So you spoke to elders then at the conclusion, satisfied, were asked 'do you know chloe'. Hmmm... are you sure they meant someone else and didn't mean you? I mean... its so very reminiscent of a naming to me. Mine was long ago but not in dissimilar circumstances (though I probably disputed more whil...

I dare say the shadow side of Sinterklaus! Or indeed like the high and low aspects of Jupiter: The rewarding, selfless divine father and the punative self-interested tyrant. Where do we really believe the commonly held image of the Christian God comes from; technically it would be considered a grav...

No (in answer to the original question). And I apologise if I waffle on below. Personal waffle only; its flow. Nothing is entirely necessary in magic unless it is believed/intuited to be a taboo or ban (a psychological no-no which will disrupt your focus; you believe it will be a problem, forsee it ...

Lots of complex ideas have been projected onto the pentagram. I don't discount any of them. The study of symbolism is however almost study within simplification. So I would hazard, It's a two dimensional representation of a very familiar three dimensional model. The circle (the sacred enclosure), th...

(cut from a previous thread) ... With the deities that arise, I have found it pays to research them, their stories, their miens and their purview, their poetry and art - both old and modern - and try to tap into their aspect and their energy. Meanwhile the watched, watches. Force finds form. Like In...

Eleventy-seven is a Conservative estimate, especially as there are many among us with suspicions but who don't entirely care to define the parameters of exactly what deity is at all . The human need to corner off hard definitions, set rigid parameters, neat boxes and frames is as cold iron to elves;...

I mean much of witchcraft was to be preformed skyclad yet that is impractical in the dead of winter! Maybe a quick polar plunge, but beyond that...EEeeeeeek! BB, FF (personal thoughts. Some tongue in cheek) Cold. Wind. Rain. Sudden hail. Mud. Pebbles. Thorns. Nettles. Thistles. Candlewax. Doorbells...

Charge of the Goddess (by Doreen Valiente) Now listen to the words of the Great Mother, who was of old also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Dana, Arianrhod, Isis, Bride, and by many other names. At her altars, the youth of Lacedaemon in Sparta made ...

Telekinesis.

I get up and move the damn pencil.

It took me no time at all to become a true master of this.



I sympathise, my sister can't wear a mechanical or electronic watch without killing it.

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'... That's not my area ...'

- Michael

It's a good idea when looking at 'Karma' to forget everything Western civilisation has come to suppose 'karma' is - what has become its 'pop' (popular) or common usage - and go directly to Eastern sources. In essence, karma isn't some huge invisible vengeful god, waiting in the wings to reward you f...

The Witches rede (a rede is council or advice not instruction, rule or 'law'). Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill, An it harm none do what ye will. This is attributed to Doreen Valiente, known as the mother of modern witchcraft. It is similar to - some may postulate a response to - the often misquo...

FYI In its originative usage (as opposed to modern usage), 'virgin' does not mean the same thing as 'chaste'. Being a virgin or a maiden meant not married and free to choose sexual partners. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, and Isis were all considered virgin goddesses, which did not refer in any way to sexu...

I'm not terribly fond of polarisation, politics or any - ism... least of all literal-ism with regard to esoteric matters. Esoterically: Men have got female energies, so do women (and vice versa) in respect to exactly what is trying to be expressed by those terms = expressive and receptive. Call it y...

A pleasure. With the deities that arise, I have found it pays to research them, their stories, their miens and their purview, their poetry and art - both old and modern - and try to tap into their aspect and their energy. Meanwhile the watched, watches. Force finds form. Like Intuition, once the qui...

From experience - It the form felt 'primal' and had a 'gravity' (can't think of a better word to describe it) it would seem likely the horned God. If you summoned divine energies into a protected circle, you invited him in. Certainly if you cried 'Io evohe' which was an estatics cry to Dionysus / ba...