Dragon's Lair Coven

03/24/2026

03/11/2026

Old Folk Remedy for the Luck of a Broken Mirror

In old village folklore, breaking a mirror was said to scatter your reflection into fragments.

The worry was not that something evil had happened, but that your fortune had been startled and shaken.

The old remedy was simple.

First, gather the broken pieces carefully and place them in a cloth or paper. Do not leave them scattered around the home.

Broken glass lying about was believed to keep the misfortune wandering.

Then step outside with the bundle.
Stand facing away from the house and turn three times counterclockwise.

In folk belief this motion unwinds the twist of bad luck and sends it away from your path.

After the third turn, the glass is taken somewhere away from the doorway of the home.

Some traditions say to bury it in soil, while others say to touch a tombstone or old stone marker with one shard before discarding it.

The stone was believed to draw away lingering misfortune because stone holds stillness and finality.

Once the glass is gone, wash your hands and return home. The old belief was that the bad luck had been carried off with the fragments and would not follow you back.

Many folk witches also light a candle afterward and say a simple phrase such as:
"What was broken is finished.
What was scattered is gone.
My path remains my own."

Whether one believes the superstition or not, the ritual itself serves a purpose. It marks the end of the moment and allows the mind to move forward without carrying the worry.

— Darklady

03/11/2026

Only 2 weeks until Ostara, which is on March 20th, it is celebrated on the Spring Equinox, when both night and day are at equal length. A time of great balance between light and dark.

The winter, harsh and long is now fading. The Earth is waking from her frozen slumber and it’s time to rejoice in life, warmth and a renewal of the spirit. Come celebrate and worship as we give birth to all things fresh and new. Let us reconnect with family, loved ones and friends, old and new as we turn the Great Wheel to Ostara.

On Ostara night and day stand in perfect balance, but after Ostara light will take over dark. Ostara is a fertility festival, celebrating the birth of Spring and the reawakening of life from the earth. The energies of nature subtly shift from the sluggishness of Winter to the exuberant expansion of Spring. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and new born animals. The Goddess blankets the earth with fertility as she bursts forth from her winter sleep. The young God stretches and grows to maturity as he walks the greening fields and delights in the abundance of nature.

Traditionally, Ostara is a time for collecting wildflowers, walking in nature’s beauty, planting seeds and cultivating herb gardens. This is the time to free yourself from anything in the past that is holding you back. At this time, we think of renewing ourselves. We renew our thoughts, our dreams and our aspirations.

This is an excellent time of year to begin everything new or to completely revitalize something. This is also an excellent month for prosperity rituals or rituals that have anything to do with growth. Fill your altars with any spring time flowers and seeds, coloured and painted eggs, rabbit and hare images and statues and candles of white, yellow, green, light blue, orange and gold. Any spring herbs you have such as lavender, jasmine, patchouli, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, tarragon or sunflower seeds. Use any spring crystals you may have such as clear quartz, rose quartz, agate, lapis lazuli, amazonite, sunstone, green aventurine, peridot and garnet.

The name for this Sabbat actually comes from that of the Teutonic lunar Goddess Ostara or Eostre as she is sometimes known. Her chief symbols were the rabbit or hare that represents fertility, and the egg which represents new life and rebirth. This is where the customs of “Easter Eggs” and the “Easter Bunny” originated.

03/08/2026

Shadow work is often misunderstood. Many assume it means focusing on negativity, but in reality it is the process of becoming whole. It is about meeting the parts of yourself that were pushed into silence in order to be accepted.

Every person carries a shadow. It forms in the moments when emotions, traits, or instincts were labeled unacceptable. Anger becomes something to suppress. Confidence becomes arrogance. Desire becomes shame. Over time, those parts are buried deep within the psyche.

But buried does not mean gone.

What we refuse to acknowledge still influences us. It appears in our triggers, our fears, our reactions, and the repeating patterns in our relationships and choices. The shadow is not a flaw in your character, it is the record of what you had to hide to survive.

Shadow work asks you to turn toward those hidden parts with honesty rather than judgment. Instead of asking “what is wrong with me?” it asks a different question: what part of me has been ignored for too long?

This process can be uncomfortable because it removes the illusion that growth only happens in light. Real transformation often begins in the places we avoided looking.

But this is where your power begins.

When you face the shadow, you stop being controlled by it. The anger you feared becomes a signal for boundaries. The pain you buried becomes understanding. The voice you silenced becomes clarity.

Shadow work is not about becoming darker. It is about reclaiming the parts of yourself that were never broken, only rejected.

And when you stop running from your shadow, you realize something important:

The darkness was never the enemy.

It was the doorway to knowing yourself completely.