 Hello people! I'm Jenny Metherill. I am a fourth generation witch. Today's video is more of a popular Almanac series. Welcome! This is where I look at what witchcraft you can do on witch days during the month of April. Always with these videos what I like to do is to give you a general overview of the witchcraft trends that are happening throughout the month of April and then we'll look at the nitty gritty day to day detail and watch witchcraft you can do when. So with that said let's start with our overview. Now today's overview is a little different. It came about because for the last few weeks every single person be they client, family, friend, distant acquaintance, anybody in fact that I have spoken with and asked them you know how they are what they've been up to. Everyone has said oh it's been awful it's been so dreadful and I've been then looking at my own particular circumstances and they haven't been the best. Little difficult here and there. So what is going on? Why is the whole world in a period of doom and gloom? So I asked my spirit guides and so my spirit guides first of all just said go and look to the heavens and so I did and this is what I found. On March the 23rd Pluto entered into Aquarius. Now this doesn't really mean that much to me I'm not an astrologer although I can understand the basic principles of it however this hasn't happened for 200 years and Pluto is a transformer it means that we're having a cosmic reset. Now as much as the moon will hugely impact upon our natures, the sea, any water on this planet likewise even if you don't believe in astrology the impact that a massive planet like Jupiter or Saturn can have via their gravitational pull on us mere mortals down on earth is extant. So it's a bit like when you have a kitchen cupboard and you think oh clear up that kitchen cupboard and what you do is you go in and you take everything out of that kitchen cupboard and you wipe out the inside and then you turn around and there's a massive mess. You start going through the mess and putting everything back neatly and then you discover some terrible things that are occurring in the pots that you've taken out like they should have been thrown away 20 years previously. Well this is a bit like the cosmic reset that we are having. When I looked into this it makes perfect sense I bet you that all of you out there are going through a little bit of a hard time everything seems to be going wrong there's things and events happening because these need to happen in order to reset our world and this reset unfortunately takes a little time. The whole of April is going to be taken up for this and most of May until about May the 15th when Jupiter the planet of luck abundance fertility wealth and general good stuff comes into alignment again. The last time this reset happened with Pluto we had the American Civil War and the French Revolution. So there is going to be a better outcome after all this has happened just takes a while for all this to happen. So sorry about that it's a bit of a rubbish intro to the month isn't it? When I looked at this I did appeal to the spirit guide you know what this period of transformation meant and they said all periods of transformation are incredibly disruptive and bring up all sorts of rubbish to the fore and so we just have to live with it. Good luck. I suggest you draw a calming spell cast a circle stand in the circle bring calming energies into you so that you can ride the storm. Finally for this introduction I just wanted to let you know about willow. April is a time for willow it is when it comes into bud into flower willow is one of the first trees in leaf. Now April is the traditional time for witches to make wands from willow so should you be passing a stand of willow please do feel free to go and cut some wands from the tree asking the tree its permission of course. As well you can do some wish magic with willow if so if you take your willow tree and tie a knot into one of the branches making your wish as you do. When the wish has come true though be very very careful and to remember unlike me to take the knot out of the willow because otherwise this will upset the fey and they might tamper with your wish. So that is my rather upsetting overview for the month of April it's not great is it? You can make your willow wands however witches always fun I love a willow wand they're lovely and flicky and so they're great for fast growing and abundant spells because that's the energy that they hold in them. So having done the overview let's now look at the nitty gritty days and of course we start with the first of April and for those of you who weren't born in a rock this is of course April Fool's Day. Now April Fool's Day is simply a day where you play pranks on each other it has been going on for several hundreds of years more than we think most likely it was normally considered the day that you sent people out on errands which were pointless so you might send them to go and find or buy some hen's teeth or a book about the mother of Eve who of course doesn't exist because I think that's got in the Christian faith. The Christians claim this is the day that Noah sent out his first dove from the ark on the great flood to check for land and of course the dove came back and there was nothing there's nothing at all there's no land and so therefore this was a fool's errand for him however who knows but beware should you carry out a prank on somebody else after midday you'll become the fool so take note of that the 6th of April it's the night of the full moon there are lots of names for this full moon the pink moon the budding moon the green shoots a moon but I like the anglo-saxon egg moon because of course April is when we're completely inundated with eggs everybody and their mother is allaying at the moment the full moon this year is in Libra and as you know each full moon brings its own energies Libra is all about connections and clarity within your relationships and so should you wish to really understand what's going on in somebody else's life or not as the case may be depending on how bad it is and so you can do a great relationship spell on this full moon or the moon water that you make is great for use in emotional rituals the 7th of April is known in the Christian faith as Good Friday part of their Easter celebrations now on Good Friday in the UK we used to eat the traditional hot cross bun which is just a spiced bun by any other name and the hot cross bun has a lot of superstitions going with it some of these superstitions have obviously been annexed from some older traditions so I'm going to tell you about them should you bake some hot cross buns what you need to do is take one of those hot cross buns and hang it up in your kitchen tradition states it will never go mouldy and actually they don't tend to go mouldy I think that's because of all the sugar and spices that help preserve the buns that are in them now if you then have a digestive complaint throughout the year you can grate some of that disgusting hard old knot mouldy hot cross bun that's hanging from your ceiling and put it in some hot water and drink it and cure it I don't recommend that please don't try it it sounds revolting however by hanging up your hot cross bun you will ensure that for the rest of the year your bread will rise your boats will not be shipwrecked and most importantly of all your house will not burn down so what can I say apart from have a go the widow's son's pub in east London has a great tradition for this and should you wish to go and see them do it and are in London I would recommend it sounds like a fab ceremony to go and look at this leads us on to the 14th of April which is known as Easter Sunday now I'm not really going to go into Easter Sunday today in this video because obviously it was a massively pagan festival