August's moon is called the Sturgeon Moon, Corn Moon, Barley Moon, and Ricing Moon. Since this month marks the start of harvest season, Saturday’s full moon is an excellent time to do just that – roll up our sleeves and begin reaping what we've sown. Perhaps that something is tangible—a handful of fruit or a bouquet of just-opened flowers. Or maybe your reaping is something conceptual, like a dream, a decision, or a spell planted beneath moons past.

I like to think that Caitlyn pulled our current read from the stormy summer seas, when a call for the hungry girls bobbed to the surface. Because (even if you’re only a few pages in) you’ve probably realized that August’s book club is a love letter for fiery hearts and ravenous women, the parts of ourselves that long for more, be it something sweet, something ancient, or an entire garden of yet-to-be-named desires. 

Creative mediumship is the practice of treating your creative world as a doorway. It’s intuitive art-making and channeled writing. It’s summoning music through our dreams for a new song or score. If we’re weaving stories into tapestries, crafting desk altars for our muses, or ritualizing our creativity alongside our magical world in a way that makes us feel alive, we’re already engaged with this practice.

The Literary Coven is hosting an August book club for lovers of enchanting fiction and bewitching prose. Hosted by Caitlyn Barone and Kristin Lisenby, subscribers of the Literary Coven Book Club will receive information about the latest read, as well as weekly creative prompts and practices to inspire their reading experiences and divine with their symbolic muses. They'll also be a live discussion at the end for final reflections and writing shares.

Inspired by the grain mysteries, sacred partnerships, and the recently-ripened fruits of our labor, Lughnasadh breezes in around August 1st in the Northern Hemisphere. Lughnasadh is a Gaelic fire festival, and with it comes a season of reaping. Although cross-quarter sabbats may not receive as much attention as equinoxes or solstices, these dates remain significant in agricultural communities, marking key moments in the sowing, growing, and harvesting of plants.

The Harvest gods will soon be knocking at our doors, scythes in hand, sights set on our golden fields (look for Lughnasadh lore later this month!), but not yet - not until we've met July's full moon and tasted her nectar, a blend of changing and untethered passions, a brew stirred by the one who wears the antlered crown. This month, the full moon rises on July 10th, a few weeks before the first harvest of 2025.

If Winter's cloak is woven from shadows and night, then Midsummer's is adorned with fire, ferns, and rainbow-colored lace. Also known as Litha, the Summer Solstice arrives when the sun reaches its zenith and enters the constellation of Cancer (around June 21st in the Northern Hemisphere). Traditionally, June is a busy month for land tenders and lovers, but the Summer Solstice invites people to pause.

The Summer Solstice looms, and with it, a season of romance, revelry, and ambition blooms. Folk stories of yesteryear say that our beloved fae folk were quite lively come June. As the moon waxed bigger and brighter, people made offerings to the Otherworld by scattering berries, nuts, and sweetness at the edge of their land. If you weren't sure what the wee ones like to eat, you might turn to the garden and forage for answers amidst the fruits of spring's labor.

Inspired by our fifth full moon of the year, here at Pointy Hat Press, we’re exploring the unseen with channeled writing and floromancy, and remembering that mothering is a form of magick. Mothering is ancestral work. Mothering is tending to the earth and her creatures, nurturing flowers and cultivating gardens—both above and below.

Did you know that our co-founder, Caitlyn Barone, hangs a pentagram over her front door for protection? Inspired by May’s Moon Letter, The Petals of Venus, here's how Caitlyn makes her sacred stars…

Jennifer Green joined us for the latest episode of the Pointy Hat Press podcast! Jennifer is an artist and spiritual practitioner, fully submerged and committed to a life well-lived. A former midwife, she has spent over thirty years dedicated to creative arts, healing, and her ever-evolving magical practice. She is a printmaker, illustrator, maker, clairvoyant, occasionally funny, and a lover of birds. Jennifer lives in Cornwall, where she offers spiritually informed art and other creations via her shop The Quickening Tree.

In some agricultural communities, Beltane stands at summer’s threshold. If your soil is newly thawed, your spring garden barely rooted, don’t fret – fora sabbat is not limited to a day, but a season. This means some Witches and Pagans honor Beltane on April 30th (Walpurgis Night) or May 1st, while others make their plans according to nature.

The Literary Coven is no stranger to the power of stories in spells. Whether we snag a little snippet from a story that inspires us or shares what we’re feeling, or use the tale’s message as inspiration for our incantations, or even read a bit of prose aloud during a spell, literature can act as a sage guide in the rickety, enchanted forests of spellwork.

How do you feel about the idea of truths you cannot touch, tether, or hold in your hands? How do you feel about the truths that are invisible to the naked eye, that make us question reality and whisper from the abyss - truths that initiate us into the Mysteries of the unseen?

The liminal is the territory of the witch; the liminal is where the word witch turns for creative inspiration. Liminal spaces are thin places and home to myths, magic, and creativity. The word liminal comes from the Latin limen, meaning the threshold. The threshold is the archetypal place where a writer can turn to connect with their creative impulse—that which compels the writer to put pen to paper.

Come April's full moon, the wildflowers are whispering. Our seasonal harbinger, the hare, trades its den for a shelter made of sun, and birdsong blossoms as temperatures warm. You remind yourself that in animistic communities, bird-watching is a form of divination. People from the ancient Greek world called it ornithomancy.

At Pointy Hat Press, we consider art witchery and channeled writing forms of creative mediumship. The same goes for songwriters and composers who summon music via their dreams. If you’re weaving stories into tapestries, crafting desk altars for your muses, or ritualizing your creativity alongside your magical world in a way that makes you feel alive, you’re already engaged with creative mediumship.

Here at Pointy Hat Press and Little Witch Books, we're not planning any pranks today, but we can still learn from the Fool. Whether we're talking tarot, mythology, or pop culture, the archetypal Fool is everywhere. He is the court jester, class clown, and the cunning, amorous Pan from Greek mythology. The fool is the comedian but also the courageous (yet inexperienced) maiden or shepherd setting out on a quest.

By the glow of the bonefire, and under the watch of the guardian oak tree, together you’ll explore and tell the tales of the Witches, Goddesses, potent plants, folklore, and myth.

Ostara is sometimes referenced as a type of “Pagan Easter,” when families celebrate the turn of the wheel by decorating eggs, engaging in floromancy (divination with flowers), and revisiting their favorite seasonal folklore.