Wicked Little Witches

05/31/2026

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05/30/2026

KAT IS HERE TOMORROW May 31, 12-5
And every Sunday in June!

05/30/2026

“Once in a Blue Moon” finally happens tomorrow night — during a planet lineup.

On May 30-31, the moon will officially become full for the second time in a single calendar month, creating what’s commonly known as a Blue Moon.
At the same time, skywatchers will also be able to spot a rare lineup of planets stretching across the evening and early morning sky.

Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Mars will all be visible within hours of each other, though not all at once. Some will appear after sunset, while others rise closer to dawn.

The combination is turning this weekend into one of the most unusual skywatching events of the year.

The phrase “once in a blue moon” became famous because events like this are genuinely rare.

A Blue Moon happens because the moon’s 29.5-day cycle doesn’t perfectly match our calendar system. Occasionally, that timing allows two full moons to occur in the same month.

That’s exactly what happened in May 2026.

The first full moon — known as the Flower Moon — rose on May 1. Now, another full moon is arriving just before the month ends.

Despite the name, the moon itself probably won’t appear blue.

Instead, it will likely glow orange near the horizon during moonrise tomorrow evening. That color comes from Rayleigh scattering, the same atmospheric effect that makes sunsets appear red and orange.

As moonlight passes through a thicker layer of Earth’s atmosphere, shorter blue wavelengths scatter away while longer red and orange wavelengths continue toward your eyes.

The best time to see the Blue Moon will be shortly after sunset on Saturday evening. Find a clear southeastern horizon and watch for a large golden-orange moon rising into the dusk sky.

The next monthly Blue Moon won’t happen again until Dec. 31, 2028.

05/30/2026

Governor Ron DeSantis officially signed the new Florida public safety bill this week. The law explicitly shields drivers from civil and criminal liability if they continue moving through rioters who are blocking a roadway and the driver reasonably feels threatened. It builds on earlier Florida legislation cracking down on highway blockades. Several other red state governors have already signaled they're drafting copycat bills.

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

Tomorrow 1-5 we have Quercus on stand by!

05/26/2026

I used to think people who walked around barefoot in the park were just hippies with tough soles. Then I read the electrophysiology studies and realized I'd been missing something that happens every single time skin meets soil.

Your body runs on electricity. Every heartbeat, every nerve signal, every thought firing through your brain—it's all electrical impulse. And here's the part that made me sit up straight: the planet beneath us holds a mild negative charge, constantly replenished by lightning strikes and solar radiation. We're designed to exchange electrons with it. But we've wrapped our feet in rubber and built our lives six inches off the ground.

When bare skin touches earth—real dirt, not pavement—you don't just feel grounded in some poetic sense. You literally become grounded in the electrical engineering sense. Electrons flow up through your feet the moment contact happens. Within two hours, blood samples show your red blood cells become less sticky, clumping reduced by nearly half. That's not metaphor. That's viscosity you can measure in a lab.

The inflammation markers drop too. C-reactive protein, the compound that signals chronic inflammation, falls measurably after barefoot ground contact. Your cortisol rhythm—that wave of stress hormone that peaks in the morning and should taper by evening—starts correcting itself. People who ground regularly fall asleep fifteen minutes faster. They wake less during the night. Their bodies remember the rhythm modern life made them forget.

I've been doing this under the old sugar maple in my backyard for three years now. Twenty minutes, early morning, bare feet in the grass. Some days I feel a warmth creeping up from my soles. Other days, nothing physical at all. But my breathing always slows without me trying. My shoulders drop. The mental static that follows me from the house just... disperses.

Trees add a second layer to this. They're exhaling chemicals called phytoncides—part of their immune defense system. When you breathe those compounds, your white blood cell activity increases. Your body recognizes something ancient in that air. Two systems talking to each other the way they did long before we paved everything.

You don't need a forest. A backyard works. A park with a patch of exposed soil works. Morning dew on grass is ideal because water conducts beautifully, but dry ground does the job too. No meditation required. No special breathing pattern. Just skin on earth and time passing.

I tell people to put one hand on a tree trunk while they stand there. Not for balance—for connection. You're linking yourself into something much larger, a network that's been exchanging energy since roots first figured out how to split rock.

Start with whatever tree you're drawn to. Oak if you want to feel anchored. Pine if you need a lift. Willow near water if you're working through something heavy. Cedar, maple, ash—they all work because they're all plugged into the same ground you're standing on.

Three or four times a week and your body starts remembering. The circuit completes. The electrons flow. What twenty minutes can do, an hour of sitting still indoors simply can't.

The earth's been charging us for millennia. We just forgot to take our shoes off. [0SF2J]

05/25/2026

Hail Friends of the Ohio Viking Festival!

Time is running short to become a Mead Hall sponsor for the 2026 Ohio Viking Festival! The final day to secure your sponsorship is May 31st so we can have banners printed and sponsor t-shirts ordered in time for the festival.

Your support helps us continue building an unforgettable Viking experience filled with live entertainment, combat demonstrations, music, merchants, food, and the Mead Hall itself.

If your sponsorship includes a t-shirt, it will be mailed directly to you once they are printed.

All sponsorship tickets will be available at the festival ticket booths. Simply give the name the sponsorship was placed under when you arrive.

There are several sponsorship levels available for businesses, merchants and patrons below.

Thank you for helping bring the Ohio Viking Festival to life. We could not do this without the support of our amazing community.

Skål!
The Ohio Viking Festival Team

Ohio Viking Festival

05/23/2026

The Sagittarius Blue Moon rises on May 31, 2026, closing one of the rarest lunar cycles in years. A second Full Moon within the same calendar month has long been viewed in witchcraft as a threshold moment, carrying energy that feels outside ordinary time.

And Sagittarius transforms that energy completely.

This is not a quiet Moon.

This is fire meeting destiny.

Sagittarius governs expansion, prophecy, higher wisdom, freedom, travel, spiritual awakening, and the urge to move beyond limitation. Under this Moon, anything restrictive begins feeling unbearable. Situations once tolerated may suddenly feel too small. Emotional cycles that once controlled you may finally weaken their grip.

The energy becomes impossible to ignore.

Witches have always linked Blue Moons to heightened spellwork, manifestation, divination, synchronicities, spirit communication, and accelerated transformation. Rare lunar phases were treated as portals where endings complete fully and new paths reveal themselves with unusual speed.

This Moon carries that atmosphere intensely.

You may feel restless beneath it, pulled toward something larger than your current reality. New experiences, opportunities, ideas, and directions may begin appearing unexpectedly. Sagittarius fire does not remain trapped for long.

It expands.

This is a powerful Moon for road opening rituals, candle magic, abundance workings, shadow work, truth-seeking, releasing stagnation, and breaking energetic limitations connected to fear, visibility, or self-doubt.

Because Sagittarius energy exposes one thing clearly:

Growth cannot happen while you remain emotionally attached to old versions of yourself.

By the time this Blue Moon reaches fullness, certain truths may feel undeniable. A chapter that once felt unfinished may suddenly feel complete. A dream buried long ago may begin calling you forward again with force.

Rare moons alter the rhythm.

And when the rhythm changes, witches move with it.

The Sagittarius Blue Moon is not asking who you were.

It is asking whether you are finally ready to step toward who you were always meant to become.