The Elemental Apothecary

05/03/2026

Article from me this time about magical dolls and haunted vessels,

04/03/2026

I'm going to be helping out in Glastonbury on Saturday at my friends cool shop on Benedict Street : The Enchanted Emporium.

If you're in town for the Fairy Ball or having a day trip, pop in and see me to say hello.

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The Enchanted Emporium

04/03/2026

As the sun shines down this spring day, things feel a little more hopeful and I've been focusing on things I'm looking forward to.
One of the years highlights is our yearly festival : A Festival for Pagans and Witches.

In only two months we get together again to create some beautiful magic together.

A Festival For Pagans and Witches returns to Coventry UK again from 2nd to the 4th of May.

We open our doors to everyone and anyone with an interest in magic, community and a curious mind.

You will have the chance to learn from long established covens, ancient solitary witches, renowned readers, occult authors and talented crafts men and women in our array of workshops.
We have meditations and sound journeys too for when you want to kick back and allow yourself to escape the world for a while. where you can work with angels, fairies and developing your own psychic abilities.

You can also enjoy:
- A magical market full of talented makers and friendly traders
- Night rituals where you can go in the dark woodland and be part of special ceremonies
- A Witches Ball headlined by Inkubus Sukkubus
- A Viking Feast full of mead, fun, food and entertainment
- A main arena hosting activities all day so you can sit back and take everything in
- Woodland walks, Birds of Prey, Fire walking and full children's program.

Tickets for our not for profit festival are from £15 a day. All tickets for the festival, workshops and ball can be booked now at afestivalforpagansandwitches.co.uk

03/03/2026

Stand for peace

This is growing… and it’s not slowing down 🌍
Witches from all over the world are already stepping in.
Different paths. Different ways.
Same intention.
If you’ve been feeling the pull.. this is it.
Come and stand with us 🕯️✨

27/02/2026

21/02/2026

Goblins - not often spoken of and not ones I tend to deal with so it was a blessing and a b***y prize to meet them last weekend as I walked the Bronte trail on the Yorkshire moors.

The moors— seen as thin places angerous, eerie landscapes where supernatural beings might cross into the human world, especially at dusk or in bad weather.

They are foggy, vast, and isolated—absolutely feel like goblin territory, which is why these legends stuck so strongly. If you were walking alone across heather in thick mist a few hundred years ago, it was very easy to believe something small and malicious was watching you.

Howarth housed many boggarts - Shape-shifting, mischievous (sometimes nasty) spirits said to haunt lonely places—moors, old paths, farms, and ruins. They’d lead travellers astray, frighten horses, or cause strange noises in the mist.

These little goblins have gotten used to people treading around Bronte territory but as the gorse tears your shirt or the stones slip under your feet, it doesn't mean they like it.

As in most fae cultures, we coexist. As we approach an anniversary of 3 Wishes Fairy Festival and the incredible Henson Froud offering of Labyrinth, I feel they need to be heard (though believe me it's like channelling Sid Vicious in his hayday.

21/02/2026

A full on month...

I feel I say this often BUT this month has been a grounding one with lots of stress and worry - I have neglected my spiritual side and actually every other side.

Today a Starling flew into my window. It looked stunned but had a poorly left leg. I took her to the vet but the damage was so bad she had to be euthanised.

When an animal gives you a message it's beautiful. When an animal gives its life to give you a message, it's urgent.

This being flew into my window in front of my face, with such force that she damaged her left side beyond repair.

The message was clear.... Change direction before it is too late.

The left side is the feminine - the receiving side. This illustrates me not asking or accepting help. The urgency is that soon it will be too mature in the issue so when help is given, it will be too late to save me.

I say 'ME' not through ego but through knowledge - this was a personal message as only a beings self sacrifice illustrates. A sister asked for help late into an issue recently and I helped (part of this months roller coaster) and it was on time - again another reflection or message.

Tonight I lit a candle for the little starling that met karma to help me. Blessings little one, I'm listening

12/02/2026

🕯 Friday The 13th Coming up.
A date they taught you to fear.
A current the Old Ways remember as sacred.

I am a Viking Pagan Witch and High Priestess.
I do not speak of Freyja as myth or aesthetic.
I speak of her as lineage. As living current.

Friday is named for Freyja, the great Vanir goddess whose name echoes through the Germanic tongues. Just as Thursday remembers Thor, Friday remembers Her.

Every Friday carries her frequency.

And the number 13?
Lunar. Cyclical. Blood. Rebirth.
The number of the feminine mysteries.

It was never unlucky.
It was powerful.

When Christianity moved through the Norse lands, many deities were softened, reframed, absorbed into sainthood.

Freyja could not be softened.

She governed sexuality and sovereignty.
Fate and prophecy.
Battle and beauty.
Wealth and death.

She chose half the slain for Fólkvangr while Odin took the other half to Valhalla.

She wore Brísingamen not as decoration but as earned power.

She rode in her falcon cloak between worlds.

She commanded seiðr the deep trance magic of fate weaving.

And this is what unsettled the Church.
She did not ask permission.

She taught the gods seiðr.
She trained the völvas, the staff bearing seeresses.
She ruled desire without shame.
She embodied fertility and war in the same breath.

A woman who feels.
A woman who chooses.
A woman who sees and refuses to bow.

What could not be controlled was reframed.
Power became excess.
Sensuality became sin.
Authority became vanity.

This pattern is ancient.
And it is still happening.

But the Old Ways do not forget.
And neither do we.

Freyja’s magic is not loud domination.
It is embodied sovereignty.

She teaches.

Desire is directional.
Grief is depth.
Sensuality is aliveness.
Magic is alignment.

Seiðr is not rushed spellwork.
It is lunar. Cyclical. Intuitive.
It requires stillness. Timing. Nerve.

It moves through the body before it moves through the world.

Those drawn to Freyja are often reclaiming what was once shamed.

Your longing.
Your intuition.
Your sexuality.
Your authority.
Your witch blood.

Friday the 13th is not superstition.
It is reclamation.

In the Old Ways, this would have been a day to Wear gold or amber.
Anoint with honey, rose, or myrrh.
Sit in trance and ask, What do I truly desire?
Pull one rune and listen.
Honour both your softness and your sword.

You do not harden to become powerful.

You integrate.

To walk with Freyja is to choose wholeness.
To honour desire without apology.
To practice magic that is embodied, sovereign, and deeply true.

This Friday, do not shrink.

Stand in your sovereignty.
Call your magic back into your bones.
Remember who you are.

The Old Ways are not lost.
They are remembered.

Blessed Be Justine. 🧙💜

31/01/2026

The ancient wisdom keepers.

All uniquely and intuitively carved.

The teachers.

Dormant but so alive.

Will list them over the next few days if I can part with them!

28/01/2026

It's never too late to begin again.

My personal favourite is clear quartz as it seems to super power any other crystal and decision.

If you are trying to keep someone or something away from you (i.e. giving up alcohol or toxic people) then something like obsidian or Shungite placed alongside one of these below will be perfect.

The thing with new beginnings is you need to END what came before and protect yourself from it circling back round so always sit a protection crystal next to one of these.

A little incantation prayer as you hold on to them won't hurt either

27/01/2026

As you know the majority of my carvings are intuitively carved. What’s interesting is the dragons coming forward at the moment are totally different looking to ones in the past.

These recent ones from my master carver in Peru have a much more defined look. They have the look of the ancients.

The older dragon clans - the wisdom healers and those alike are stepping forward now - almost as mentors to the younger clans we are working with.

I haven’t gone into channelling with any of these new pieces yet but it’s exciting!