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By Ruby Maldonado Hey, everyone! Welcome back to The Witching Weekly! I hope you all had a great Halloween, or Samhain celebration last week! I’d love to hear about it! Also, if anyone has suggestions for recipes, spells or tarot spreads, let me know! This week, I wanted to share something that I don’t use as much, but maybe you can find it useful. Sigils are really easy to make and use, and they can serve nearly every purpose! You can use a sigil wheel or the word method, or look up a specific sigil if you so please. They can be used in hairbrushes or on lipstick, in notebooks or showers/baths, clothing tags, literally anything. There are just as many ways to activate them, like burning a piece of paper or a leaf with the sigil written on it, crossing it out or tearing it, writi...

By Diedra Eby  On Saturday, Sept. 20, Professor Jon Boyd led a one-day class called “Stone Tool Making” on PCC’s West Campus. Students learned to recognize stone tools, or lithics, and their byproducts, such as debitage — the sharp-edged leftovers that scientists study to determine what was made during the flintknapping process. Some of these fragments can even be used as scraping tools Archaeologists recreate tools to study wear patterns and determine how ancient tools were used — for gathering, butchering, or cutting wood. It also helps them understand how the tools were made, which in turn supports time and labor studies of prehistoric activities, such as how long it took to chop down trees, make tools, or craft bows and canoes.  “Most of what we know about Stone Tool Maki...