Kael’s Corner is the editorial side of My Cousin’s Coven—a place for essays, commentary, seasonal reflections, coven observations, and the occasional subject that doesn’t belong in the permanent reference library. The voice here is more personal and immediate, while still drawing on the research, practice, and perspective behind MCC.
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Welcome to my corner of My Cousin’s Coven. Most of the pages across MCC are built slowly and deliberately. They are researched, revised, organized, and designed to remain useful over time. Kael’s Corner is a little different. This is where I can step out from behind the larger site, pull up a chair, and speak…
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“Love, unconquered in the fight … no immortal can escape thee” — Sophocles, Antigone, translated by R. C. Jebb. Love brings people to witchcraft with some of their most vulnerable questions. Will someone choose me? Can this relationship recover? Is there still a road back to the person I miss? Behind a request for a…
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Living in a Magical World Most of a witch’s life is not spent doing witchcraft. It is spent being a witch. That may sound obvious, but I think there is something important in it. Formal practice has its place, but a magical life cannot exist only when we have deliberately stopped everything else to perform…
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Every September, the year comes to a curious threshold. Day and night approach balance at the autumn equinox, but they do not remain there. Almost as soon as they meet, the balance begins to tip and the longer nights return. Within the modern Pagan Wheel of the Year, we call this second harvest Mabon –…
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Pagan Ethics, Religious Freedom & the Cost of Staying Quiet Every few months, somewhere in the witchy corners of the internet, somebody announces that they are tired of politics being dragged into witchcraft. “I came here for spells, not politics.” “Why does everything have to be political?” “Can’t we just practice our religion and leave…
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Religious freedom is easy to support in the abstract. Most people will say they believe in it, and in principle it sounds wonderfully uncomplicated. The trouble begins when somebody else’s religion appears in the workplace, the classroom, the public square, the hospital room, the military, the prison system, or the neighborhood. A familiar prayer may…
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One of the most common ways people begin building a spell is by reaching immediately for correspondences. What herb should I use? What color candle? Which crystal? What moon phase? Which oil, sigil, spirit, or planetary influence belongs to this kind of working? Those questions matter, but they usually come after a more important one:…
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Discernment does not weaken our belief in signs. It helps us recognize the ones that matter. ✦ I believe in signs. I believe gods, spirits, ancestors, and other presences can communicate through symbols, dreams, divination, unusual encounters, repetition, and meaningful timing. Learning to notice these things is one of the strengths of a witch. But…
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Practice, presence, and power in uncertain times There are times when the world seems to shift beneath us. The news becomes difficult to absorb, political conflict sharpens, prices rise, communities fracture, and private burdens continue alongside public ones. Before we have recovered from one concern, another has taken its place. In those moments, I naturally…