First, Lister explains, it has less to do with Wicca and more to do with connection and trust in one’s self. According to family lore, she once saved the life of a dying horse that, after she pressed her palms to its flank, stood up and trotted happily away.

Just remember to also heal yourself, for the greatest source of magic you have is within you – always.Spells and circles don't need to be cast in the middle of a dark wood at midnight, and magic rituals can be performed just as effectively in the comfort of your bedroom. It reads, “Witches are your millennial co-workers doing tarot card readings on their lunch breaks, and professional colleagues encouraging you to join them for a New Moon ceremony aimed at “career success.

On the one end of the political spectrum, you get the anti-vaxx movement; on the other, climate change deniers.This is a chill pill for the frenemy who has a penchant for spreading rumours, or a colleague who can’t stop stealing your ideas. Anthony Burgess’s slim volume about a violent near-future where aversion therapy is used on feral youth who speak Nadsat and commit rape and murder, is a dystopian masterpiece. Evelyn Waugh bottles the intoxicating vapour of a vanished era in this novel about middle-class Charles Ryder, who meets upper-class Sebastian Flyte at Oxford University in the 1920s. Even if you’re the sweetest little white witch around, you will make people nervous because you threaten every limiting belief about human power. Different traditions use different objects and methods for casting a circle, but it's not important whether you want to use candles, stones, chalk lines or sticks to create your spell-casting circle, what matters is intent.

Some authors are known to be, at best, problematic and mistaken, and at worst, willfully ignorant and deliberately misinformative.Standing in the light of a full moon to recite our resolutions may be harmless, but as a society we shun science at our peril.