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July 25th. 2010
- Practicing What We Preach - Kricket
Many pagans have been ridiculing each other’s paths. Though they claim to be open and accepting of other views, they are human, and therefore opinionated. When hearing of a path that disagrees almost entirely with their own, many ... Posted: July 25th. 2010 Views: 2,394 - [ Full Article ]
- Riches Upon Riches - Keyokwee
I have to really be concerned at the debate that is now waging in many religions over “wealth”. Must we walk in sackcloth, be dirt poor and have no possessions to show just how truly pious we are? It’s a central focus around so ma ... Posted: July 25th. 2010 Views: 1,728 - [ Full Article ]
July 18th. 2010
- Cooking Dinner Does Not Make You a Kitchen Witch - Deborah Castellano
I spent my twenties fighting against who I really was in oh so many ways. I didn't want to be a kitchen Witch. I thought that was the least impressive, most Holly Hobby branch of magic there is. You have to picture me from ... Posted: July 18th. 2010 Views: 6,292 - [ Full Article ]
- It's Always the Loonies... - Scott A. Johnson
I'm writing this message as someone genuinely sad over a piece of news I just read. It seems, according to news reports that a man was murdered and the news makes it sound like the deed was done during a Wiccan ritual. For a relig ... Posted: July 18th. 2010 Views: 2,849 - [ Full Article ]
- Draíochta i dTraidisiúin Gaelach: Magic (k) in Irish Tradition - Michael
Ireland is often described as a "magical place" in literature, and modern tourist brochures. Those words are indeed hard to separate from the landscape, mythology, literature, and poems that have been expressed by so many writers ... Posted: July 18th. 2010 Views: 2,604 - [ Full Article ]
- Do We Need To Defend Our Faith? - Disciple of Oghma
I have been reading a lot of articles lately discussing the Christian path and its concerns and relations with the Pagan paths. I agree with the heart and the courage I see exemplified in these people who are demanding that we sho ... Posted: July 18th. 2010 Views: 2,414 - [ Full Article ]
- Pagan Millenium - Greenhammer
The influence of paganism is everywhere and yet this word stirs up the ancient hatred, a brainwashing that has been going on for many hundreds of years, by as an illegitimate authority as there has ever been. My intention is not t ... Posted: July 18th. 2010 Views: 2,031 - [ Full Article ]
- Realities of Acceptance - Crick [Witchvox Sponsor]
I have long felt that man-made religions are a device to control the hearts and minds of fellow humans. And to my mind have little if anything to do with true spirituality in regards to the individual. This is not to say that folk ... Posted: July 18th. 2010 Views: 1,956 - [ Full Article ]
July 11th. 2010
- Bronwen’s Top Ten Non-Pagan Pagan Movies - Bronwen Forbes [Witchvox Sponsor]
Hollywood has a long illustrious history of not being very kind to us Pagans/Witches. In 1939, The Wizard of Oz gave the world (and the creators of Halloween decorations) the notion that we’re all supposed to have green ski ... Posted: July 11th. 2010 Views: 8,099 - [ Full Article ]
- Becoming a High Priest/ess - Valerie Voigt
Beginnings: I practiced for a while as a solitary for some years before beginning training with a family tradition Witch in 1978. She saw to my initiation in 1981 (as an eclectic, albeit with traditional background: this because I ... Posted: July 11th. 2010 Views: 5,425 - [ Full Article ]
- What Neo-Pagans Can Learn from African Traditions and Deities - Helena Domenic
I have been interested in the deities of Africa for a very long time, from my own lifelong relationship with the Goddess Isis to my later study of African art and subsequent scholarship in African religious arts. Africa is an enor ... Posted: July 11th. 2010 Views: 4,738 - [ Full Article ]
- The Story of an African American Wiccan Priestess - LilithSilverKrow
During my 14 years of study of Witchcraft and Wicca, Shamanism and Paganism, I have found that Pagans of Color are hard to come by, or just simply in hiding. For years of my life, I have searched far and wide to create a group bas ... Posted: July 11th. 2010 Views: 4,247 - [ Full Article ]
July 4th. 2010
- The Nine Principles of Strategic Sorcery - Jason Miller (Inominandum)
