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December 5th. 2010
- Wandering Through Faerie Land: Metaphor and the Semantic Landscape - Rhys Chisnall
On Midsummer’s Day, the corn stood half grown and green, knee high in Suffolk fields. The bumblebee buzzed as it flew from flower to flower and overhead high above the corn the skylark sang. The midsummer’s sun beat down from high ... Posted: December 5th. 2010 Views: 2,092 - [ Full Article ]
- Traveling In Indigenous Ecuador - Luthien
When I began this journey, I set out with the intention of going to South America to observe the lives of the native peoples, compare it to my practices of modern-day Paganism and write a merry little essay about it. While on the ... Posted: December 5th. 2010 Views: 1,941 - [ Full Article ]
- Loving Light for Our Ocean - Katharina Moonchild
I was born and raised in Florida. The beaches were always a part of my life, stretching back to the furthest reaches of my memory. I remember the way She would rock me, a deep soothing rhythm reaching back to the furthest and most ... Posted: December 5th. 2010 Views: 1,472 - [ Full Article ]
November 28th. 2010
- Spiritual Traveler: Unlearning and Conditioning - Stewart Bitkoff
He whose undertakings are free from anxious desire and fanciful thought, whose work is made pure in the fire of wisdom: he is called wise by those who see. -- Bhagavad-Gita, 4:19Traveler: It is said that in order for the s ... Posted: November 28th. 2010 Views: 1,987 - [ Full Article ]
- Discernment and the Sword - Gralyn
“Discernment, they said you are to use discernment and your sword in your teaching”. These were the first words from my very best sister/friend’s mouth when I answered her call. “They” are those whom she lovingly calls the Peanut ... Posted: November 28th. 2010 Views: 1,809 - [ Full Article ]
November 21st. 2010
- Hearth Witch Etiquette Lesson: How to Conduct Yourself When Someone Dies - Deborah Castellano
As a hearth person, there’s more to your life than just, well, magic. Besides dealing with the daily grind with aplomb, it’s also your job to assist with loved ones’ milestones, both happy and difficult. As most of this aspect is ... Posted: November 21st. 2010 Views: 3,707 - [ Full Article ]
- Turning America Back to Religion - Stewart Bitkoff
Recently there was a huge gathering in Washington, DC, led by Glenn Beck and others to call people's attention to America's shift away from a country that was based upon spiritual, wholesome living to a country that has become cen ... Posted: November 21st. 2010 Views: 2,847 - [ Full Article ]
November 14th. 2010
- The Realm of the Fae - Helena Domenic [Witchvox Sponsor]
“The Faerie Tradition is not a faith, for faery beings exist whether or not we believe in them.” -- R. J. StewartIn my many years as a visual artist, I have created many paintings of the Fae and have given a great deal of ... Posted: November 14th. 2010 Views: 5,111 - [ Full Article ]
- Before You Call Yourself A Witch - Alorer
"When can I call myself a Witch? What are the basics everyone is telling me to learn first?" In this essay I will try to provide you with some answers to these questions. Please note that this is by no means the “end-all, be-all” ... Posted: November 14th. 2010 Views: 4,985 - [ Full Article ]
- The Living Earth - Gentle Deer Lion Tamer
We have an ancient and indigenous awareness of the Earth as a living being. We attune to her through our rhythmic sleeping and waking and our receptivity to the magnetic, solar, and elemental forces. Her tectonic, ionic, magnetic ... Posted: November 14th. 2010 Views: 2,030 - [ Full Article ]
November 7th. 2010
- Apprenticing With Baba Yaga - Sarah Anne Lawless [Witchvox Sponsor]
When I was twenty years old I moved back to the province of my birth, my home. But no safe home did I move into, no, instead I lived with Baba Yaga upon my return. A small old one-story Victorian house with a Witch’s overgrown wee ... Posted: November 7th. 2010 Views: 5,578 - [ Full Article ]
- American Witchcraft - Spirit Walk Ministry
The subject of Witchcraft in America is a confusing one, the concept being muddled primarily from a basic misunderstanding of what Witchcraft is, and what it is not. Witchcraft is the name that was used by the Christian Ch ... Posted: November 7th. 2010 Views: 3,547 - [ Full Article ]
- Pantheons, Patrons, and Guides - Helena Domenic [Witchvox Sponsor]
