My Ritual - Magical Thinking

Originally posted May 20, 2020I have been listening to this album in pieces over the past few months while immersing myself in the world of witchcraft and magic but I finally sat down and listened to it in its entirety. While many individual artists have contributed to my love of magical music, in this case it’s a collection of artists and their label, Eighth Tower Records, that takes the focus of black magic and witchcraft into the world of dark ambient in order to transport us to the land of the United Kingdom. They do this across the centuries and...

April 22, 2020 Today’s altar is dedicated to Earth Day. It’s grounded in the Spiral Goddess, an ancient pagan goddess of the earth who holds a hematite in her hands allowing us to strengthen our connection to earth and each other through her. She’s supported on the left by the Tortoise which personifies water, the moon, the Earth, and immortality. The Tortoise is also associated with Creation and it is believed to bear the burden of the whole world on its back. On the right she is joined by the frog noted for its ability to live between worlds and...

On April 15th, The Morrigan first appeared in the MyRitual store.  This was a magical event.   The Morrígan also appears in texts of the Mythological Cycle. In 12th-century pseudohistorical compilation the Lebor Gabála Érenn ("The Book of the Taking of Ireland"), she is listed among the Tuatha Dé Danann as one of the daughters of Ernmas, granddaughter of Nuada.

Over the course of the winter, which is when we were first starting to design the new line of MyRitual Magical Things, we started working with a vegetable/plant based 3D printing filament that when printed had some of the visual properties of selenite and also resembled snow and ice.  In this series, we found that three of our pieces translated best and were likely perfect for a gamut of winter-y celebrations spanning from after Samhain to Imbolc.  Several of these have already been cleansed and they were all ready to go to our retail partner when the COVID-19 lockdown set...