Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

Big Dwag still hasn’t found a new job though he is looking daily. If anyone knows of a remote bookkeeping or secretarial job please email me at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com please. As I am looking for an at home job. Due to my now physical limitations I can no longer hold a job I would need to leave home and go to daily even part time. After we pay this month’s Jeep payment we will basically be broke and not able to afford next month’s rent. If sadness, worry, and stress energy come through my posts this is why. I apologize if it effects any of you.

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

A Little Humor for Your Day – A Letter From A Third Grade Teacher Sent Home To Pagan Parents

Lady A had a wonderful sense of humor even when it came to witchcraft. I hope this bring you some laughs today as it did for me.

A Letter From A Third Grade Teacher Sent Home To Pagan Parents

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Thomas,

I write this letter in concern of your daughter, Aradia Moon. Please don’t take this the wrong way, however, although she is a straight A student and a very bright child, she has some strange habits that I feel we should address.

Every morning before class, she insists on walking around the room with her pencil in the air. She says she is “drawing down the moon.” I told her art class is in an hour and to please refrain until then to do any drawing.

And speaking of art class, whenever she draws a night sky, she insists on drawing little circles around all the stars and people dancing on the ground. And that brings up dancing, I had to stop her twice for taking off her clothes during a game of Ring Around the Rosey! By the way, what does “skyclad” mean?

Aradia has no problem with making friends. I always find her sitting outside during recess with her friends sitting around her in a circle. She likes to share her juice and cookies. It is nice how she wants no one to ever thirst or hunger. However, when I walked over to see what they were doing, she jumped up and told me to stop, pulled out a little plastic knife and started waiving it in front of me. I thought this a bit dangerous, so I took her to the Principal’s Office. She explained to the Principal that she was “opening the circle” to let me in. She also said that her Mommy and Daddy always told her not to play or run with an “athame” in her hand, that she could put someone’s eye out. I don’t know what an “athame” is, but I’m glad she keeps it at home.

As for stories, your daughter tends to make up some whoppers. Just yesterday while I was talking sternly to Tommy Johson and shaking my finger at him, he started screaming and ran from the room. When I finally caught him, he told me Aradia told him and the rest of the class that the last time I shook my finger at someone, they caught the chicken pox. I explained to him that the Sally Jones incident was just a coincidence, and that things like that don’t really happen.

One of the strangest things that happened was when I asked the children to bring in Halloween decorations for the classroom. Aradia brought in salt, incense, and her  family album. I see she has quite a sense of humour.

One of Aradia’s worst habits is that she is very argumentative. We were discussing what the Golden Rule was (Do Unto Others as you would have them Do Unto You), she firmly disagreed with me and stated that it was “Do As you Will, but Harm None” and she will not stop saying “So Mote It Be” after she reads aloud in class. I try to correct her on these matters and she got very angry. She pointed her finger at me and mumbled something under her breath.

In closing, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, I would like to set up a parent/teacher conference with you sometime next week to discuss these matters. I would like to see you sooner, but I have developed an irritating rash that I am quite worried about.

With deep concerns, Mrs. Livingston

P.S. Blessed Be. I understand this is a greeting or closing from your country that your daughter informs me is polite and correct.

I hope the rest of your and your family have a day and evening that is relaxing, filled with fun, laughter, and love. Always remember to take a little me time every day to recharge yourself!

Merry part until we merry meet again!

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

(One Person VIew) 24 Powerful Crystals For Positive Energy – The “How To” Guide Part 3

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24 Powerful Crystals For Positive Energy – The “How To” Guide

How to Cleanse Crystals For Positive Energy?

Crystals for positive energy are working really hard to bring you the much-needed positive vibrations you need. However, constant cleansing, absorbing, and transmuting of positive energy can cause their own energies to become toxic and unhelpful.

Keep Stones Clean With Warm, Soapy Water

Empower With The Sun

Nurture With The Moon

Master The Art of Smudging

Use Natural Water Sources

Use Salt or Brown Rice

Utilize Specific Crystals

Consider Sound Vibrations

Cleansing Visualizations

Final Thoughts

Positivity is an essential ingredient for growth, happiness, satisfaction, and gaining the most out of your life. And healing crystals are an effective and unique way in order to achieve this.

The above-mentioned crystals for positive energies have their own vibrational energies and shall promote optimism, joy, gratitude, protection, and resilience in order to help you stay positive in life.

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

This saying really spoke to me as I was looking for something to post for this one today.

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it. If you want a friend to talk to please email me and I will get back to you as soon as possible. We can do it by email or audio or video Skype. I am an ordained minster the reason this might be important to you is I cannot discuss anything we talk about with anyone else (even Big Dawg, my husband)

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

If you want to see information on any tradition of witchcraft, herbs, flowers, a Goddess or a God, or anything pertaining to any tradition of witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and positive things!

Blessed be

The February Birth Flowers are Violet, Iris and Primrose

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From monthlybirthstones.com

The birth flowers for February are pretty violets and showy irises, as well as dainty primroses. These all start to flower in early spring in the northern hemisphere.

