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September 18th. 2011
- The Elements: A Personal View - Rhys Chisnall
The elements were relative latecomers to the Craft. Gerald Gardner’s Bricket Wood Coven, the first coven that we reliably know about, did not originally make use of the elements and there is no mention of them in the early Books o ... Posted: September 18th. 2011 Views: 2,687 - [ Full Article ]
- Covens and Groups: Freedom v. Loyalty - Kricket
For better or worse, I have been fairly incommunicado with my local pagan people for most of my time practicing. This led me to see the pagan community as something of an abstract idea. My only real interactions that were on the v ... Posted: September 18th. 2011 Views: 1,991 - [ Full Article ]
September 11th. 2011
- The Separation of Wand and State - Fire Lyte
Suspend reality with me just for a moment. Let’s pretend that you could wave a wand and reshape America…oh, by tomorrow. Tomorrow morning you’ll wake up and send your kids off to their public schools, except there have been a few ... Posted: September 11th. 2011 Views: 3,685 - [ Full Article ]
- Was This Religious Discrimination? - StormJewel
Recently I was looking for an SEO (search engine optimization) service to help promote a blog post I had written about Wiccan tools and supplies. I found a freelancer, who advertised the service I was looking for and submitted my ... Posted: September 11th. 2011 Views: 3,296 - [ Full Article ]
- To Be or Not To Be: The Art of Becoming Pagan - Artemis
Despite the growth and acceptance for the many major world religions and spiritual paths, there is still a hush that falls upon the crowd when one encounters a pagan. Being brought up in a Christian-based family, I know the awkwar ... Posted: September 11th. 2011 Views: 3,272 - [ Full Article ]
- Religious Discrimination in the Work Environment - Rick Wood
There have always been issues with discrimination in the workplace for many reasons. In this essay, I am going to focus on some of the key issues of religious discrimination in the work environment from the viewpoint of an employe ... Posted: September 11th. 2011 Views: 2,881 - [ Full Article ]
- The Nature of Sacrifice - Talma Stormphoenix
There is this pentacle that I’ve had to buy twice over the years because for some odd reason the chains that I bought separately have snapped after a few years and I’ve lost the pendants. Now more often than not, when the chain or ... Posted: September 11th. 2011 Views: 2,144 - [ Full Article ]
September 4th. 2011
- The Green Life versus The Silver Life - Luthien
The ol’ Witch in the woods had a couple of beeswax candles, the Sun, Moon and stars and knowledge of the uses of herbs in her area to use in her practice. The modern Witch has the world at their fingertips at the click of a mouse ... Posted: September 4th. 2011 Views: 3,364 - [ Full Article ]
- Poly-Pantheism - Winter
In pantheism it begins with the ALL, the pantheistic belief that all things are connected and all the realms of the multi verse are ONE spiritual being. ALL beings, every thing, every molecule of the universe has an energy like co ... Posted: September 4th. 2011 Views: 2,444 - [ Full Article ]
- Learning To Speak Horse - Sorbus
It was a beautiful late summer morning. The kind of perfect day with sweet air and deep blue skies. I was outside with my Arabian horse Hamdan early after leading him out of his stall. Over the next hour and half we stood together ... Posted: September 4th. 2011 Views: 2,213 - [ Full Article ]
- The First Farmer - Cyclop
Once upon a time, My Children, a very long time ago, a woman was out gathering seeds and grains. Her children were close, helping her and gathering berries. Her youngest was in a leather sling at her breast. They had to walk a lon ... Posted: September 4th. 2011 Views: 1,833 - [ Full Article ]
August 28th. 2011
- Beyond the Fluff - Maggi Setti [Witchvox Sponsor]
I've been struggling with not feeling that I want to call myself a Pagan; that somehow I missed the cultural boat. This boat feels like something I will never understand nor connect with. Yet, my religion is Wicca, and I am a Qaba ... Posted: August 28th. 2011 Views: 4,175 - [ Full Article ]
- A Witch Brewing among Catholics - Magaly Guerrero
How often do you think about the day you discovered Paganism? Not when you found it, at least not in my case—I have always been a Witch; I just didn’t call it that until I was teenager. Ironically, I saw my witchy light in ... Posted: August 28th. 2011 Views: 3,682 - [ Full Article ]
