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New World Witchery - The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft 
Hi there,
So for this entry I will share the newer witchcraft that I am exploring. I am hoping
to try shadow work over the first half of the year. This is with the hope that looking deeper inside will help me communicate with my fractured bits of self. I have PTSD and my disassociation has been out of control for years. My hope is with this work and the help of corresponding dieties and architypes I may begin putting the jigsaw puzzle back together.
Also, I plan to really stretch my tarot and divination creativity.
I am re-devoting myself to my craft – I am using A spell-a-day to keep myself in the Witchy mindset.
There was tough competition, but my favorite magical read of the last year was Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby, which had been on my to-read shelf for ages. It delightfully and seriously engaged both my academic and witchy interests, introduced me to the delicious expression “encounter narrative,” and gave me all kinds of food for thought about the universality and deep emotional experience of visionary traditions.
As for new goals for the coming year, I am branching out to explore the prospect of practice within a tradition group, as well as tackling another behemoth of my to-read shelf: Lynn Thorndike’s History of Magic and Experimental Science. I don’t know if I can manage all eight volumes in one year, but I’ll cram as many centuries into 365 days as I can!
Happy new year, everybody!
The book I keep dipping into is Benebell Wen’s The Tao of the Craft. It is so impressively meticulous, I’ve got a ton of things in there to keep me quite busy for the foreseeable future.
“Go deeper” is my plan for the year. I’ll be focusing in on areas I feel like I have familiarity in and try to see how I can build upon what I have. LOL, it’s going to be an exercise in discipline to keep myself to the plan I created for myself, but I’m excited to see how it goes.
Oooo! Favorite witchy read this past year has to be Odin: Meeting the Norse Allfather by Morgan Daimler and my goal for the year is to get this gosh darn book I’ve been working on through the publishing door by fall. I’m not sure how well a book on traditional witchcraft in America from a mixed-raced perspective will do but my heart is in it so wish me luck ^_^
Oooh! That’s exciting! I would LOVE to read a book by you, Via Hedera! When you get a bit closer to publishing would you consider coming on the show? I love your scholarship blended with personal experience in the writings on your website.