Setting the Extra Place
28 October 2026 · Samhain · by Rowan
Every year the plate at the end of the table gets a little fuller, and every year I understand a little better why we do this. On the dumb supper, and the one guest who always comes.
From the Hearth
Notes from the people who keep the fire: what the Sabbats were actually like this year, what the garden said, what went wrong in ritual and what we learned from it. Written by Hearthkeepers in turn, under our Craft names.
Entries
What the Garden Taught Me About Lughnasadh
3 August 2026 · Lughnasadh · by Wren
The first harvest is not the big one. It is the one that tells you whether there will be a big one. On beans, failure, and the loaf that was mostly oats.
A Circle in a Studio Apartment
14 April 2026 · Practice · by Ash
Three paces across, a cat who will not stay outside the circle, and a downstairs neighbour who thinks I am into interpretive dance. On casting sacred space where there is no space.
Keeping the Flame on a Tuesday
2 February 2026 · Imbolc · by Bríd
My shift is the seventh night, which falls on a Tuesday more often than seems statistically fair. On what a flamekeeper actually does for four hours with a candle.
Writing for the journal
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