Everything Under the Moon

Great topic! I have been thinking about how to do ritual adornment, and I'm still a little bit torn on the right way to do it. I recently led an interfaith ritual, for which I thought it was important to wear something that is not so off-putting to non-Pagans that they couldn't take me seriously (i....

Hey friends! Pallando's post on Beats Antique inspired me to start this topic. For the past few years I've been studying belly dance with a local group, which I've been absolutely loving! That's been really getting me to explore more kinesthetic forms of magic and incorporating simple dance into gro...

I've made a variant on a witch bottle once, to absorb the bad energy from one particularly manipulative individual who had it out for me. I used a lot of pins, vinegar, and cayenne pepper, sealed with black wax. It's doubling as a freezer spell as well (the bottle lives in the very back of my freeze...

Hello friends, this is a great topic, but please be mindful of forum rules that prohibit discussion of certain topics (e.g. use of bodily fluids in spells). Thanks!

I would be very cautious with making an animal into a familiar. There are many different opinions on this; some would say that animals either are or aren't a familiar. Others would say that a true familiar would make themselves known to you. And still others would say it is unethical to force an ani...

It's normal to have phases where you're very spiritually engaged, and then you get into a rut. Sometimes it takes a while to get back in, but you're on the right track just by noticing your spiritual needs. Just be patient; it'll come with time. I grew up in the suburbs where there wasn't a lot of &...

I wrote a bit about non-theistic Paganism and not needing a specific patron deity . I've definitely experienced it myself, since I grew up in an theist family. Some refer to the feeling of needing something more out there as "disenchantment" -- that our society tends to prize literal and s...

Funny, I was just reading a chapter about letting go of the "wicked vows" that we never should have made, in the book, The Twelve Wild Swans , by Starhawk and Hilary Valentine. The phrase comes from the story of the twelve wild swans, who were princes that were exiled after their little si...

"Hate" seems like such a strong word to me, and I have a hard time imagining that it's ever constructive. Usually, one's response to being wronged is anger, which is very different. Unlike some who say that anger is always a bad thing, I believe that anger (used properly) can be very const...

I think the main thing is that it's very difficult to find solid, archaeological evidence that there was ever a single matriarchal society everywhere that all practiced the same religion worshipping a single Great Goddess (much less that the one "true" religion was able to survive in a sin...

I would agree with the others here. It's your circle, and you have a right to say that it's substance free. Ritual requires a certain frame of mind that intoxication from alcohol or marijuana can negatively affect. It can be disruptive to the circle, and depending on the content of the ritual, intox...

Yes, as SpiritTalker suggested, check out our Witchcraft 101 Table of Contents . It's not set up like a course, but hopefully you'll find some wisdom aggregated from many forum members over time. I don't know if this counts as a "course", per se, but A Witch's Sacred Journey has a Year and...

Yes, your main goal should be trying to let him go ... In my experience, there are some people (including pretty much all psychic vampires) who thrive off of their toxic bonds with others. Even trying to do something like get revenge on them just feeds them and makes them stronger, while draining yo...

I stopped suppressing my intuition a few years ago, and developing an intuition about people who are dangerous or are lying is one of the best things that's happened to me. When the alarm bells and red flags are going off in my head, I don't ignore them anymore. I've occasionally made myself unpopul...

I think this is very common; I certainly have this issue myself. I think we are sometimes simply too close to the situation in order to "see" objectively. Rather than giving the message they intend, we see in them what we desire (or don't desire). That's why so often we receive advice to c...