaning

sweep

vacuum

wipe down

*make a blend of cleansing herbs, sprinkle around your space, and either sweep it out the back door or vacuum it up and dispose of the contents

🫧 simmer pots [for the steam]

🫧 rearrange your space

🫧 open your windows

🫧 visualization + meditation

🫧 sun, moon, or starlight

🫧 rain + storms

🫧 the elements

earth - salt floor sweep

air - breath and wind

fire - heat and sunlight

water - see above

🫧 salt

place a bowl of salt in the main room of your home

🫧 crystals

place in the center or corner of the space you want to cleanse

Witch tip: If you use a cast iron cauldron (or other such cast iron conduit) for your craft, remember to season it.

But the idea of celebrating the wheel of the year is a very neo-pagan one we have some evidence that the equinoxes were celebrated by some pagans in history, but having an organized set wheel with multiple sabbats is a modern invention and doesn't work for every hemisphere

The neopagan Wheel of the Year™ was literally invented in the 1950s by two guys: Gerald Gardner and Ross Nichols.

At the time, revival druidry (of which they were both part) was celebrating 4 annual festival, at the solstices and equinoxes.

Also, there was a popular (if incorrect) notion that much British and European folklore represented continuous pre-Christian traditions, including the 4 Irish festivals (incorrectly categorised as pan-Celtic 'fire' festivals*) of Beltane, Lammas, Samhain, and Imbolc.

* Check out Ronald Hutton's Stations of the Sun (1996) for an in-depth history of the British ritual year, including all 4 of these festivals, and popular perceptions of them.

They decided to combine the two to create the 8-spoked 'wheel of the year'. (And Aidan Kelly came along in the 1970s and added the more romantic Wiccan names to the solstices and equinoxes)

The 8-spoked 'Wheel of the Year' festival structure is part of Wicca (founded by Gerald Gardner) and OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, a revival druid order founded by Ross Nichols).

If you're not a member of OBOD or any formal Wiccan tradition? You have absolutely zero requirement or obligation to follow/observe/celebrate the Wheel of the Year™.

You obviously can!

You can observe all of them. Observe some but not others. Rename them. Adapt them. Cannibalise it and turn it into something new.

(Personally, I like the structure, so I kept that and built my own whole thing on top of it.)

You also don't need to as much as acknowledge it in your practice if you don't want to.

It's not some Ancient, Universal, Correct thing. It was literally just made up by two guys.

You can follow seasonal events based on your location, your culture, your folklore, your history. You can make things up just because you want to. Or you can not observe any seasonal festivals.

You can usually find books on witchcraft, yes, but there’s also field guides on local foraging and wildlife, cookbooks, books that teach you how to craft and DIY, books about environmental protection and stewardship, books on how to use herbs medicinally, books about other religions, cultures, and spiritual practices. My favorite local library even has a seed swapping program and fantastic resources to research your own family history!

Four Leaf clovers are very special to me, I've always wanted to find some of my own, Because I'm housebound because of my disability I decided to grow clover this year and hopefully grow my own four-leaf clovers. I ended up successfully growing two so far and they are my first ever naturally found 4 leaf clovers. I sacrificed one for a recent spell, And it worked fucking amazingly.

Yes, some of us older witches learned on our own without an online community to guide us, but that community exists now and should be another tool for those new to the craft!

None of us started out knowing what we know now we all were once new to the craft and we should be offering what we've learned over our years of practice, not driving new practitioners away

and this goes for Pagans as well, especially those who work with deities If a new practitioner is asking about the gods and looking for a place to start they shouldn't be made fun of or told to buzz off and do their own research Yes, research and books are important, but sometimes trying to sort out good sources can be really overwhelming especially when you don't yet know how to ell the good from the bad

To new witches and pagans:

There are no set "rules" to witchcraft and paganism and there is no "right or wrong" way to practice your practice is your own and can be whatever feels right for you! And you should always stay curious and ask questions That's what witchcraft and paganism are all about: asking questions and gaining a better understand about life and the world around you! And if anyone makes you feel bad about asking questions, they're not someone you want to associate with anyways

Eight of Wands and Ace of Cups