Shapeshifting is a vastly underestimated magic considering how common it is. You have already done it so many times in your life. Utterly and completely changed your shape, I mean. Grew a limb back when your life had cut it off, sometimes a whole organ. Sprouted wings when you needed to fly. A mermaid’s tale when freediving in the deeper currents of your life. Inhabited the guise or form of another creature outside your own, to charm or to menace.

It is no surprise to anyone that I love Friday the 13th, but to have it arrive the day before my annual Valentine’s Day rant? Chef’s kiss. We are certainly floating in a sea of confected stories here at the end of the world as we know it. Friday the 13th is our day, witches and wannabes. Always has been, which is why it has come to be associated with the implied darkness of all things occult.

It seeems entirely appropriate for Lammas that I have become an insufferable breadmaker. Finally I get it and simultaneously I now want to make every kind of bread there is and roll it warm in a tea towel and arrive with a long flat knife and good butter. I have never been a baker, though I am a very regular roaster. Not a cakemaker but well known to whip up a formidable pav that would make your grandmother weep for the old desserts, made with sugar and love instead of chia and control.

There are just so many places we lost our way.

It’s our birthday, witches!

This Coven Electric and my Patreon platform, which has bloomed The Channel and so very many mooners and spells, has just entered its 7th year! There are vast changes afoot, new tiers and a whole lot more magic coming your way.

Witch School is here. And I could not think of a more auspicious window to fling open the doors to my very own mystery school.

After many years of walking the wheel with witches in the Coven Electric community, Kerrie is offering a deeper experience with the art, practice and devotion of witchcraft through a series of six monthly online workshops.