Beltane is often packaged as a festival of fertility, maypoles, bonfires, sexual symbolism, and abundance. The Luck of May begins outside the door instead: with flowers at thresholds, a decorated May Bush, rain in the street, milk and butter, water and fire, lending and withholding, visitors and neighbors, and the difficult little question of what a household should keep and what it should give.Drawing especially on Irish May Day and Bealtaine material, Mabel Tern follows luck as i...

Bring Yule and winter-solstice witchcraft into the home you already have.In A House for the Longest Night, Mabel Tern follows the whole midwinter passage: the first evening the lamps come on early, the boxes and blankets that return, greenery entering a closed room, gifts and guests moving through the house, the solstice hinge itself, and the quiet work of putting things back in January.The book contains 42 substantial workings for winter protection, light and warmth, seaso...

A practical Samhain witchcraft guide with 48 spells and rituals for protection, remembrance of the dead, divination, offerings, household boundaries, and the turn into winter.In Samhain at Home, Mabel Tern brings Samhain rituals and Halloween witchcraft into the rooms people actually live in. The workings use ordinary objects and familiar actions: setting a protective rule at the door, leaving water or a small offering for the dead, handling photographs and inherited objects, readi...

Spring-equinoctial witchcraft is usually sold as a clean story of balance, renewal, seeds, and equal day and night. The Spring Reckoning begins with a less obedient March: clocks change, weather doubles back, a bill still has a due date, a tree keeps its own schedule, and the astronomical equinox occurs at an exact instant whether the household is ready or not.Mabel Tern treats Ostara and the spring equinox through the calendars a real home already keeps. Work with local daylight, ...

Midsummer is easy to picture as a climax: the Sun at full power, a bonfire, herbs and flowers, abundance, a night kept awake on purpose. Midsummer Keeping starts after the picture has already become inconvenient. The west-facing room is too bright, the curtain is fading, plants need water more often, the night will not get dark when the household wants to sleep, and practical summer continues even after astronomical daylight begins to shorten.Mabel Tern treats the summer solstice a...