I get up at 4am most days and on my calendar is an alert: Daily Practice.

My computer beeps, my phone beeps, and the Catholic guilt that’s etched into my soul nudges at me.

Get up. Get coffee. Do your daily practice. No really. Do it.

Maybe tomorrow.

And since there have been too many ‘maybe tomorrow’s, I realized I needed to change things up and go back to what I know better than anything else.

Just One (Easy) Thing

I am also a person who wants to do things right — and someone whose heart is sometimes bigger than her schedule. I want to do 10 things for my daily practice every day.

I admit it now: I can’t. Well, I can’t do it consistently.

I can do a few that take up the space of 20 minutes. Maybe more if they’re short or part of a training I’m doing.

But I need to limit things or else the second I slip, I slip for days. Weeks.

I can always do one thing.

Add Magick to the Mundane

I don’t think you need to buy anything for magick (except books!), but I personally needed something new and concrete to spice things up.

My Hex the Patriarchy mug.

I’ve been drinking my coffee out of that. And I may not spend hours thinking about what that might look like, but I do call back the intention that my very presence has meaning. I call into myself the very possibility that everything I do will have an impact.

(And I remind myself of the impact I want to create.)

Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

Sometimes, daily practice is less about the way that I relate to my magick or my godds, and more about the way I relate to myself. How I remember myself, my power, and my impact.

Because, for me anyway, there is magick in everything. Whether you have a daily practice or you have a moment where you remember your magick — all of that is great.

You can come back to yourself, to your being, to the presence that is so easily swept up in everything that happens during the day.

Just five minutes of devotion. Just five minutes of quiet or chanting or staring at a candle or talking to a godd or moving your body or reading a page from a book or singing as loud as you can or repeating the Charge of the Goddess.

Whatever. Whenever. Sometimes. All the time. Repeat or not.

All of that is enough.

All of you is enough.

(an edited version previously posted on my Patheos Pagan blog, “Charged by the Goddess” – April 2019)

Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, poet, and Reclaiming initiate who has practiced magick for 20+ years. She has taught in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, bringing her blend of grounded, graceful, and radically authentic facilitation to inspire transformation and liberation at the personal and collective levels.

She has written a number of books:
Pagan Portals (Reclaiming Witchcraft – 2020, Aphrodite – 2020, Iris – 2021, Norns – 2023, Artemis – 2024, Circe – 2024, Hestia – 2025)
Earth Spirit (Honoring the Wild – 2023, Gaia – 2023)
Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being – 2020
(With Pantheon: The Greeks and The Muses to arrive in late 2025 and early 2026, respectively.)

Plus she has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for Moon Books, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, Llewellyn, Revelore Press, Girl God Books, Witches & Pagans, Pagan Dawn, Coreopsis Journal, Epona Muse Publishing, and more.

In 2023, they self-published a book of poetry, “wrecked: the insistence of grief.”

Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

For more details: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/moon-books/authors/irisanya-moon