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		<title>Auspicious Timing: Planets, Days &#038; Signs for Magick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When is the best time to cast a spell? Many witches align their work with planetary days, lunar phases, zodiac signs, and other natural rhythms. Understanding these cycles can help magickal intentions flow with the tides of the cosmos rather than against them.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crafting Change with Magickal Herbal Incense</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Loose herbal incense is one of the oldest tools in magickal practice. By blending herbs, resins, and bark with intention—and sometimes under auspicious planetary timing—witches create fragrances that shape the atmosphere of ritual and meditation. Here is how elemental incense blends work and how you can craft or work with them in your own practice.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Perfect Love &#038; Trust in an Age of Fear</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A witch’s ethical reckoning with modern America through the Nine Divine Love Conditions—REAL STAAR—and the challenge of living in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Triple Goddess as a Hermetic Key to the Mysteries</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2026/02/triple-goddess-hermetic-key/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Goddess Spirituality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Triple Goddess has never been as tidy as we pretend. Maiden, Mother, Crone may look like a clean three-act structure, but lived experience is far messier — and far more interesting. What if the ancient rhythm beneath her masks is not a rigid life-stage model, but a living cycle of Generation, Organization, and Dissolution? In this essay, I revisit the archetype, the debates around it, and the deeper current of magickal becoming that runs beneath the surface.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Elemental Witchcraft on The Occult Rejects Podcast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Western occultism has spent much of the last two centuries refining systems of analysis, hierarchy, and individual power. In my recent appearance on The Occult Rejects podcast, I explore why Elemental Witchcraft was written as a response to the next turn of that cycle — a movement away from separation and toward integration, cooperation, and relational magick. Drawing on Hermetic symbolism and the classical elements as modes of consciousness, this conversation looks at how witchcraft and ceremonial magic can function as complementary paths within a living, evolving occult tradition.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Imbolc Spell for a Burning World</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2026/01/imbolc-spell-burning-world/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Join me in this Imbolc Spell to restore justice in America. "I name what must fall, unbind what enslaves, restore what is just, to keep hope’s bright flame. SO MOTE IT BE!"]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lilith: First Woman, Demon, or Feminist Goddess?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2026/01/lilith-feminist-goddess/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introducing Heron Michelle's new devotional art for the Modern Witchcraft champion of women's bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, equality &#038; untamed feminine power! There are few figures in myth and mysticism as arresting and misunderstood as Lilith. Long dismissed in patriarchal traditions as a demon or night-spirit, modern devotees increasingly reclaim her as a primordial Dark Goddess of women’s empowerment, sexual sovereignty, and resistance — a figure who refuses domination and embodies the peak wildness of the night.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dark Moon Scorpio: Descent, Embodiment, and Return</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2025/11/dark-moon-scorpio-descent/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Dark Moon in Scorpio invites deep shadow work, reflection, and renewal. Explore how Proserpina, the Path of Embodiment, and the mysteries of transformation shape this powerful lunar tide in my Lunar Witchcraft system.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lunar Witchcraft News! Twelve Goddess Devotions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After eight years of research, I’ve submitted my second manuscript—The Pentacle Path Vol. 2: Lunar Witchcraft! This system explores twelve goddess allies across the zodiac, offering devotional seeds you can plant right now as the Moon flows through her cycle. Here’s a first look at the goddesses, their offerings, and the daily receptive acts that prepare us for deeper Esbat work in the year ahead.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Witch&#8217;s Funeral Rite For Release and Remembrance</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2025/11/witchs-funeral-rite/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heron Michelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Samhain is the Witch’s season of endings and beginnings — when we face death as transformation. This Witch’s Funeral Rite offers a sacred way to honor the Beloved Dead, release their ashes to the elements, and plant new life in their memory. A ceremony of remembrance, release, and rejuvenation at the turning of the year.]]></description>
		
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