Top 5 Most fun Halloween Inspired Shoes

 I'm a witch, of course I love Halloween, and all things Halloween inspired... here's some of my favorite designs for you, this season. 

All of these Halloween shoes are available on my website and my Etsy store - since I know that most of my fans feel safer shopping through Etsy, those are the links I have used for my Halloween inspired platform heels, Boots, Slip-ons, sneakers and some kiddies sneakers too...

Number 5:

Midnight Halloween Boots... I spent so much time sketching this design, and just having pure fun with it! It is available on boots for men and ladies, as well as ladies platform heels. It includes a witch's bat and cat, the perfect shoes to wear at midnight on All Hallows Eve, and for those crazy Samhain parties

Number 4:

Halloween All Sorts - this really fun design has become my post popular one, and is available on pretty much every style of shoe. It includes a little bit of everything, and there is quite literally something here for the whole family

Men's and Ladies Halloween Boots

Ladies Halloween Platform Heels

Kids Halloween High Top Sneakers

Men's and ladies Halloween slip-ons

Men's and ladies Halloween High Top Sneakers

Men's and ladies sneakers

Number 3:

The witch and the moon, I have this one available in 3 different styles, and it was one of the designs I had the most fun with by far, with each design being a little different for each Halloween shoe style.

Purple Witch High Top Sneakers for kids

Men's and Ladies boots

Men's and Ladies Halloween Hightop sneakers

Number 2:

Pumpkin Head, this freaky looking pumpkin head design is also available on pretty much every style of shoe... and even a cute little black dress... I know you're going to love it too.

Men's and ladies Halloween slip-ons

Men's and Ladies Halloween Hightop sneakers

Ladies Platform Heels

Kids Hightop sneakers

Number 1:

Okay so with this design I might just be a bit biased... it's my favorite black cat shoe design, featuring my favorite black cat, my very own Gem.

This design comes in witchy platform heels, boots and sneakers (There's also a cute little black dress too... CLICK HERE to check it out).

Men's and ladies boots

Ladies Platform Heels

Men's and ladies black cat sneakers

I hope you have as much fun this Halloween with these designs, as I have had making them for you. 

Stay Safe, Stay home (if you can) and create some magick!

Nathalie Beulah

Familiar Heart

 At the end of September, I was given the painfully difficult news that 14 year old cat familiar has kidney disease. As you can imagine, I was devastated.

Although right now he is alive and as healthy as can be, I literally felt unable to cope for days. I think that hardest part was having to admit that my boy had grown old. I adopted him in my mid twenties, and now that I'm staring down the barrel at 40, well I guess it was time to admit they we have both gotten older and wiser. 

I also found myself being eternally grateful, which sounds strange right, but the truth is, he could live for a number of years if his illness is well managed, and he is given the correct diet (I have been through this before with one of my dogs, so I know what will be expected of me). It gives me the opportunity to give him extra love every day. It gives me the opportunity to be prepared for the worst, but most importantly it gives me the opportunity to remember how lucky I am to have this cat in my life, and to remember the life we lived together.

For years, as a single bachelorette witch, we lived together, just him and me, before I adopted Gem, my little black cat. Now 14 years down the line, I have an amazing wife and life partner, who dotes on my furbabies and spoils them rotten... and we managed to adopt another 10 more (yes we have a busy, love filled home).

Over this last full moon, I offered special prayers to Bastet, for protection and good health for my boy, as well as for two other friend's with cats who haven't been well... it almost feels like there's something in the air as we approach Beltaine here in the Southern Hemisphere. 

I found this amazing little prayer to Bastet for our feline friends, and wanted to share it with you, just in case you needed it too... 

I was also inspired to design a range of goodies to commemorate my Gem cat, she is such a magnificent beauty, and also becoming an older, grumpier lady now. I want to always have something to remind me of her, and to hold her in my heart. So I decided to design some clothing and fashion items with her included - I have to admit it was very therapeutic process, and it helped me to be able to breathe a little more once again.

So for me, these aren't just clothing items, they're made up of memories and love, spells and magic, and they're something special and close to my heart.

Find me on twitter and tag me @Wiccaseries and let me know what special things you have done to remember your familiars, I would really love to hear them.

Remember Witches... Stay Safe, stay home (if you can) and make Magick!

Nathalie Beulah

Business Success incense bombs

Sometimes our true success lies in the small habits we keep and maintain. It’s these small rituals that can often helps to always find success wherever we go and in whatever we do. Today I want to share with you one of my favourite, small rituals.

I love making these whenever I am starting a new project, it helps me to focus my mind, set my intentions, and to expect and receive success.

These are really great to make whenever you are looking to achieve some kind of success in your career or in business. Ideally you should make them just before you start a new project, for example just before you start writing that new book, start a new business venture or even start to look for a new job. Make yourself a couple of these while focusing on and visualising yourself succeeding.