two varying spring goddesses and so I will release a pagan Easter video in due course so watch out for that it's only gone the 14th of April and this is one of my favorite days of the year because it means that spring is really here it is apparently the day that the cuckoos start calling although they have called a bit earlier last year and as of course you all know the cuckoo comes in April it sings its song in May by the end of June it changes your tune and July it flies away now cuckoos are highly superstitious but I'm very prolific in egg laying they can lay 50 eggs up to in a season which I think is quite a lot if you hear a cuckoo calling for the first time in the year especially on this day count the number of calls it makes because that is the number of years you either have left to live left to get married or to have that many children however I do like to hear the cookies call the 20th of April has the new moon rising in Aries new moons have new energies depending on the star sign that they go through and Aries is all about courage and strength so should you wish to do some new moon rituals for courage and strength and today is perfect for that it is also the day when there is a solar eclipse remember what I said in the introduction about the cosmos resetting itself solar eclipses are often seen as a sign of things being reset it is an ending and a beginning the sun can be born again after its totality and renewed however this solar eclipse you can only see in the southern hemisphere you can't see it in the northern hemisphere but it is a strange one it's a hybrid one so it goes through different stages of different types of solar eclipse I don't really understand it I haven't looked into it because it's not happening near me and therefore selfishly I've decided not to bother with it however a solar eclipse in a new moon is always a sign that something is afoot the 22nd of April is when the lyrid meteor shower is at its peak and this is a beautiful meteor shower it's got excellent trails and you can see up to I think they say 40 meteors an hour should you so care to look what do you do when you see a shooting star you of course make a wish upon it this brings us around quickly to the 23rd of April 23rd of April is st. George's day the patron saint of the UK now there's a lot of guff written about st. George historically yes he was a character that arose in Asia Minor and killed dragons around that part of the world but there's so many traditions about st. George in this country my favourite is that there is dragons hill in offington in offsetshire which is where st. George slayed the dragon and when he slayed the dragon the blood from the dragon was so poisonous that it killed all the grass and all the growth on top of this hill and this you can still see today it's rather charming and is it I love st. George he was always one of my favourites he was blatantly a wizard because he went around slaying dragons and if you follow the traditional folktale of it he used a blue girdle which is a belt from a young maiden that's quite wizardy isn't it so we like st. George st. George is actually said to have been buried at a site in Warwickshire and he was buried in the crossroads where he had a stake through his heart and this stake then grew up into a massive elm tree in Shakespeare's day which is the 1600s this elm tree was considered old then and it lasted until the 1950s where upon it suffered a great fire damage I'm not quite sure how I can't find any evidence to tell me whether it was lightning or it was set alight and it died the elm that grew above st. George's grave was said to bleed red blood and this was tested by a professor of Oxford in the 1920s I believe he went and cut the bark from the tree and it did ooze red sap out magical in the extreme I think you'll find st. George's day otherwise is the day to pick your dandelions it's as long as they have been bathed in the sunshine that day and make your dandelion wine now dandelion wine is full of the gloriousness of spring and so will help you come to Nirvana or wherever you'd like to go to by mid-summer's eve which is when you drink it 24th of April instant marks eve now this is one of the major divination nights of the year meaning that should you wish to know who you are going to marry you could go to a graveyard and pluck some grass therein place that grass underneath your pillow and you will have prophetic dreams about your future partner yeah sounds a bit dubious to me I think I'd rather place other things underneath my pillow to divine my future partner otherwise it is the night where you should be able to go to the porch of your parish church at midnight on st. Mark's eve you will see the wraiths of all those people who are going to die within the year enter the church should the wraiths enter the church and not come out they're definitely going to die should they come out they're just going to have a very serious illness but beware if you do this once it means that you have to continuously do it there's no real indication of what happens if you'd stop watching the wraiths enter the church at midnight on st. Mark's eve but I suspect you probably become one who knows anyway so this is your major divination day the 30th of April is known as valperga snacked which is the night of valperga whoever she was which was some christian saint who was imposed upon this day because the 30th of April is actually the devil's birthday it is intermingled with the first of may which is mayday festival of course however the 30th is when the witches were riding out together and climbing the spiral mountain there is in glastonbury the glastonbury tour and although the tour itself is a natural feature of the landscape it has been dug into with earthenworks to form a spiral ascent towards the top of the tour if the witches climbed the spiral tour saying their incantations they were given great knowledge and they renewed their vows to the dark one the dark one was their god of whatever time that was who the christians then turned into the devil the the welsh considered this night therefore one of the three great spirit knights of the year where the veil between the two worlds is at its thinnest the name that the welsh gave to this night was tear nos is fridnos if i've pronounced that correctly do let me know in the comments if i haven't being one of the three great spirit divination knights the next night of course is mid-summer and the last night is halloween but tonight also should you wish to communicate with the dead this is the night to do it so you must watch out because not only are the witches the dark witches flying up the spiral mountains to the top to renew their oaths to the dark one but there is also the wild hunt who sweeps across the land collecting the dead souls and taking them to the other world so you don't really want to go out tonight however if you do you should put a tray of moss outside of your door to let the fairies dance upon it because once the fairies dance upon your moss that will bring good luck towards your home so it's a charming way to end april do let me know which is your favorite tradition and whether you're going to follow any of them i like them all obviously and should i get the chance i will try and follow each single one of them but do let me know in the comments below my cover meeting is coming up for april do go to patreon.com to join us last time we did a bit of astral traveling and every single member managed to do their astral traveling it was brilliant come and join us and you'll be able to have a go and i promise you you'll do it too otherwise please do like and subscribe because i need your subscriptions to help this channel continue and i will see you next week and if you've got this fur you must like me somewhat so i've made you a binge worthy playlist