Artist and author Tava Baird has been a practicing Wiccan for over thirty-five years and has mentored people interested in Paganism and Witchcraft for decades to help them take their first steps onto a new path. In this series, she puts down on paper the tried-and-true lessons she uses with her students to help you explore what it means to be a Witch.

Each lesson has additional resources online for you to access to support your journey and specific assignments to help you connect with your ancestors, the earth, and the magick inside and all around you. You don't learn Witchcraft.

You REMEMBER it. It is your birthright, buried in your bones, passed down to you from our common ancestors who connected with the elements and understood the power of the Earth and the power inherent in each of us.

This book is for the seekers, the curious, and the people who type "learn Witchcraft" into a search engine and get forty thousand slick videos in return and don’t know who to trust or where to begin (side note: Witchcraft is anything but slick. ) It’s for the people on my mentoring waiting list and the people I meet at markets and fairs who are just starting out.

It’s for the people who gather around tables in my bone-casting and poppet-making class and say "I’ve never quite fit in". It’s for those people who felt something authentic when they read The Spiral Pathways series and want to find their own stone circle.

And whether you end up as a Witch or not, you’ll hopefully at least come away with some new ideas. As a person who is passionate about history and holds a degree in archaeology, I want to preserve the Old Ways for future generations.

I believe we can learn from the past, and that the practices of our ancestors help us connect to nature. Witchcraft helps you tap into the natural, wild side of the self, and helps us all remember that we are a part of the world, not separate from it.

Welcome to the Circle. -Tava Baird.