You will need:

Fresh basil leaves

Cinnamon – can be sticks or dried and powdered.

Gold / silver / copper colour thread – which ever signifies abundance and success the most for you

Wrap the basil leaves around the cinnamon sticks, and tie the thread around it to keep the basil leaf in place, or if you are using powdered cinnamon, pour some into the centre of the leaf and wrap the leaf around it, using the thread to keep it closed, like a small sachet bag.

Then place these somewhere where they can remain safe and dry out undisturbed, while you work on your project. Though this should also be somewhere where you can see them frequently, at least once a day, to help you to remember your goals ahead, and help to keep you focused.

 Once you have completed your project, you should burn these, either in a bonfire or in an incense burner, preferably on the day of your success (perhaps even as part of your celebrations) so on the day your book is published and ready to sell, or the first day in your new job, or the day you launch your brand new business venture. As you are burning the incense bomb, visualise great successes coming to you now and in the future, ask your deity for their blessings, but most importantly express gratitude for your success, and your having achieved your current goal.

This can really become a powerful little practice, I do it as often as I need to and whenever I feel I need success on a new project I’m about to start. Not only is it a powerful act of intention, but it helps me to stay focused on my goals ahead.

I hope it helps to bring you many great successes too.

Litha Blessings!

The eve of Litha is upon us, and although I'm excited to celebrate it this year, it's also a bitter sweet celebration.

It marks a month since Akura, one of our beloved cats passed away. It was a sudden and unexpected death, and it still hurts. She wasn't just any cat, and even though we saw her as our "fur child" - she was so much more than that... she was also my wife's Familiar.

It's hard to explain to muggles, and many people what this means exactly. Out of the 11 four legged, fluffy furkids in our home, only two have had this title. My boy Jinx is my Familiar, and Akura was my wife's. A familiar is not just another furry family member, but for us witches there exists a very special, spiritual bond with the animal.

During Litha, it's traditional to have an animal blessing rite, as a result every time I've thought of coming up with celebrations, or creating any rituals for the day, my mind turns to our beloved Akura, my heart hurts (sometimes I cry), and I struggle to move forward.

As a result, I thought it best that maybe we make it a more casual get together for the day. In true South African style we will be having a braai with seasonal salads. But I still want to do something to celebrate the day, so I will be having a small bowl to burn offerings in, and we will do a traditional jumping over of the fire for prosperity and abundance, and we will leave out some milk and honey for the Faye Folk.

I also still very much want to do something that includes an animal blessing, as my pets are such an important part of my life. Besides our loss, the other biggest hurdle we are facing is that there will be no less then twenty pets to be represented over three households, the logistics of getting everyone together for a quick blessing would prove to be quite difficult. Instead I've gone for a candle blessing, where I will be blessing a candle, which in turn when burned in the homes of the furry family members and will impart the blessing onto them. Here's the blessing I came up with, and hopefully you can use it too.

Animal Blessings Candle - blessing ritual

You will need a candle, preferably plain white

Dried chamomile flowers (or chamomile tea would work) – this is the flower for harmony (especially in homes with multiple pets), peace, healing and happiness.

Dried basil leaves – for protection

Dried cloves – for protection and healing.

You can place these herbs in a blessing oil to steep for a few hours (or for a day or two at room temperature), before using it to anoint your candle, or you can melt down some candle wax and place the herbs in the wax, to dip your pet protection candle in. Just make sure the wax isn’t too hot, or you might create a fire when you add the dried herbs.

Have your plain white candle and the oil or wax with the herbs in ready on your altar to be blessed. Set up your sacred space as you normally would, call on the quarters and invoke your deity.

When you are ready to bless the candle, place your hands over the candle and oil / wax herbal mix and say the following incantation:

Artemis, with your arrow straight and true

Bless this candle I bring to you

Imbue it with peace, harmony and love

And protection from you hereof

Bless this candle and its flame

So that all animals, wild and tame

Within the home where it may burn

Will your love and protection earn

Dip the white candle into the oil or wax, and then place it back onto your altar. Place your hands over it once again and repeat the above incantation.

When the candle is blessed, light it’s flame, and visualise the light extending out over your home, and keeping all the animals within happy, safe and living together in harmony.

If you are going to be gifting it to friends or your coven, as I am. Include a copy of the incantation, and a description of visualising the light extending out and over their furry loved ones, so that they can perform the visualisation when they burn the candle in their own homes.

To end today's post I want to finish off by sharing with you some Summer Solstice Facts. I wish you and your family an Blessed Litha, and for our friends in the North a Blessed Yule, and I wish you only the best for the year to come

Thousands of FREE meditations

As you know, I am a HUGE fan of a good daily meditation, what a lot of you might not now is that I actually create my own meditation music too.

