🌊 BONS 2026 - Best of the North Shore Voting is OPEN 🎉 🐚The Sea Wych Salem is honoured to be nominated for Best of the North Shore in two categories for 2026 - Handmade Gifts and Tourist Attraction! If you've visited us to make a spell jar at our spell jar bar, purchased one of the Sea Wych's handcrafted items (or an item handcrafted by a local or small artist in our shop which is...most of what we carry), or attended a workshop with us, please vote! We have made it our mi

It's a grey and raw March day here in Salem. The sky hasn't fully decided whether it wants to rain, snow, or simply pelt us with little ice pellets, so it seems to have decided to do all three at once. That's Mother Nature's prerogative - for decades past, March was like this. Winter fighting to hang on just a little bit longer, and Spring trying to push Winter out and away, so we could get on with the business of new growth. Despite today's wintry weather, this coming Sunday

Winter Island, Salem - Waikiki Beach in January Today dawned overcast and cold (20F/-6C) as is to be expected in New England during the winter months. I checked the tide tables for the day which is something that I do, and annotate every day, and realised that it's king tide time here. King tides are higher than normal highs, and lower than normal lows. In fact, the first time I ever saw a low king tide, the ocean was so far out that I couldn't see it at all. I stood on the b

2025 is (finally) coming to a close. It's been a long year for many of us, especially here in the US. To be perfectly honest, I was on the fence as to whether I would even write this post. It was a toss up between this, or simply welcoming January without comment to the year just gone by. Because I am a witch, and an elemental one at that, and because I emphasize balance in my practise and my writing about this craft, I decided that it would be disingenuous and imbalanced to