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A chair pulled up to the fire

7th October 2026 'Hallowe'en was preeminently a commemoration of the dead, a time when ghosts and fairies were unusually active, the whole of the world of the supernatural astir and the dead returned to their earthly homes.' - E. Estyn Evans, 'Irish Folk Ways' This particular folklorist puts Hall...

by Lora O'Brien — Oct 07, 2026 ancestors beginners charms free seasonal

A Spell for Sharing

26th September 2026 "every family... at least of the ordinary sort of people, kill a sheep, and bestow the greatest part of it upon relieving the poor." - Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland, summarised in the Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society The twenty ninth of September falls thr...

by Lora O'Brien — Sep 26, 2026 abundance charms growth seasonal

What the shell is for

September 2026 "The nine hazels of Crimall the wise Drop their fruits where the wellspring lies Through the power of magic they stay, Under a dark druidic spray." - from Sinann II in the Metrical Dindshenchas Mid September has the hazels still at work on their nuts, since the crop doesn't come ri...

by Lora O'Brien — Sep 12, 2026 charms grounding growth seasonal

How knowledge settles for ya

September 2026 (Free Post) "one of several hymns and charms cited in one of the medieval Irish metrical tracts as to be learned in a student fili's twelfth and final year." - from Celtic Curses by Bernard Mees 12 years learning things by heart, that means! September is a learning month (in relati...

by Lora O'Brien — Sep 01, 2026 beginners charms free learning seasonal

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

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

Clearing what the winter left behind

“I smite his sickness,I conquer wounds.” - from the St Gall Incantations March has an edge to it. The days are stretching, the land is waking, and the body often feels restless before the mind catches up. This is the month of hares here in Ireland, when you start to see them out in the fields, ...

by Lora O'Brien — Mar 15, 2026 charms seasonal