From Dr. Halo Quin Magic & Musings Join The Enchanted Academy Here The Fair Folk & The Dead Hello lovelies, As part of the restructure of TEA I'm moving to offer just one or two free events in community each month, so on 9th June will be our only official Faery Circle this summer... If faery magic calls to you, then do join me for magical circle in The Enchanted Academy. Our topic: The Fair Folk and the Dead. All through history and folklore faeries have had a surprising connection to the...
21 days ago • 1 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin Magic & Musings Join The Enchanted Academy Here June 2025 Hello lovelies, June is upon us! The summer is always a busy time for me as a performer and teacher, and I've been looking at how best I can support the community while honouring my body, mind, and self, just as I tell my students to do.I'm restructuring my courses and memberships, and I'll be sharing an update in the next week or two about what's changing, what's new, and what this means for you!This month we'll...
26 days ago • 3 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin Magic & Musings Join me at the FREE Witch's Allies Conference Faeries & Other Allies Hello lovelies, Do you follow me on instagram? If so you'll have seen me sharing faery magic tips all last week leading up to the summit that starts tomorrow! Tomorrow I'm teaching the class I wish I'd had when I started out in magic, on practical steps to work with the Fair Folk and historical signs that I wasn't mad, they really were there and they really have been our magical allies for...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin at The Enchanted Academy Magic & Musings Join TEA for FREE classes & community Here A Witch Alone? Hello lovelies, I count my blessings that we magical people can connect across the world through the magic of the internet. Magical Allies are so important. Growing up it was so challenging to find other people to share this passion of mine with, to learn with. I was actually lucky enough to live near Avebury, the largest megalithic stone circle in the world, where many pagans...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin Magic & Musings Join TEA for FREE classes & community Here The Merry Month of May Hello lovelies, Beltane is here in the Northern Hemisphere and that means it is Faery Season! (Though really, it's always Faery season...) Have you ever seen a faery? Would you know if you had? According to historians the word "fae" originally meant a "magical" or "fated" person. It was given to humans who were in those liminal spaces between the workaday world and a world of possibility, who...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Last Call: Rope for Ritual & Magic! Hello lovelies, Here's your last call to catch my new online course in "Rope for Ritual and Magic"! Prep work is already available! As promised, I've been brewing an introduction to using self-tying with rope for ritual, trance, and magic to offer to you and I'm so excited to share this work. Our first live session is tomorrow, in about 26 hours time, on Saturday 19th April, 9pm UK time. I've set this time late in my evening to try to make it more...
2 months ago • 1 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin Notes of Love & Magic Join TEA for classes & community Here 14th-20th April 2025 Hello lovelies, I'm just back from a weekend of learning about Conjuring at The Visible College with David Rankine and a delightful bunch of students and we even got to talk a little about conjuring faeries. Definitely a lot to digest... but there's plenty going on at TEA this week too. Tomorrow, Tuesday 15th April, is our third class of Cauldron of Awen, exploring storytelling magic. First two...
2 months ago • 2 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin Notes of Love & Magic Join TEA for classes & community Here 7th-13th April 2025 Hello lovelies, What's on your reading pile currently? I'm working through Historiola by Carl Nordblom, (on how narrative charms might actually work), Demonizing the Queen of Sheba, by Jacob Lassner (a fascinating study of how this powerful queen's story has evolved and been understood) and True Grimoire by Jake Stratton-Kent (the pieces on how pagan deities become described as demons, while...
3 months ago • 5 min read
From Dr. Halo Quin Notes of Love & Magic Join TEA for classes & community Here What's new in April 2025 Hello lovelies, Today, 31st March, is our monthly Storytime livestream, episode 5 of the podcast from The Enchanted Academy, the bonus episode of TEA with Halo & Sara, is out today, and I wanted to remind you that the Cauldron of Awen starts tomorrow on 1st April! You can still join us in the Enchanters' Circle and get the Cauldron of Awen, plus past courses including Deities of Love,...
3 months ago • 3 min read