Cooking with Dried Beans; Pandemic Cooking 3

So, you panicked and bought a bunch of dried beans, and now you’re trying to cook them. And what you’ve got there is a pot full of hard, gummy, possibly crunchy, nuggets of sadness. Hopefully you at least googled dried bean cooking before you got started, but if you didn’t, it’s ok. Failure and mistakes…

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Meat Tips; Pandemic Cooking 2

Pork and Beef are incredibly easy to prepare if you know a couple easy tricks. tip 1: season well. there is a trope in the home cooking world that white folks tend not to season our food. having eaten some home cooked meals from other families… it’s hard not to agree! don’t fear the seasoning….

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Pandemic Cooking 1: Freezer Burned Rescue

In times of stress and uncertainty, I suddenly become my Nana, and cook all the things. Here’s some wisdom from my Nana, and from experience, about how to deal with meat that’s freezer burned; you don’t need to throw it out, you can still salvage it!

Wheel of the Year Tarot Reading

Learn about the Wheel of the Year Tarot Reading! Why is a limited scope valuable, and how accurate is any tarot reading for the future?

Starting a Tarot Practice

Interested in starting a tarot practice? Get tips from an experienced reader, and get going on your relationship with the tarot!

Energy Work Basics

Learn about energy work, the basics and structure, and how to visualize and hold energy. Kitchen witchery, chaos magic, and ceremonial magic(k) forms!

Sigils and Magical Art

Learn how to create and use a sigil! From famous sigils in history to modern magical use, the basics of sigil construction are easy to learn and can take practice to master.

Karma in Paganism and Witchcraft

Karma is an idea co-opted by neo-pagans and modern witchcraft, yet it retains its Hindu roots. Learn why karma and mindfulness can be incompatible.

The History of Tarot

The history of the Tarot is rife with cultural appropriation, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find something useful in it.

Energetic Cleansing Methods

An expansion of a 2017 post on smoke cleansing, this time with more nuance and detail on energetic cleansing vs grounding and centering.