Hearth & Horn

Ask me about...

• How to read Tarot.
• Origami magic
• Building relationships with local spirits of place.
• Building a regular practice.
• Getting started
• How to research and learn
• Channel Islands folklore & witchcraft
• Book recommendations
• Path recommendations (I know a lot about a lot of different traditions)
• Different Devil-Satan-Lucifer traditions

I can also give you the 101 on...
Thelema/Golden Dawn/Chaos Magic/Vodou/Wicca


Latin: Open
Ancient Greek: Open, with the caveat that I am extremely rusty and was never that great to begin with.
Quenya/Sindarin: Open
Guernésiais: Tentatively open - I am a beginner, but would like a challenge
Anglo Saxon: Tentatively open - I am a beginner, but would like a challenge


Tarot Readings: CLOSED
Spellcasting: CLOSED [never likely to be open]
Spell design: I'd love to collaborate with you and design a spell together.

Embroidered altar cloths & clothes: $ - Open - ask for more information
Hand-painted images for altars: $ - Open - ask for more information
Prayer cards (digital or by mail): $ - Open - ask for more information




ATCs: Trades & commissions open, to anyone who won't get grouchy if a low-spoon week means I send late
Snail Mail: I would like to do this in future.
Packages of Witchy Stuff: CLOSED [too broke to reciprocate the way I'd like]
Zine swaps: YES. 


I'm very keen to share what I know with new and advancing Pagans - but I feel pretty icky about hierarchical mentor-student relationships. Far, far too open to abuse and power imbalances. Even if I'm the mentor - I don't think it's good to participate in structures which disempower beginners and put them at risk.

I'm much happier to try and create something mutual, where both people learn from each other. Even if you're 100% new and you don't feel you have anything to offer - I can guarantee you've got things to teach. 

Mentees: Yes please - so long as you're enthusiastic about working as a team to both learn more, rather than me spoon-feeding you information.

Study partners: Yes please!

Mentees in person: Possibly. I'm in London. I think a lot about establishing a small study-group. Let's talk.

1989 /  London  / My gender identity is coward. 

Pagan since birth; but very active practice since 2012.

I like cities, hornbeams, crafts, programming, ferrets.

I have a zero tolerance nastiness policy.

• I do my best to talk with people kindly, and in good faith - and expect the same from others.


• I'm here to make friends and learn - please ask questions, give me feedback, and introduce yourself!


• I have refuse to participate in internet pissing contests or be targeted by power-hungry self-identified-community-leaders who get off on performative nastiness. Find someone else who shares your vile hobby to scrap with. You fucking terrify me.


• If I feel like a comment or message was sent with poor intent, I block enthusiastically.


• Communicating tone/intent can be hard online - but don't worry, I think I've got a pretty good sense for people who are doing their best, and people who want to fight. Nevertheless, when possible, please be mindful of how you write, and go out of your way to communicate friendliness. I'm anxious around intereacting with people, and doubly so online where I can't read your body language, face or vocal tone.

Due to how distressing I find internet-drive-by-harassment culture, I lock many of my important posts.

However, I am very keen to make friends, very keen to share my practice and my ideas and get feedback, and learn from the people around me. I want things I write to be read!

Please don't be shy, and request access. I say yes to everyone who asks. I pre-emptively offer access to people I've seen around, who I'm interested to interact with.

(Exception? If I've seen you around the site starting fights, I'll likely decline. Don't do that, and we're cool.)



All enthusiastically encouraged. Feedback? Questions? Con-crit? Enthusiasm? Links or recommendations? Want to have a conversation?

Comments on very old posts? (necromancers welcome here)
Comments from people who I've never interacted with? That's how friendships begin.
Questions about craft? About me? About gender? I'm open to all.

Don't be shy - I'm here to teach and share what I have, and learn from people around me. I love to talk about my ideas, and learn from yours.

As you might gather from this post, I really value kindness online, and will not bite your head off: I'm a former teacher, for whom there are "no stupid questions", and passionately believe that not-knowing an opportunity.



