Wishlist Wednesday - The Magical Writing Grimoire by Lisa Marie Basile

    This week, for #WishlistWednesday I want to highlight a recently released book that is on my wish list.                                                  

  I love to write but I'm a little out of practice.  I have also wanted to put more effort into my Grimoire.  This book The Magical Writing Grimoire by Lisa Marie Basile seems like the perfect thing to get my creative juices flowing and make more time for my grimoire.  It has been getting rave reviews so far.  I love books, and any kind of book that can enhance my spiritual practice is high up on my list.  

Have you read this book?  If so, what are your thoughts on it?  Let me know in the comments or link to your review.

Amazon Description: "Part guided journaling practice, part interactive magical grimoire, The Magical Writing Grimoire shows you how to incorporate writing as a magical tool to create healing and amplify spell-casting.

Whenever and wherever you are, word magic is with you. During times of chaos or pain, or simply when you need a cosmic boost, writing can help. In fact, healers, therapists, and magical practitioners have long incorporated writing in their practices. From letter writing for creating closure to dream diaries, writing is a powerful process for moving your dreams into manifestation. 

The Magical Writing Grimoire approaches writing as a self-actualizing, intentional, and healing act. You will learn how to combine writing with ritual and magic for self-discovery, clarifying intentions, creating and making things happen, and manifestation. You will also be guided in how to create a personal grimoire—a magical book of self rituals, spells, and intentions. Each chapter contains writing prompts that also incorporate magical ritual and tools including working with crystals, spell incantation, or candle alchemy. Other rituals and prompts may be set up for certain moon phases or ask you to bury or burn a piece of paper.

Equal parts practical and inspiring, The Magical Writing Grimoire shows you how to wield your word as your wand."

What's on your wish list?

Interesting Intuitive Moments

My Mystical Book Club group is currently reading The Intuitive Way.  The book includes multiple journal exercises.  The first one is to tell stories of my most intriguing experiences with intuitive knowing.  I felt this would be a good blog entry as well, so am sharing here.  What are some of your most intriguing experiences with intuitive knowing?  Let me know in the comments. 

I have several experiences I would like to share today.  The first two occurred when I was about 7 or 8 years old.  I have an aunt, who was like a second mom to me growing up.  I was at her house every other weekend.  In my first experience, I did not want to go to her house, because I just knew we were going to get into an epic fight.  My mom made me go and assured me I was being silly.  I went, and we did have an epic fight.  It lead to me crying and asking for my mom to come get me.  I don’t even remember what the fight was about, just that it happened.  Is this intuition or self-fulfilling prophecy? 

The next experience with this aunt occurred around the same year.  My aunt was supposed to go out and meet friends or on a date.  I don’t remember which.  I felt very strongly that if she went out, something bad was going to happen.  I had fear and anxiety twisting in my stomach.  I told her that if she went out something bad was going to happen.  I cried and pleaded for her not to go.  She went anyway, I’m sure brushing off my statements as being overly emotional or just not wanting her to go.  I couldn’t sleep and I stayed up.  She didn’t come home at the time she told the babysitter.  I was crying again.  When she eventually came home, I found out that she had been in a car accident on the icy roads.   

My next experience occurred when I was about 13 or 14 years old.  My parents took a vacation and they got a friend from their church to stay with us kids.  One evening of the trip, I became anxious and told her that I had a bad feeling about something.  I didn’t know what, I just had a bad feeling.  Of course “having feelings” wasn’t acceptable to the church friend.  She called my parents, and I got in trouble for freaking out the babysitter.  Later that night, we got a phone call from someone saying that when we went to bed they were going to set our house on fire.  At the time, a bully on my bus would follow me home from the bus stop, telling me he was going to rape me.  I figure it was him trying to scare us.  No one set the house on fire, but the phone call alone was scary enough. 

The last story that sticks out in my mind when it comes to intuition occurred around the time I was 25 or 26.  My boyfriend at the time and I had just moved to a new neighborhood.  He had also switched departments at his job and would now be traveling for work.  On his first week out of town for work, my cousin who was visiting from out of town stayed with me the first 4 nights.  The last night I would be by myself.  That night I hung out in the living room quite late.  I was creeped out but I chalked it up to being in a new place and being alone at night for the first time in a long time.  Around 1:00 a.m. I finally dragged myself to bed.  However, since I was still creeped out, I left the stove light on, got my boyfriend’s gun and put it on my night table, and I didn’t turn on music or the fan, like I usually do.  I had trouble falling asleep but I must have eventually dozed off.  Around 3:00 a.m. I heard a very loud noise.  It sounded like rifle fire.  I got the gun, got low on the floor so I could see down the hallway and called my mom.  The noise happened again and she could hear it through the phone.  She said she was coming and told me to call the police.  I called the police, and waited crouching, for either my mom or the police to get there or for someone to come down my hallway.  My mom got their first, and I sprinted through the house – alert for potential dangers.  This was a corner unit and my mom came to the door where the driveway was.  My mom, brother and I were standing outside when the officer finally came.  He made us put our guns on the kitchen counter and come back outside.  At some point while he was talking to us, someone was in my house.  They stole my purse and some small items.  The noise I heard was them kicking in the other door.  The next day, we immediately started looking at Condos and Townhomes and I moved within a month.  This is probably one of the scariest things to happen to me.  As a result, I don’t enjoy being alone overnight.  I can only imagine what would have happened if they had gotten inside before the police came.   