Violet

The primary February birthday flower is the Violet, also known as a pansy. The violet group of flowers has up to 600 types that are found mainly in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

Violets start flowering in spring and can last throughout the summer. Colors include violet as well as shades of blue, yellow, white and cream.

The blue violet is the state flower of Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Illinois, and New Jersey, USA.

The language of flowers introduced in Victorian times associates violets with faithfulness, humility and chastity.

Iris

The second February flower is the Iris, a group of up to 300 types named after the Greek word for a rainbow, which also aptly describes the wide variety of colors.

Irises grow naturally in the drier and colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere but are also widely cultivated due to their large, showy flowers.

Iris is the national flower of Croatia and is one of the state flowers of Tennessee, USA.

Primrose

Another birth flower for February is the Primrose which flowers in early spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and indeed its name means ‘first’ or ‘early’.

The flowers of most primrose types are yellow but there are also white, red, pink and purple varieties.

April 19 is traditionally Primrose Day in the UK, commemorating the death of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Astronomy Picture of the Day For January 2026

Source: apod.nasa.gov

2026 January 31: Artemis I: Flight Day 13
2026 January 30: NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
2026 January 29: NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans
2026 January 28: M78: Reflecting Blue in a Sea of Red
2026 January 27: Orions Treasures over Snowy Mountains
2026 January 26: NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas
2026 January 25: Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
2026 January 24: Earthset from Orion
2026 January 23: Planetary Nebula Abell 7
2026 January 22: LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion
2026 January 21: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb
2026 January 20: Io in True Color
2026 January 19: CTB 1: The Medulla Nebula
2026 January 18: Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope
2026 January 17: Apollo 14: A View from Antares
2026 January 16: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
2026 January 15: Plato and the Lunar Alps
2026 January 14: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
2026 January 13: A Solar Eruption from SDO
2026 January 12: Meteor Dust
2026 January 11: M104: The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared
2026 January 10: Jupiter with the Great Red Spot
2026 January 09: Ice Halos by Moonlight and Sunlight
2026 January 08: IC 342: Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis
2026 January 07: Simeis 147: The Spaghetti Nebula Supernova Remnant
2026 January 06: Jupiters Clouds in High Definition from Juno
2026 January 05: The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble
2026 January 04: The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
2026 January 03: Full Moonlight
2026 January 02: NanoSail D2
2026 January 01: Auroral Corona

Stones of Imbolc c. 2019

Brigid, Celtic Goddess of Imbolc c. 2016

 

Brigid, Celtic Goddess of Imbolc

Brigit is the central Irish Goddess. She is known as Brigantia in England and Bride in Scotland. She rules metal work and smithy, fire, poetry, midwifery and martial arts–but is primarily known as a major Mother Goddess. Brigit is a face of the Triple Goddess, and able to see all–often represented by an ever watchful eye. The three heart-shaped leaves of the shamrock recall the magical Celtic number of three, as well as the number of Brigit’s faces. From nine to Nineteen priestesses once tended an undying fire in her name at Kildare. Brigid is so central to Ireland that the newly converted people would not give her up, so her name metamorphosed into St. Bridgid, who in Irish Christian myth acts as tender and supportive friend of Mary and as the midwife at Christ’s birth. Barbara G. Walker writes that to the Irish people, however, she continued to be a Queen of Heaven and the mother of all the deities of the new religion. As the Saint, she also matched wits with St. Patrick, who is as mythical as she. At times they seem to be consorts, at others, adversaries. It cannot have helped their relationship that Patrick is known for ridding Ireland of snakes, and since Bridgid the saint descended from a pagan goddess and priestess persona, whose sacred healing totem is the snake. So when St. Patrick says he is ridding the isle of snakes, what he means is he is ridding it of pagans. Nevertheless, Patricius and Bridgid were often considered the primal Mother and Father, and were supposedly buried together at Derry Down.

January 22, 2026 Daily Horoscope

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Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence for Monday

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The Witches Correspondences for Monday

Day: Monday ( Moon-day)

Planet: Moon

Colors: Silver and White and Grey

Crystals: Moonstone, Pearl, Aquamarine, Silver, Selenite

Aroma: Jasmine, Lemon, Sandalwood, Moon Oil, African violet, Honeysuckle, Myrtle, Willow, and Wormwood

Herb: Moonwart

The sacred day of the Moon, personified by such goddesses as Selene, Luna, Diana, and Artemis. The Moon is ruler of flow affecting the changeable aspects of people. If a full moon falls on a Monday, its powers are at theirmmost potent. Magical aspects: peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friendships, psychic awareness, purification, and fertility

Monday is ruled by the moon – an ancient symbol of mystery and peace. Monday is a special day for mothers as the cycle of the moon has long been associated with the female menstrual cycle. Those wishing to conceive a baby would be wise to try on a Monday as the magic of motherhood is strong and pregnancy is in the air.

This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving agriculture, animals, female fertility, messages, reconciliation’s, theft, voyages, dreams, emotions, clairvoyance, home, family, medicine, cooking, personality, merchandising, psychic work, Faerie magic, and Goddess rituals.