I'm open to connecting with people in other ways, for different kinds of conversations. This includes:

• Skype
• Snail mail
• Email
• In-person (I'm in London, and rarely travel outside of it)

These have all worked well for me in the past - so let me know if you're interested.

I'm not wild about other kinds of social media right now. Dreamwidth has a really good combination of anonymity and identity, of openness yet also robust boundary-setting and privacy controls. I've had bad experiences of various severity on tumblr, facebook and reddit, and generally feel like none of them are well-suited for ongoing discussion and study, building relationships, and kindness; nor are they well designed for what I need to thrive in online environments. I occasionally contribute at ecauldron and reddit.


I include content notes as often as I remember. Content Notes (i.e. CN: nudity) take the place of trigger warnings; I prefer them because they feel a bit more neutral:

• Content might not be triggering per se - for example, it's nsfw
• It explicitly welcomes people without literal triggers to make choices about what they encounter

I try and remember all the most common triggers. Additionally, if I become aware that a mutual finds particular things difficult, I'll try and proactively warn for that content.

Let me know if you follow my content, and would like me to warn for something specific.

This journal seeks to be safe for women (both cis and trans), LGBT people, people of colour, people with disabilities, and so on.

I like to learn, don't wish to hurt anyone even by accident, am happy to amend things I've written, or reflect on ideas I've used. Please give me kindly-worded feedback if something I write strikes you as unwelcoming or inaccurate, and I'll do my best to take it on board: by adding an edit to my original post, doing some more thinking, having a conversation, changing my approach in future, whatever feels appropriate.

However, I am very frightened of social justice culture. This includes:

• the language & terminology of callouts
• assumption of bad faith
• turning small mistakes into declarative condemnations
• the shouting, the dogpiling
• "It's super cool to be performatively nasty to strangers when I decide they deserve it"
• "I don't have to be nice to anyone who is wrong by my personal standards"
• "It's more important to achieve a high-level political goal than it is to be nice to people"
• the general "I have to walk on eggshells or the internet will eviscerate me" atmosphere

I can't handle it. It freaks me the fuck out. Not in a "lol white people tears trying to avoid accountability" way: I find it legitimately triggering due to some very heavy personal experiences.

Please don't do it.


I'm interested in having good faith conversations with people with different perspectives.

(At times, this can include people with views which might be considered transphobic, racist, misogynist and so forth - we can only hope to change hearts and minds through dialogue. Although I don't intend this to be a political space, and hope these conversations will not happen regularly.)

General guidelines:

• I like hearing other perspectives.
• I'm willing to host difficult conversations in my comments section.
• I may or may not explicitly moderate, depending on my spoons.
• I reserve the right to bar people from my blog, without apology or notification.
• I am open to responses and comments with ideas I find personally distasteful or upsetting - but if you are regularly showing up in my comments section being an asshole, you're going to get banned.
• My top priority is providing a safe environment as described above - if you are upsetting other commenters, and making the kinds of people I most wish to support feel uncomfortable, this may also earn a ban.

If you join difficult conversations here, please participate in good faith:

• Use respectful language - no ALL CAPS, no swear words, no snark or sass.
• Be kind and polite.
• Remember you are talking to a person (not a monster or debate object)
• Write to persuade and understand, not to "win".
• Hold an open mind, and seek to learn from the other person - even if you think their views are abhorrent, seek to learn more about them and how they've come to hold these views.
• Assume the person you are speaking to is capable of change and growth, that they have never had the opportunity to understand or encounter an idea.
• Take care of yourself & be mindful of your emotions and needs.
• Don't partcipate in conversations which you know will distress you. Opt out.
• Remove yourself from the conversation if you can feel it getting to you - prioritise your self care, your emotions and sense of safety, your ability to get whatever it is you need to do today in the real world done.
• Remove yourself from the conversation if you can feel yourself getting so angry or distressed you are no longer feel able to abide by these guidelines.