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Simple Irish Spells

Simple Irish Spells is a paid, bi‑weekly email newsletter written and sent to you directly from Irish Witch Lora O’Brien, giving you exclusive lessons, simple spell walkthroughs, and grounded native Irish Witchcraft and Folk Magic insights you won’t see on YouTube or socials. Subscribe monthly or annually (1 month free!) to get practical, step by step spells and guidance for working real Irish magic in your everyday life, rooted in native perspective, lived experience, living tradition, and clear simple actions you can take straight away without overwhelm or rigmarole.

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Putting the hare out of the corn

August 2026 "The last bit of corn in the last of the farmer's fields was the visible symbol of the end of the harvest, and the cutting of this last bit was, all over Ireland, attended with some ceremony." - Kevin Danaher, The Year in Ireland The end of August is when the year stops being about ...

by Lora O'Brien — Aug 23, 2026 charms clearing growth seasonal

Who you work beside

August 2026 "Gathering folks together is an aspect of this time that really should not be ignored." - Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch by Lora O'Brien August is the month where the truth of the year becomes visible, what grew and what didn't, what carried through on its own and what needed ...

Aug 17, 2026 beginners charms free harvest seasonal

Keeping a small light

July 2026 "It was the ambition of every housewife that the store of food from the previous harvest should last until the new harvest was ripe." - from The Year in Ireland by Kevin Danaher From the outside July looks like the easy part of the year, with the long evenings (grand stretch) and the st...

by Lora O'Brien — Jul 25, 2026 candle endurance lúnasa seasonal

Words to carry with you

July 2026 "A charm against sickness is an amulet worn round the neck, enclosing a piece of paper, on which is written the first three verses of St. John's Gospel." - Lady Wilde, Irish Cures, Mystic Charms and Superstitions July is the long middle of things, the stretch where the first push is spe...

by Lora O'Brien — Jul 11, 2026 charm endurance free writing

When you just have to keep going

5 July 2026 "the step from Charm to Prayer is a short and easy one." - Eleanor Hull, quoted in Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland July can be deceptively hard, because the light is strong and the days are long, so from the outside it can look like everything should be easier by now. This is...

Jul 01, 2026 beginners endurance free knots

Three times round the flame

Summer Solstice 2026 "Fire is the holiest of all things. Walk three times round a fire on St. John's Eve, and you will be safe from disease for all that year." - Lady Wilde, Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions (1887) The 21st of June is the longest day of the year, the point where the l...

Jun 20, 2026 blessing growth seasonal

Name what sustains you

June 2026 "Thanks and praises and Glory be to You, God, and to your Holy Good Mother for your gifts and graces to me all this day and night." - from a folk prayer in the Schools' Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD. June is the month when the year's growth becomes something you can actu...

Jun 13, 2026 abundance growth seasonal

Taking strength where you can

June (free post) "until heaven and earth may be mingled together, and until sun and moon may be mingled together." - from Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland June brings a different quality of strength, not the sharp kind that pushes through resistance, but the steady kind that accumulates q...

by Lora O'Brien — Jun 07, 2026 beginners free seasonal

Salt at the Threshold

24 May 2026 'Certain hags in Wales, as well as in Ireland and Scotland, changed themselves into the shape of hares, that, sucking teats under this counterfeit form, they might stealthily rob other people’s milk.' Giraldus Cambrensis, 12th century, cited in 'The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare' by S...

May 24, 2026 charms growth protection seasonal sis

Essential Tips for Simple Irish Spells

Start with Real Need, Not Drama Before you light a candle or mutter a word of Irish, ask yourself what actually needs to change in your real life. Are you looking for a job, trying to sleep, needing protection, or just bored and wanting a bit of excitement. Magic that comes from boredom tends to ...

by Lora O'Brien — Apr 26, 2026 beginners free

When it keeps slipping away

April 2026 "I hinder the blood, I slay the disease." — from a 15th-century Irish medical manuscript, RIA ms 24 B 3. Trans. David Stifter. Irish healing charms were rarely vague about what they were doing. They named the condition directly, stated the intention clearly, and worked to stop whatev...

by Lora O'Brien — Apr 25, 2026 charms

What you plant now, tends you later

April 2026 "Anything sown during a full moon was supposed to grow wild." — from the Schools' Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD April is when the ground actually receives what you put into it. Not the gesture of intention in February or the stirring of March, but the actual moment wh...

by Lora O'Brien — Apr 11, 2026 charms growth

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