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November 18th. 2012
- Cultivating your Inner God or Goddess - Mirror
Anyone who has ever attended Sunday school knows the story of Adam and Eve, but there is still so much mystery to it. What does it all really mean? Some consider it to be a type of trope, while others consider it to be literal. Ma ... Posted: November 18th. 2012 Views: 1,626 - [ Full Article ]
- An Introduction to Shamanism - Greyshaman
The word shaman means "He/she who knows". It is a word in the Evenki language (Tungus) from Siberia in the north of Asia and was introduced to the West in the 1500s.Through frequent use, it has become a widely accepted loanword to ... Posted: November 18th. 2012 Views: 1,577 - [ Full Article ]
- Dianic Roots in the Neo Pagan Movement - Janice Van Cleve
The modern manifestation of Paganism is called the Neo Pagan Movement to distinguish it from the great mass of ancient or aboriginal religions that are also lumped together as Pagan. The distinguishing feature of the Neo Pagan Mov ... Posted: November 18th. 2012 Views: 1,395 - [ Full Article ]
- The Kemetic Creation: A Personal Interpretation - Selene Auset - Nebthet
Author’s Note: The passage below is a vague creation story that I use for my set of beliefs. I have compiled it based on the sum of my knowledge to date from the books and programs I have studied. Some may agree with what I have l ... Posted: November 18th. 2012 Views: 1,242 - [ Full Article ]
November 11th. 2012
- Rantings of a Former Fluff Bunny - Shayi Wright
I grew up in a sort of Christian household. We only attended church from time to time until I was about six, when I started going to Sunday school every week with my cousins. I heard all the cute little Bible stories that every ki ... Posted: November 11th. 2012 Views: 2,539 - [ Full Article ]
- Service - The Redneck Pagan
A while ago I was watching a television show with my husband. In this show there was a society that was divided into Castes: The Worker Caste, the Warrior Caste and the Religious Caste. Each Caste had their own leaders, and the le ... Posted: November 11th. 2012 Views: 1,531 - [ Full Article ]
- Minority Religions and Community - Blackbird
Let's face it, Neopagans, we are a minority. There are still some who live in fear of repercussions if it were ever to get out what their religious calling may be. Assuming we are discussing those who are serious in regards to the ... Posted: November 11th. 2012 Views: 1,499 - [ Full Article ]
November 4th. 2012
- Faith in Times of Crisis - Oracle
August 21, 2012 will be a day I will not forget… I was driving home from work and it was storming out. This isn’t unusual for Florida this time of year. It’s the Wet Season after all. Constant flashes of lightning and scattered wa ... Posted: November 4th. 2012 Views: 2,290 - [ Full Article ]
- What Is A Spell? - Michael Woods
In Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, and other Magickal studies we very often hear the word, ‘Spell’, but how many of us know what goes into a proper spell? Some folks think of the old fairy tales, with 'Eye of Newt' and 'Toe of Frog' ... Posted: November 4th. 2012 Views: 1,918 - [ Full Article ]
- Religion, Faith, and Worship...Oh My! - Blackbird
Add dogma and doctrine to the list of words that seem to be taboo in some Neopagan communities. Many have come from Judeo-Christian households or locales and have deemed these words to be negative, restricting, or down right offen ... Posted: November 4th. 2012 Views: 1,853 - [ Full Article ]
- The Perfect Athame - The Redneck Pagan
As some of you may recall, I have recently decided to go back to the basics of my knowledge and experience and begin a process of going deeper. And for those of you who are scratching their heads and wondering if I spent too much ... Posted: November 4th. 2012 Views: 1,841 - [ Full Article ]
- Walking A Warrior's Path: Reflections on the Divine Masculine. - Rev.Roman Delgado
There is so much in the Pagan community said about the Goddess. For what I have read, the birth of the modern Neopagan movement began with the revival of the way of the great goddess. It is a great relief to many men and women bot ... Posted: November 4th. 2012 Views: 1,838 - [ Full Article ]
- Dance As Magick - Zehara Nachash [Witchvox Sponsor]
I am a dancer by nature. I have been dancing since childhood. I have studied various forms of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, Russian Gypsy, African and Belly Dance. Dancing is what I do when I am happy, sad, stressed, anxious, ... Posted: November 4th. 2012 Views: 1,374 - [ Full Article ]
