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We just had a witch bottle workshop (urine free) through the conclave and even have a few extra to sell in the shop!

Happy New Year!

Gunna pat our own backs but we were in the paper! Someone came into the shop and showed us this. After obviously playing it cool and not jumping around like excited idiots we had to show everyone we knew. Special thanks to Nara Shoenberg for the amazing writing and being a real trooper during our October full moon ritual. Check it out here! https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-witchcraft-popularity-millennials-10172019-20191024-7luvsszmszgybfpn6c6f7vag34-story.html

Back in the shop and busy throwing together some magic. Hope everyone had a great holiday! We’re posting all our upcoming workshops and events for December. If you want to stop by for a spell you can check them out on our website or meetup.com under the Witches’ Conclave.

Herbal and other plant ingredients are especially easy to come across and very powerful in spellwork. But many modern witches will avoid using animal parts in their spells. We obviously prefer humanely gathered animal parts, but if they can be found, they would greatly influence your magic. The spirit of a once living creature is extremely powerful to be able to call upon for aid. The parts can be used as altar items, to adorn tools, as talismans, in potions, powders, or charm bags. Bones are excellent for drawing on the powers of death and the afterlife as well as dealing with matters of the body like health and transformation. Bones can also be used in many forms of divination to tell the future. The qualities of the animals can be drawn on as well in spells like the flexibility of snakes, stealth of cats, or strength of a stag. Even the specific part can offer symbolism such as jaws for communication, teeth and claws for attack and defense, feet and wings for travel, shells for protection and spells of the home, and fur for comfort.

Last night we had a fun Full Moon ritual. Everyone came together and brewed a potion for truth under the Aries moon.

Any concierge witchery will be by appointment, but we are in and out during the week to work and restock so if you see us in, feel free to pop by to work on some spells, catch up on magical studies, or shop through our selection for tools, charms, and ingredients.

We finally pulled it together and had a workshop to make full sized broomsticks in time for Halloween! After talking about the magical uses of brooms, we did an exercise with them for use in spirit flight. Then finished by taking our brooms outside and cackling. It was a bewitching night.