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 beach that day...

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 quietly shut the...

We have come full circle - another cycle of the wheel of the year closes and at the same time, begins again. Darkness envelopes the land now. The shortest day and longest night is upon us and for many people, it's impossible to really see the return of the light until sometimes toward the end of February or even mid-March. Yet by the first week of January, the sun is setting a little bit later, rising a little bit earlier. As we enter the coldest season here in the northern hemisphere, we are...