It’s the smells that carry me places

Faster perhaps than a song. 
A taste. 
A photo. 
A word. 
The scent of raw gasoline on my morning walk, sent me from the streets of my neighborhood in the predawn gloom, to the shed where our gas powered lawnmower was kept as a child, to the familiar exhaust fumes of my Dad’s old pick up and straight to my Dad himself. 
In that darkness, with one of my dogs pulling me along, that scent brought my Dad into clear focus for me. 
And I missed him. 
He has been gone now for 13 years. And that in and of itself feels impossible. Yet just as impossible was the simple smell of raw gas emanating from an old car, carrying me across time and space to childhood moments where my Dad was alive, and well and doing the everyday Dad things he did.

Maybe you’ve had this experience. 
A scent drifts into your nose and the memories play across the screen of your mind’s eye. 
Or perhaps you feel someone with you. Someone who has been gone for a time. Someone who is brought back to life from the power of smell. 

It sounds kind of funny. And perhaps even impossible. Until you have it happen to you. 

During this time of year as the veils thin, we might find ourselves having a few more of these experiences than we normally do. 
Perhaps we glimpse someone in a crowd that we know to be long dead. Or a song that reminds us of them arrives at the perfect moment, or your dreams bring visitations from beyond. 

We all have the ability to connect with our beloved dead. And we may find certain times of year (like now, or birthdays or anniversaries) increase this ability. 
We also might find that different practices enhance our psychic skills or support our connection to the other side. 

During the 5th Annual Season of the Witch Virtual Conference we will have several opportunities to discover more about facilitating these connections. 

• These include:
  Learning to access the Akashic Records with Michelle Green, 
  
• Discovering Real Signs from the Afterlife with Melissa St. Hilaire
  
• Inviting our Dead to Dinner-How to Communicate with Dead Loved Ones with Jess the Death Empath
  
• And Taking the Advice of Circe- Greek Magick and Death Rituals with Irisanya Moon 
  

These are just 4 of the Witchy Workshops that will be filling our time together. 
We begin in just 5 days on the evening of October 10th.
I’ll be kicking things off with the class Hecate-Goddess of the Crossroads. 

You can find the whole line up and registration details here

See you there!

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