Self-Love Ritual
I’ve tried to make this as accessible as possible, but feel free to change things to suit. The goal is to create magical change in a calming and pleasurable way that invokes your senses to ground you in reality and…
Fertility Spell
Preferred Timing: Waxing or Full moonMonday or FridayYule ’til Litha Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon poppy seeds 1 Tablespoon rice 1 Tablespoon lavender flowers 5 dried rose petals 1 clear quartz crystal (wand shape) 1 green agate (round shape) or white pearl…
Reading Log for 2018
Below is a list of the books I read last year that relate to my spiritual and magical practice. Non-Fiction (84) Identity and the Quartered Circle: Studies in Applied Wicca by Dorothy Louise AbramsThe Everything Tarot Book by Skye AlexanderFind…
Recommended Books: Intro to Paganism
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler To Walk a Pagan Path: Practical Spirituality for Every Day by Alaric Albertsson The Path of Paganism: An Experience-Based Guide to Modern Pagan Practice by…
Book Review: King of the Witches by June Johns
“King of the Witches” is a hugely entertaining, if pretty fantastical, biography of one of the leading figures of modern pagan witchcraft, Alex Sanders. Published in 1969 by June Johns, an author described as having “made a living from writing…
Witchcraft Today: Chapter 5 & 6
Notes made while reading “Witchcraft Today” by G.B.G Fairies GBG sees “little people” as pygmies, conflating European legend with current African & South-East Asian races pre-Celtic races, small and strong, good friends but dangerous enemies witches often intermarried with them;…
Witchcraft Today: Chapter 4
Notes made while reading “Witchcraft Today” by G.B.G Would-be witches, or those who attended heathen sabbats intelligent classes, inc. craftsmen, soldiers, merchants, doctors, sailors, farmers and clerks people seeking adventure the ‘bright young things’ of the time those looking for…
Witchcraft Today: Chapter 3
Notes made while reading “Witchcraft Today” by G.B.G Reincarnation and the God Horned God as god of death and resurrection, reincarnation, the next world, comforter & consoler Next world, god’s realm, follows life and acts as a place of rest…
Reading – What Witches Do: Introduction
What Witches Do by Stewart Farrar was first published in 1971, after the author, a journalist, was sent to interview Alex Sanders, the founder of Alexandrian Wicca. Farrar was charmed by Sanders and his witch cult, and set about writing…
What is Paganism?
Generally: roots in ancient world religions, particularly of Europe ancestral beliefs & values adapted to modern life various religions and traditions identify as pagan polytheism: multiple separate gods pantheism: all is god diversity and pluralism encouraged awareness of female divinity…