The reference pages of this site speak for the coven as a whole. The Journal is where its members write under their own Craft names, at their own length and in their own voices.
These are personal pieces. Each is the work of the member who signs it, and none of them speaks for the coven or for the tradition. They are added to as people find they have something to say, which is not often and cannot be hurried.
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The Journal
Keeping November Eve
Our High Priestess on why the coven still calls Samhain by its older English name, and what it means to lay a place at the table for the dead.
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The Journal
Copying the Book by Hand
Why Gardnerian witches still copy the Book of Shadows with a pen, and what a hundred evenings of copying taught one initiate about the tradition.
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The Journal
A Year and a Day
The waiting before initiation is not an obstacle course. Our Maiden on what the year and a day is for, and what it asks of seeker and coven alike.
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The Journal
The Old Religion and the Honest Historian
Wicca is not a survival from the Stone Age, and it does not need to be. Our High Priest on living honestly with the history of the Craft.
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The Journal
What the Hill Is Called
Our founding High Priestess on how the coven came by its name, what Cythrawl means, and what it does not.
About the Journal
The Journal was begun at Candlemas 2026, six months after the website was opened, with Hesper's account of how the coven came by its name. Its only rules are those that govern the rest of the site. Nothing oathbound appears in it. No living person is named except by a Craft name, and then only with their consent. And nothing is written in order to persuade anyone to become a witch.
The writers are introduced on the page about the people of the coven. If an essay sends you looking for an unfamiliar word, the glossary will probably have it.