The latest in NeoPagan News http://www.witchvox.com http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usca&c=words&id=15435 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usca&c=words&id=15435 A young woman had done quite a bit of reading and some solitary practice, and felt the Wiccan Path was where she belonged. After some time, she felt she was ready to expand her Craft understanding by studying with a teacher. She had finally found someone who had offered to teach her, but she wasn't entirely comfortable with the idea. He assured her that he was a Lord High Purple Robe Something-or-Other, and therefore well qualified to be a teacher, but this and quot;assurance and quot; didn't make her more comfo http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usfl&c=words&id=15431 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usfl&c=words&id=15431 It's a beautiful Saturday morning. The sun is shining brightly through my windows as I sit here typing, sipping my coffee with my cat curled on my lap listening to him purr quietly. In my soul I am grateful for these moments when I feel completely at peace. I've begun to feel these moments more often lately. I've also found time to cook and garden and sew. I've found the time to play with my children and listen to music and laugh. Finding this time has not come easily. It's been a long h http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usca&c=words&id=15427 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usca&c=words&id=15427 There are many other ways we can move our bodies to raise and charge personal magickal energy, and I will discuss a few of these methods in this essay. The first idea to come to many a witch's mind is dancing, but what if you have limited mobility?DanceYou do not have to be able to walk in order to dance. Swaying or meaningful hand gestures are as elegant and as powerful. You do not even have to move to dance. As a magick worker, you already have a vivid imagination. A dance t http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=iexx&c=words&id=15388 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=iexx&c=words&id=15388 The ritual form here detailed is that of the Wiccan circle. It derives from the mystery tradition of Wicca, a tradition synthesized from older constituents by Gerald B. Gardner and others in the 1940's. It incorporates many diverse spiritual materials including ancient pagan ideas, neo-Pagan forms, material from medieval grimoires and from fraternal esoteric movements, the most explicit content being from the OTO and freemasonry.Wicca is an initiatory mystery tradition and as suc http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ustx&c=festivals&id=15437 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ustx&c=festivals&id=15437 Catching wind of something going on in Houston for pagans, something really big, my ears perked to hear Houston Pagan Conference. Looking for something in and around Houston, only three words came to mind for me: and quot;About damn time. and quot;Houston covers over six hundred square miles, has millions in its population and surrounding areas, and is the largest port city in the United States. Based those numbers, I would have the inclination to believe that there has to be a large pagan populac http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usaz&c=passages&id=15433 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usaz&c=passages&id=15433 Gail Loose returned to the arms of the Goddess on May 10, 2013 after a long battle with cancer. She was the High Priestess of the Coven of Danu in Phoenix, AZ and was the co-founder of the Arizona Line of the Mohsian Tradition. She took on the role of Priestess for the Coven in November of ’84 when the founding High Priestess turned it over to her, and ran it wisely and ably up until May 1st when, on her deathbed, she turned the coven over to a new High Priestess.Gail was the epitome of http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usor&c=words&id=15428 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usor&c=words&id=15428 The concept of identity in magic first fascinated me when I encountered the subculture of Otherkin. My perception of that subculture was the people in it were primarily obsessed with proving that they were something that wasn’t human, whether it was an angel, dragon, elf, coyote, etc. More specifically, while they acknowledged they had a human body, they felt that their soul and identity was not human. What I found so fascinating was the fixation on identity itself, which I’d never seen focused http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usoh&c=words&id=15158 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usoh&c=words&id=15158 I felt the need lately to write another article. With several ideas running through my mind, I put it off for the past few weeks and focused on Teaching saying that the right topic would come to me in time. Let’s just say the past month has consisted of several coincidences. Somehow, I was blind and didn’t notice it until my Angels sent me a huge wake-up call!It started with reading more and more on Earth Angels, consisted of a new student of mine (learning about Angel Readings and Heali http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usky&c=words&id=15353 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usky&c=words&id=15353 They say that the truth is both hurtful and freeing. Now, looking around, I understand that it in full. I wanted to write on a topic that taught me something new. So I chose a lifestyle, one that takes a stand and is simple. What I found was Freeganism (Freeganism: is the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded. Freegans and Freeganism are often seen as part of a wider and quot;anti-consumerist and quot; ideology, and Freegans often employ a range of alternative living strategies based on http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usny&c=words&id=15376 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usny&c=words&id=15376 I began my pursuit of Wicca the summer before my freshman year of High School out of a necessity to find answers to my questions about morality, life, the world and my place in it. In my asking questions, my faith grew exponentially in the religion in which I was raised. I went to church with my mother and sang all the hymns, listened to the sermons like I never had before, and read the Bible along with my teachers and peers in Sunday school. Before long, however, my enthusiasm exhausted itself http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=uspa&c=words&id=15369 http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=uspa&c=words&id=15369 The focus of these articles is not the Paths of the Tree, but some explanation of their energetic state and connective function from sphere to sphere is necessary. The 22 Paths that connect the Sephiroth act as conduits/ filters and refiners of the energies of the connecting spheres. The Spheres are the pure states of Being, and the Paths allow for the movement of energy between the pillars of Force and Form. On the evolved or “Middle” Path, they become the direct line that mirrors the adage “as