Light After the Longest Night

Episode 4: Light After the Longest Night

As this goes live, we’re just after the longest (ish) night of the year at the Winter Solstice.

In this episode of Living Irish Witchcraft, Lora O’Brien reflects on the winter solstice as it’s lived in Irish practice, not as a fixed date or a spectacle, but as a turning point marked by patience, attention, and responsibility.

Drawing on decades of keeping vigil through the dark and greeting the returning sun, Lora explores how Irish witchcraft understands darkness, endurance, and the slow return of light. This is not about forcing hope or bypassing hardship, but about recognising when the conditions for change begin to form.

The episode also offers a simple, grounded light working, rooted in Irish ethics, focused not on personal gain, but on clarity, responsibility, and acting with integrity as the light returns.

Today’s Practice

A quiet solstice light working using a single flame or steady light, centred on responsibility, clarity, and ethical action rather than wish fulfilment or manifestation.

Free resource: Magic for Social Change

If you want to explore how Irish witchcraft can be used thoughtfully and ethically in the wider world, you can download Lora’s free PDF guide:

Magic for Social Change: A Short Practice Pack for Irish Witchcraft
https://irishpagan.school/magic-toolkit 

This free resource offers practical magical approaches grounded in Irish values of responsibility, community, and right relationship.

About the Podcast

Living Irish Witchcraft is an Irish Pagan School production, sharing culturally rooted Irish witchcraft with clarity, ethics, and lived practice.

For this episode, shoutout to youtube @user-yc9vx3nz5z who correctly pointed out that it's not safe to practice witchcraft everywhere in the world, and we need to acknowledge our privilege on that.