October 28th. 2012
- Calling The Directions - Janice Van Cleve
Neo Pagans are generally a widely diverse, creative, and flexible lot who really don’t follow many rules and definitely don’t like to be told what to do. However, there are some practices that have come into common usage for our r ... Posted: October 28th. 2012 Views: 2,353 - [ Full Article ]
- Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Spell? - Lady Nikata
Once upon a time in the land of far, far away there was a young witch who was interested in performing a spell for her family. The witch looked up lore and tales about several spells that would suit her purpose. She performed them ... Posted: October 28th. 2012 Views: 2,271 - [ Full Article ]
- Dreams, Lucid Dreaming and Out of Body Experiences - Rhys Chisnall
We all dream, every night, although we may not always remember them. Dreams occur in the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) state of consciousness that occurs in sleep. This is when the brain activity is high and resembles being awake. Appa ... Posted: October 28th. 2012 Views: 2,233 - [ Full Article ]
- The Magick and the Mundane - Moon Willow Witch
We as Witches and Pagans are ordinary people living a not so ordinary life. We must find a balance to keep the magick alive within us.Every morning when I wake up, I move the curtains aside a little bit and look outside. I ... Posted: October 28th. 2012 Views: 1,761 - [ Full Article ]
- Reincarnation - Fact or Fantasy? - The Cat, The Book, and The Candle
Who among us has never asked ourselves questions like “Why am I here?” “What is the point to all of this anyway?” “Have I been here before?” “Will I be here again?” “What happens after we die?”With a trained Hypnotherapist ... Posted: October 28th. 2012 Views: 1,602 - [ Full Article ]
October 21st. 2012
- Fight or Flight: What Would a Pagan Do? - Strega Viola [Witchvox Sponsor]
“Fight or flight?” Walter Cannon coined the phrase to describe the reaction to threat by the central nervous system as a response that dominates the instinct of both humans and animals on this planet. In other words, we either run ... Posted: October 21st. 2012 Views: 1,772 - [ Full Article ]
- Ecovillage Dreams: Redux - LoreCaster
Due to the popularity, I suspect, of the Witchvox website, it's taking months and months to publish a single article through the editing process. I cannot even begin to express my respect for the attention to detail of the staff o ... Posted: October 21st. 2012 Views: 1,446 - [ Full Article ]
- If You're Not Failing, You're Not Succeeding Either... - Solonius
No one enjoys failing. It should go without saying, but there is an important reason that failure in our life is necessary. It is the only process that offers real growth. Your achievements make a more memorable impression upon yo ... Posted: October 21st. 2012 Views: 1,355 - [ Full Article ]
October 14th. 2012
- Easy Self-Healing Techniques for a Beginning Witch - Rev. Natasha Hiller
When you’re new to The Craft it is easy to get overwhelmed by memorizing different herbs, oils, incenses, Holidays or Days of Celebration, and so on. So when you come down with a cold or have back pain you instantly think “Let me ... Posted: October 14th. 2012 Views: 3,527 - [ Full Article ]
- Faking Possession: A Deep Concern for the Pagan Community - Maggi Setti [Witchvox Sponsor]
I have noticed a disturbing trend in the Pagan festival scene of people manifesting symptoms similar to that of possession. These incidences crop up in several different ways and all of them are damaging to Pagan community. I hope ... Posted: October 14th. 2012 Views: 2,852 - [ Full Article ]
- The Schizophrenic Pagan: Opening up the Mind - Corvidae
Let's begin by making a few things about schizophrenia clear. It commonly involves psychotic episodes in which we hallucinate (usually audio or visual) , have severe mood swings, unrealistic delusions and sometimes even black outs ... Posted: October 14th. 2012 Views: 2,198 - [ Full Article ]
- Magical Thinking - A.O.Spare
New Thought Movement and the (DVD) The Secret has much merit but both fall short on practical advice and cautionary warnings. The magick community also has its problems and misunderstandings with the true nature of phenomen ... Posted: October 14th. 2012 Views: 1,740 - [ Full Article ]
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