My life is becoming quite chaotic (last minute holiday shoppers unite!) as the end of December approaches. My weekends have been filled with commuting back and forth all over the city to various dinners and festivities and I haven’t had as much time as I would like to focus on my practice.

Like many pagans, I will be celebrating Yule this week. I’m mostly a solitary witch so I’ve planned a simple feast (with a tasting of my Solstice Brew) and ritual that I will be performing at home. Sometimes I wish I was a member of a coven that had big sabbat celebrations I could join. Despite Chicago being such a large city, the pagan groups here are fairly small and often too far away to go to regularly. I like to think that in the future I might create my own coven, but if that’s to happen, it would most likely be a couple years from now.