So, those are some of my stories.  If you would like to share some of yours, I would love to hear them.  Comment below.   

April Spiritual Book Wrap Up

I am an avid reader and read something like 200 books a year.  On this blog, I will talk about books that relate to spiritual, paranormal, and witchcraft.  Since we are already into May, I will to a Wrap-Up of April witchy/spiritual reads.

 End of Days by Sylvia Browne  read April 1 to April 6. After being messaged multiple times about this book "predicting" Covid-19, I decided to read the book the book for myself, to read the "prophecy" in context to the whole book.  To be fair, I am not a fan of Sylvia Browne, because of the false information she has given the families of missing persons.  The first part of the book goes into the history of end of the world predictions.  Having been raised in a Christian faith that placed a lot of emphasis on the end of the world, this portion of the book was comforting to me - especially in light of the many people posting End of the World posts on Facebook (relating to Covid-19, locust plagues, fires, etc). End of the world predictions date back even before Christ. The second half of the book is Sylvia Browne's predictions.  She has crazy predictions that make no sense.  This book came out in 2008 and she starts predicting that as soon as 2010 we will start having these futuristic cures and crime fighting techniques that sound like something from a Philip K Dick novel.  Things that if she said would have happened in 2110 I might have believed her.  At this point many of the years she talks about have already passed and the predictions have not come true.  Addressing the Covid-19 prediction - the only part of it that is remotely true is that people will be wearing masks.  If you look at the epidemiology of the virus, it doesn't fit the rest of the prediction.  I rated the book 2 stars, solely for the first part of the book being informative.


 101 Ways to Find a Ghost by Melissa Martin Ellis read January 12 to April 12.  I got this book at a sale when our local bookshop was closing.  I am interested in paranormal investigation and have had many experiences with ghosts (something for another blog post, another time).  I was part of a local team where I live for a brief time before it fizzled out.  I may join (or maybe start) another team someday.  I think this book is a great resource to have if you are interested in paranormal investigation.  The author shares a lot of really good details about starting your own team, and all that this entails.  It includes how to find members for your team, forms to create, ways to advertise, ways to find places to investigate, and investigation techniques.  It would be an excellent resource for anyone looking to start their own team.  I rated it 5 stars.


 Welcoming the Unwelcome by Pema Chodron read April 4 to April 8.  This is my first book read by Pema Chodron.  She is Buddhist, and what she shared in the book was based on Buddhist philosophy.  I studied Buddhism in my early twenties and found a lot to it that is beautiful.  This book, which came out in 2019, is very relevant to the times we are in now.  I think it could be a good read for those that are struggling with these times of political unrest and an international pandemic.  Pema talks to us about recognizing the good in others and ourselves, about karma, and about using these difficult times as opportunities for growth.  She talks about seeing lots of things as little deaths, as a way to make us more comfortable with actual death.  That is a subject I would like to read more about.  I rated this book 4 stars.


 Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, PhD read April 13 to April 27.  This book was the book chosen for the Mystical Book Club I am part of. I don't want to be too critical because spiritual beliefs are subjective. I didn't like the authors tone. And though I believe in reincarnation, a lot of the things he talked about don't resonate with me at all. I thought that he was sometimes too pushy with his subjects, and he didn't really talk a lot about how these sessions could be used to help the person in their current lives....and sometimes he pushed them to find out information that was more for his benefit (his research) than actually helping the person. I thought he contradicted himself a lot as well. There was just a lot that didn't resonate with me and my beliefs and studies. Someone else may get a lot out of it. It's also a rather short book and it was not an easy read. It felt like I was slogging through it. Like I felt I had been reading forever and was only 20% through. I rated it 1.5 stars.


Weave the Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff read April 1 to April 13.  I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review on Netgalley.  I also purchased a hard copy of the book in July 2019 when I previously read it for a witchy book club.  The book club didn't survive but the things I learned in this book did.  I love that this book exists.  For so many people new to witchcraft, they may think Wicca is the only thing out there.  I've studies Wicca - but I am not Wiccan.  There are things I like about Wicca and other things that don't resonate.  Weave the Liminal is about the witchcraft that the author practices - Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft.  I dig it - because she tells you there is no one way to practice.  You can believe in deities or not.  You can be in a coven or not.  You can celebrate all the Sabbats or not.  She addresses all areas of witchcraft and tells you different ways of being.  She talks about being an ethical witch and witch etiquette.  She talks about our responsibilities and freedoms, and she does so in a way that you feel like you are talking to a friend.  I recommend this book to everyone that is interested in witchcraft - it's easy to read, friendly, and not bogged down with rules.  It emphasizes authenticity and responsibility.  I gave it 5 stars, and plan to reference it for years to come. 

Greetings and Salutations

Welcome to my blog.

I set up this blog, as a digital journal, to chronicle where I am, and where I am going on my spiritual journey.  I have made it my goal to live my best witchy life and to make the time for my spirituality and my practice.  I hope that this blog will help me stay focused, be an incentive to practice, and possibly meet some new friends along the way.

I am a witch.  I have one foot in the broom closet, and the other out.  Many in my family are very Christian, and would not be accepting.  Fortunately I do have friends, mentors, a few family members who know I'm pagan, and are super supportive and accepting.  It took awhile to find my tribe but they're some great people.  Hopefully I can expand my tribe through this blog.

Please feel free to comment and engage. If you have a blog I will check yours out as well.