A Love Letter to My Coven: Allow Me to Get a Bit Ooey Gooey, This One Time

At our most recent gathering, on the weekend of the Spring Equinox, we got so wrapped up in simply being together, conversing, sharing our current struggles and victories, reading cards and runes, eating lots of food and participating in an amazing photo shoot - as you can see here - that we simply ran out of time and energy for the ritual we had planned. And yet, that does not mean that magick was not still made… strong magick.

So, what is a coven if you can’t often meet in person and magickal workings rarely take place? Still a coven is my answer… and the Magick that is spun and sent out into the universe is such that we don’t need to cast a circle or petition our spirits for. We create this magick simply by nurturing our connections with each other and, as a result, with our own individual crafts.

Juliet Diaz wrote in her debut book, Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within, about her own coven:

“We don’t always perform Magickal workings together - we go out to dinner, we go out hiking to worship the Earth, and we do a lot of work for charity. What matters about a coven is that it feels good and it feels right for you.”

I couldn’t agree with this more - and its precisely how I would describe our group.

In honor of our recent spring equinox gathering and in light of my own new beginning with The Hearth and Hedge, I wanted my first personal blog post to be about the amazing friends and coven that I share my life with. No matter how far away they may be, I have never felt closer to and more myself around any group of people such as this. And - as a bonus - they happen to be a bunch of pretty bad ass witches to boot. You are not all pictured here because distance made it impossible. But, you know who you are and I love you!

See you at Anahata’s...

- Love, Margo