New book on the altar today: Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body by Laura Tempest Zakroff. I've been circling this one for a while, and it finally arrived. Here's the premise that pulled me in, right from the opening: you are your own most important magical tool. Not the deck, not the herbs, not the candles — the body. Zakroff maps the witch's power through the physical form itself, treating the body as the instrument every working actually runs through. Chapter one sets that table: before you reach for anything on the shelf, you reach for yourself. Which...if you've been floating in water with me, breathing through the Descent, learning where the reactive horse lives in your own chest...you already know in your bones. This just gives it a map. I'll be pulling from it in posts to come. Consider this the first torch lit on a new path. 🗝️ Have you read this one? Or is there a book that changed how you sit inside your own body? Tell me below — I'm building the reading pile. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 #HekateanHealing #AnatomyOfAWitch #MagicalBody 📚 The book: Laura Tempest Zakroff, Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body (Llewellyn, 2021)

We just crossed the Strawberry Moon on Monday. So this week the thicket picks itself. Strawberries! It’s the little heart-shaped berry the whole moon was named for. My little patch has already flowered, fruited and gone, but the photos are here to stay! Attached. That brief timing is the whole point. Strawberry is the plant of first ripeness. 🍓The Myth Strawberry has belonged to the love-goddesses: Aphrodite and Venus, Freyja in the North, because its heart shape and its red juice. The Roman poets knew the wild kind well. Virgil calls it humi nascentia fraga or "strawberries born of the earth”, and warns berry-pickers to watch for the "cold adder in the grass." Ovid lists mountain strawberries among the wild foods of the Golden Age. Pliny catalogued it too. A plant gathered low, right at the surface of the ground. Which is the Hekatean part. The berry hugs the soil, serpent coiled beside it, acting as the liminal point where the underworld breathes up through the dirt. That's Hekate Chthonia's territory, (remember, this is the epithet of our approaching phase of Pluto Retrograde). Venus gets the red heart of the fruit; Hekate gets the dark ground it grew from. On the year's lowest full moon, both are in the berry.❤️ 🍓The Medicine The whole plant works though, not just the berry. The fruit is rich in vitamin C, ellagic acid, and antioxidants. It's cooling, cleansing, gentle on the system. But the real herbalist's treasure is the leaf: dried and brewed as a tea, it's a mild astringent and gentle blood tonic, traditionally used to calm diarrhea, soothe sore mouths and gums as a rinse, and settle the nerves before bed. The root, harvested in fall, was dried for the same astringent gut and gum work. A cooled leaf infusion on a cloth even eases sunburn (which I’m actually using right now, after that visit to the pool, ouch 😓). It is one of the safest, gentlest plants in the garden. Allergy is the only real caution. 🍓The Magic Venus-ruled, water-element, feminine— strawberry is a plant of love, fertility, dedication, and first fruits. It reproduces by sending out runners, giving of itself until the young plants root. That's exactly its lesson: dedication to what you're trying to bring forth, even before the ground looks ready. Folk tradition says a shared strawberry, or a split double berry given to another, seals love between two people. It’s why so many people share chocolate covered strawberries on Valentine’s Day here in the States— so sappy, but actual legitimate magic.

The deck is shuffled and the crossroads are open. This is our one day a week for card readings, so if there's a question sitting in your chest, today's the day to let the Oracle speak to it. Now, readings! Hekate Enodia, She of the Way, has 60 doors in the Oracle of the Hekatean Path. One of them has your name on it. And on a day like today, the door She opens might not be the one you were heading toward. It'll be the one the road was bending you to. 🗝️ Drop a number from 1–60 in the comments. I'll shuffle and count to find the message She left at the wayside shrine for you. Then I'll pull a supporting card from the Witches Tarot to light the way forward— because She doesn't just show you the door. She hands you the torch. You don't have to share your question if it's private. Hold it in your mind as you choose, and trust the number that pulls at you. First come, first drawn. I'll work through the comments as they land today, in between my errands and Tuesday responsibilities. They may come in slow, but every reading will come. 🔦 Torchlight For Today: "Hekate met her, holding a torch in her hands… 'Swiftly I tell you all the truth.'" — the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, where Hekate comes to grieving Demeter with light and word of where her daughter has gone, the torch-bearer who meets you in the dark and tells you where the road went 👇 Drop your number. Let Her of the Way show you what the reroute has been bending you toward. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 📚 The decks: Oracle of the Hekatean Path by Kenn Payne & Chris Butler | Witches Tarot by Ellen Dugan

It's here, loves, and it's yours to download, print, and carry into circle. The full Hekatean Strawberry Moon Esbat that I was working on all of yesterday— is now live here in the community as a printable PDF. This is the complete rite, start to close, built for the year's lowest, ripest moon: the first full moon of summer, the Mead Moon, the saffron Krokopeplos Moon, when Hekate's light bends close to the earth and walks the threshold between sky and land. It’s known locally as the Strawberry Moon, so I’ve honored the ancestors of the land here in Michigan with a strawberry offering. Inside the PDF: 🌙 The full ritual, opening to closing — casting, quarters, the works 🔑 Hekate Trimorphos at the center — three-formed, of the crossroads, key-bearer at the gate 🍓 A First-Fruit Offering working — name what's ripened in you since the dark, and set it on Her plate 🍯 Barley-and-honey cakes and wine, drawn straight from The Hekatean Kitchen (level 3 class) 📜 A land acknowledgment, a key-and-threshold Great Rite, and an opening you can adapt for solo OR coven Formatted clean so you can print it, mark it up, and bring it to the table. No fluff. No gatekeeping. Just a real, usable rite for your own grimoire. Love ya. 😉 ⏰ The Strawberry Moon peaked Monday, June 29 at 7:56 p.m. EDT — you’ve still got time to print, gather your cakes and wine, and prepare. Grab it now while the moon's full. 💬 Tell me below: 👇 are you working this one solo or with a coven this Strawberry Moon? And — if you're brave — what's ripened in you since the dark of the year? I'll be in the comments and working on the Tarot Tuesday post! 🌿 En Erebos, Phos. Love, Tirza 🌙🌿🖤

I love to divine for others. My main methods are tarot and oracle decks. I was just wondering if there’s a spot around here for trading readings?