Writing

Four years before Salem, a thirteen-year-old in Boston gave a performance so convincing that the minister who wrote it down believed every word of it. The woman it hanged was the last person executed for witchcraft in that city.

Two people, a cord and a circle of witnesses: what a handfasting is, where it comes from, what the colours mean, and a ceremony you can use as it stands.

A reading almost never fails because of the cards. After more than forty years, here is where it usually goes wrong — and how to spot it before you pay.

Your sister argues with every card, a friend keeps pulling until she hears what she wants. It doesn't mean you did it wrong — you're reading for real people.

I studied Ted Bundy as a case study while he was still alive on death row and still saying nothing. Fifty-two years on, DNA has closed one of the blank lines on the page I was reading.

Free readings are the quickest way to learn and the quickest way to burn out. A practice that lets you keep being generous without emptying yourself.