A few years back I started offering consultations and spell clinics for those Witches and Mages who seemed to have a lot of knowledge, yet still found themselves thaumaturgically impaired; unable to make practical magic with measu ... Posted: July 4th. 2010 Views: 4,523 - [ Full Article ]
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 Living in Tower Time - Diotima Mantineia [Witchvox Sponsor]
I've been getting a lot of questions recently about the astrology this summer, which is complex, powerful, and, yes, a bit scary. The situation in the Gulf is one manifestation of the current and upcoming planetary alignments. Wha ... Posted: July 4th. 2010 Views: 3,807 - [ Full Article ]
- Dream Herb Shaman Medicine: A Discussion - Alfred Willowhawk, DMsc, RMT, CTM, Shaman
What is Dream Herb, and how is it used? Is this something new? Is the usage of this herb an excuse for recreational and illegal usage of natural and legal herbs?Well, it is NOT new, nor is it an excuse for recreational usa ... Posted: July 4th. 2010 Views: 3,028 - [ Full Article ]
- The Blessed Ganja and Entheogenic Euphoria - Fire Lyte
Controversy has never been a subject that I’ve shied away from, and today’s topic is up there with some of the big ones. Drug use and abuse is a worldwide epidemic affecting whole economies, sociological structures, and is respons ... Posted: July 4th. 2010 Views: 2,479 - [ Full Article ]
- The Place of No Pity - Bob Makransky
“For the nagual Julian, self-importance was a monster that had three thousand heads. And one could face up to it and destroy it in any of three ways. The first way was to sever each head one at a time; the second was to reach t ... Posted: July 4th. 2010 Views: 2,237 - [ Full Article ]
June 27th. 2010
- The Law of Attraction: Where's MY Money Tree?! - Fire Lyte
Before today I’ve made nods to my views on the various laws of magical practice. There’s the threefold law, the law of attraction, the law of association, the law of synchronicity, the law of contagion, and on and on and on. There ... Posted: June 27th. 2010 Views: 3,086 - [ Full Article ]
- Words Have Power - Defining Wicca - Matthaios
Probably everyone in the magical community has heard the statement that "Words have power".In fact, I would go so far as to say that most people in English speaking countries have heard this phrase. This concept certain fi ... Posted: June 27th. 2010 Views: 2,955 - [ Full Article ]
- The Answers You Seek - Lady Wolfwind
My daughter tells me that the answers that I seek are in the Bible. Oh, if she only knew. She doesn’t know me very well. I laugh to myself. I don’t seek any answers. I am at total peace within myself. I know that the answers will ... Posted: June 27th. 2010 Views: 2,718 - [ Full Article ]
- Quantum Gods - Wulfcempa
Niels Bohr, one of the pioneers in the field of quantum mechanics, once said, “Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not understood it.” The strange things that physics at the quantum level has revealed to us over the past c ... Posted: June 27th. 2010 Views: 2,096 - [ Full Article ]
- Good vs. Evil…Light vs. Dark. What Is The Truth? - Sleeping Moon
I understand that in writing this article, I might (more than likely) get some uproar about it. I'm willing to spout off what I am thinking and am willing to accept the consequences. I'm going to go ahead and start off scientifica ... Posted: June 27th. 2010 Views: 1,960 - [ Full Article ]
June 20th. 2010
- In Defence of the Masculine - Luthien
Why is it that far fewer men than women are attracted to Paganism, and specifically in Wicca far fewer still? Why do covens that celebrate and practice a religion that promotes a balanced gender polarity often aim but struggle to ... Posted: June 20th. 2010 Views: 3,068 - [ Full Article ]
- The Sustainability of Music in Paganism - Alfred Surenyan
The Neo- Pagan Movement has now been active for roughly 50-60 years. The movement included the birth and growth of several different religions including Wicca, Feri, Reclaiming, Druidism, and many other traditions. Any type of org ... Posted: June 20th. 2010 Views: 2,960 - [ Full Article ]
- Grounding, Centering and Balance - Nita [Witchvox Sponsor]
Over the years I have told people hundreds of times to ground their energies, center their energies, and balance their elements. It is supposed to be taught everywhere and be common knowledge. Yet most people do not know how to do ... Posted: June 20th. 2010 Views: 2,692 - [ Full Article ]
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