That’s right, and believe it or not, but it’s one of the reasons I actually started The Wicca Series, some 11 years ago. 

My goal was to originally create a series of Wiccan and Pagan based meditations, and so The Wicca Series was born.

However, eleven years later and most of my meditations have evolved into music based meditations. A large majority of them contain binaural beats (Theta or alpha waves) to help you to truly focus your intentions as you meditate.

Would you like to listen to them? For FREE? Of course you do... they’re available to listen to on an app called Insight Timer. I’ve already had almost 60,000 listens to my tracks... and of course you’re welcome to leave me a “tip” if you like my music to thank me for all the hard work that went into creating it.

I know that my type of meditation music isn’t “everyone’s cuppa tea”, but there is good news. There are literally hundreds of other teachers available on the app with thousands of meditations to suit everybody’s taste.

So if one of your goals for the upcoming year is to meditate more, to find healing and to become more in-tune with yourself, then this app is a really fantastic place to start.

In fact it has officially become the most downloaded and used meditation app across the world, give it a try and you will see why. It even allows you to keep track of how often you meditate (and you score points too), you can meet fellow meditators and make new friends, and follow your favourite teachers that you would like to hear more of. 

Download it today, it has free version (which still has loads of features), and before you know it, you will find completing your daily meditations a breeze.

Summer is Coming

Summer is coming! It has been an unusually cool spring season for us here in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the occasional bouts of heat waves in between, which is why I'm looking forward to this Summer Solstice. 

That and for the first time in more than a decade (that's right, 10 years) I'm inviting guests over to celebrate it with me. Naturally I'm a little nervous, and when I start to worry about what I'm going to do and how the day should go, I remind myself that "I got this".

I'm planning a small feast and blessing, and pretty much a relaxed day all round, but I'm quite excited to be making it a special occasion with good friends. Of course I will be throwing in some milk and honey as offerings to the Faye, as well as a blessing for all animals and beloved pets (one of my favourite parts of the Summer Solstice rituals), and to finish it off I am setting up a small summer feast. My summer harvest is starting to grow in my garden, so it will no doubt be a really good "homemade with love feast".

I have also started to dry out a few smudge sticks as gifts for everyone, with the new year around the corner, it's a really great time to burn these to cleanse away the old dusty cobwebs of 2018 as we welcome the new energy of 2019. 

The only thing I have left to do is work out the day's schedule and how to go through the day, and although I might go about fussing about these things on the day, I have to say that I am really feeling good about it, because let's face it, the Summer Solstice is always best when spent with friends as we celebrate the Sun and the God on the longest day of the year, I can think of no better way of spending it. 

To finish I would like to quote this exert from Every Day Magic by Cassandra Carter

Litha - Summer Solstice - is the festival of the Sun's power, the longest day of the year. After this point, however, the year begins to wane. A good time to look at what brings light to your life and to think how you can nurture it, and yourself, as the darkness approaches.

Spoil yourself with Freyja Natural

I'm not a huge fan of actually leaving my house much, I try to do it as little as possible, however during the months of September to November, it appears that almost everyone I know seems to have a birthday or celebration of some sort. This usually means dreaded trips down to shopping malls to find the perfect gift.

I love to give natural, good for the environment, type of gifts, and I much rather prefer shopping online, this means that coming across a brand like Freyja Natural, has all my boxes "ticked" and so much more...

I have completely fallen in love with this site. Not only did they communicate with me throughout the entire order process, but I had the absolutely most beautiful package hand delivered to my home, with a smile. And to top it off the products are absolutely amazing!

When you buy from a small business an actual person does a little happy dance

First of all, receiving a beautiful package like this... well who wouldn't feel special. I think this part alone brightened up my day!

So what did I order? I suffer from terrible dry skin, especially in winter. So I decided to give their "Whipped Cream" body cream and lip balm a try. Not only did these goodies smell really good - I will admit to sniffing them from time to time during the day, as I just couldn't get enough of how good they smelled, but they also feel really good. They're not oily, and are most definitely very moisturizing... oh and did I mention they smell really good.

My delicious goodies unpacked

To top it all off, not only did I get fast delivery, brilliant communication, amazing products... but I also received a personal hand written note and a small thank you gift. I was completely blown away.

My thank you gift

When it comes to gift shopping over the next year (especially gifts for myself), I am most definitely going to go to this site first. I think everyone should get a "taste" of these amazing products, and I will most definitely be recommending this brand to all my friends and family too. 

Why not give them a try yourself? I can guarantee you are going to fall in love with this brand too. Click on the image below and go view their product range NOW!

Art for Pagans

Displate.com is changing how art is being created and sold! 

It's a website focused on saving trees and helping artists, how wonderful is that? I wanted to share with you some of the beautiful Pagan inspired art pieces available on the site. If you are interested in any of these pieces, simply click on the image and it will take you to the artist's page.