- Autumn Magick on the Wind - Lady Abigail [Witchvox Sponsor]
I am not sure whom to ask about this or if it is possible. But I was so excited to get this in so it might go on for my Great Grandmothers birthday, I send it the unedited one instead of the edited one. I know it is slated to go o ... Posted: August 28th. 2011 Views: 3,590 - [ Full Article ]
- Finding Your Pagan Moral Compass: On Letting Go - Deborah Castellano
Now, as we just discussed in my previous article, I don't really ascribe to needing to forgive every person in your life. If that person has crossed a boundary that is unforgivable to you and you no longer wish to have a relations ... Posted: August 28th. 2011 Views: 2,925 - [ Full Article ]
- Hidden Pagan Mysteries - Taliesin McKnight
The ancients held natural cycles and rhythms of nature as symbolic keys to the great cosmic mystery. We do know that the ancients had great pagan centers of learning—the great mystery schools. Unfortunately, we do not know the exa ... Posted: August 28th. 2011 Views: 2,720 - [ Full Article ]
August 21st. 2011
- True Blood Strikes Nerve With "Some" Witches - Heather Belt
I turned on my computer this past Sunday afternoon and the first thing that I see is “True Blood” trending on Yahoo.com. So being a HUGE fan of the show I click on the link expecting to find an article about an episode coming on t ... Posted: August 21st. 2011 Views: 4,217 - [ Full Article ]
- Love, Dating and the Modern Witch - Bran Cinnaedh
When it comes to dating, disclosing the particular religion or spirituality you happen to follow would seem to be relatively unimportant. In the overall grand scheme of things, it would seem that having a basic connection is more ... Posted: August 21st. 2011 Views: 3,186 - [ Full Article ]
- Witchcraft in Hollywood: a One-Way Affair - EarthandAsh
Casually curious and sick in bed, I watched The Craft the other day. Acceptably entertained but more seriously disturbed by its theft of Wiccan words and ritual, I have slowly realized the sorry state of Witchcraft in the m ... Posted: August 21st. 2011 Views: 2,850 - [ Full Article ]
- A World Without War? - Stewart Bitkoff
Over the Memorial Day Weekend, I had the long awaited opportunity to visit Gettysburg, PA and tour this immense and historic Civil War Battlefield. This is one of our National Parks with many tour guides, roads for cars, bicycles ... Posted: August 21st. 2011 Views: 1,711 - [ Full Article ]
August 14th. 2011
- Young Adult Witches: The Generation In Between - Soull the University Witch
For some youth, the world of Wicca and magick in general is a rather strange and awkward world. In middle school, they hide their new-found religious interest to “different faith” parents. In high school, they may continue on that ... Posted: August 14th. 2011 Views: 2,873 - [ Full Article ]
- Modern Paganism in Spain - Luthien
I’d like to share with you my memories of a daring leap I made last Litha, of my solo trip to a mountain retreat in the mountains of Gredos, Avila, in Spain to celebrate the solstice, and the subsequent research I carried out on m ... Posted: August 14th. 2011 Views: 2,443 - [ Full Article ]
- Reiki, Paganism and the Spiritual Path - Ryan Hatcher
I'm sure many of you know of, have heard of or even practice Reiki. But for those who are new or vaguely aware of it, allow me to explain:Reiki (pronounced ray-kee) as a word means “spiritual energy” or “spirit energy” and ... Posted: August 14th. 2011 Views: 2,203 - [ Full Article ]
August 7th. 2011
- Familiar or Pet - A Fine Line - Lione Moon
Wikipedia describes a familiar as this: “…supernatural entities that were believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic, ” and their primary purpose being to “protect the new witch coming into his/her new ... Posted: August 7th. 2011 Views: 3,362 - [ Full Article ]
- Twelve-Step Paganism (Uh... WHUT? and other exclamations of confusion) - Corvidae
Let's get the disclaimer out of the way, as we are dealing directly with any Twelve Step Anonymous Program that exists: I'm not getting paid for this, this isn't endorsed, and the only interaction with any Twelve Step executive I ... Posted: August 7th. 2011 Views: 2,920 - [ Full Article ]
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