One of the beautiful things about being Wiccan is also being a polytheist, or a pantheist. A polytheist believes in more than one deity, whereas a pantheist believes that there is divinity throughout the entire universe. As you be ... Posted: November 7th. 2010 Views: 3,437 - [ Full Article ]
- Divorce, An Initiatory Path - Diana Rajchel
In a span of life experience including broken bones, dropping out of my graduate program and developing a sometimes- debilitating chronic illness, divorce falls in the spectrum of “not the worst” but past the line marked “would do ... Posted: November 7th. 2010 Views: 3,374 - [ Full Article ]
- Healing Wounded Warriors - James Bulls
From one veteran to another, happy Veteran's Day. In the United States, Veteran's Day falls on November 11th and is the day when the nation celebrates the sacrifices of the men and women who take up arms and risk their own lives t ... Posted: November 7th. 2010 Views: 3,329 - [ Full Article ]
- Dare to Dream! - Kylia Heartsong
I recently received an email that tugged at my heartstrings. It came from a young woman who was asking for advice regarding her partner's displeasure with her choice to explore a Wiccan path. After having discussed this wi ... Posted: November 7th. 2010 Views: 2,586 - [ Full Article ]
October 31st. 2010
- A Lesson In Advanced Hearth Witchery - Deborah Castellano
When learning basics, most of us want to rush through and get to the good stuff. When can I start summoning things! When do I get enlightened! When do I light candles with the powers of my mind? What can I say? The movie The Cr ... Posted: October 31st. 2010 Views: 5,509 - [ Full Article ]
- The Three Elements of Druidic Ritual - Alison Leigh Lilly
The sun has set, and twilight settles dark over the autumn landscape. In another half an hour a harvest moon, swelling but not quite full, will rise over the eastern horizon, but for now the grove is thick with gray mist and half- ... Posted: October 31st. 2010 Views: 4,327 - [ Full Article ]
- What’s the Difference Between Faith and Fooling Yourself? - Bob Makransky
I once had a conversation with a woman who was thoroughly convinced that someday Jesus was going to bring her a “whole ton of money”. I had occasion recently to question my spirit guides on this point, in connection with some mone ... Posted: October 31st. 2010 Views: 3,628 - [ Full Article ]
- Craft of the Wise? - Rhys Chisnall
Witchcraft is sometimes called the Craft of the Wise, in fact there has been a book written with that very title by the English Witch Vikki Bramshaw. But what exactly does that mean, what do we mean by Wisdom? If an outsider were ... Posted: October 31st. 2010 Views: 3,425 - [ Full Article ]
October 24th. 2010
- The Wisdom of Stones - Kylia Heartsong
I look out onto a beautiful sunrise, the dawning of a new day filled with all the promise of what we can achieve or manifest.That’s what Magick is all about, isn’t it? We hold in our mind’s eye a single possibility. Perhap ... Posted: October 24th. 2010 Views: 2,542 - [ Full Article ]
- Dan Treecraft and Crossing the Line of Death - Dragonstorm [Witchvox Sponsor]
Dan Treecraft is a 70-something year old gentleman who is dying of tongue cancer. He lives here in the Spokane area. Mr. Treecraft made his moving story available to the public when he was interviewed by our local newspaper, telli ... Posted: October 24th. 2010 Views: 2,320 - [ Full Article ]
October 17th. 2010
- Candle Magick - Gentle Deer Lion Tamer
One of the easiest and most powerful magickal techniques utilized by both witches and folk magicians is the utilization of candles in performing a spell. Candles are readily available items, can be found most anywhere and are conv ... Posted: October 17th. 2010 Views: 3,517 - [ Full Article ]
- The Fantastic Toad - Kiki's Cauldron
With Halloween and Samhain around the corner, the image of the witch is all around us. Whether she’s posing sweetly in a vintage card or in displayed as a crone in a store’s window, she usually is in the company of her familiars: ... Posted: October 17th. 2010 Views: 2,908 - [ Full Article ]
- Hakata Divination - Crick [Witchvox Sponsor]
One thing that is notable about Neo Paganism is the habit of looking primarily towards their European roots when it comes to the mystical arts. By following such narrow parameters, one is depriving themselves of a wealth of inform ... Posted: October 17th. 2010 Views: 2,763 - [ Full Article ]
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