Witchcraft

  • Announcement! – One Month of Witchery

    I have decided to jump right in it. I have always wanted to be a goddess witch every day. To spend a little bit of every day doing something witchy and to connect with my spiritual side. I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who integrates their everyday life with their spirituality and […]

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  • I’m onto you

    It’s funny how there are so many positive thinking/you can change your life/law of attraction/wicca 101/self help bestseller books out there all with exactly the same theme and information in it? And isn’t it funny that one person who is into that kind of stuff will probably own or have read about 5 – 10 […]

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  • Rhiannon

    In various Avalon traditions Celtic goddesses are super important. Most people I meet seem to have a thing for Rhiannon, and she’s pretty awesome so I have no problem with that. She has a strong connection with horses and blackbirds, which is great because they are great. There’s a famous old myth of hers: One […]

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  • Let’s see how pointless mythology is.

    I’ve been reading Avalon Within by Jhenah Telendru and  am thinking about using mythology as inspiration. A long time ago, when I started reading grown up copies of the greek myths as oppose to the watered down illustrated kiddy versions, I decided I Did Not Like Greek Mythology. Let me sum it up for you: […]

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  • The Goddess is Darkness

    Witches know that darkness in itself is not evil – that’s why a lot of us don’t like being called white witches and don’t quite trust stuff named “Lightworking”, as it’s feeding into the dark-is-evil sterotype. Generally bad stuff tends to get called dark or gets roped under the “darkness” category, probably because dark is […]

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  • Grumpy Goddess in a Bath

    So have I been mired in my own self pity these last few days. I’m a girl, I have ups, I have downs. So I completed the age old girly feel-better ritual – bubble bath, smelling of cuddles. And a book. Dipping into de Grandis for some words of wisdom (I promise, I do read […]

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  • I am hunting, I found prayer!

    I have been hunting, and I discovered that as part of the house move I did some five months ago, all my 101 books are back at my mum’s house, and I have only my favourites with me. Sigh. There goes all my 101 revision. What I am learning however, is the power of prayer. […]

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  • Going on a hunt

    Honestly, I’m a witch in training. I’ve been at it a decade, but still in training! Recently I’ve really been feeling a need to dive back into the basics of witchcraft and Goddess Spirituality and, ahem, practice them. My spiritual cravings tend to wax and wane, as I suspect everybody’s does, but now that my […]

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  • Elements of the Wheel of the Year

    I’ve found the traditional elemental associations of the wheel of the year a little odd, always. I think it’s regularly earth in winter, air in spring, fire in summer, and water in autumn, and so they are associated with each of the season’s exquinoxy events. But, like wands being associated with fire in the Tarot, […]

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  • My Ostara Adventures

    Ostara is a time of balance between, well in theory, all things. It’s balance, innit? Daytime and nighttime are the sametimes. I love the equinoxes, the planetery celebrations of the Goddess’ wheel – when you can see the seasons changing. I’ve always seen the pagan wheel as divided into sections by the equinoxes and solstices, […]

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  • Starhawk Writes Awesome Stuff About Trees

    Starhawk sometimes get’s described as stuff like “the godmother of modern wicca”. Her book The Spiral Dance was supposed to be one of THE books on wicca. Frankly, I read it and, although alright, it wasn’t anything riveting or anything I didn’t know already. It’s so not in my top list of books I didn’t […]

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  • Are Spells Preistessful?

    I’ve been (vaguely) following Kathy Jones’ Priestess of Avalon book for the last year or so. It has priestess in the title, how could I not? My favourite Priestess of Avalon season is Winter. The focus is stillness, silence and prayer. Mmmm. I am a big prayer person me. Love love love it. In winter, […]

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  • Shmew-Age Thinking

    You may be noticing a heavy new-age bend to my current reading matter. Hells yeah. This is where I am getting my kicks this month. With the whole new year positivity thing going on, I am needing some shamelessly positive spiritual literature to go with it. I’m sure I’ll want it deep and hard later. […]

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  • Why I Have Stopped Buying Witch Books

    Most of us wiccans/witches/ex-wiccans/somthing witchy types seem to stockpile books in case of emergency, I guess. We read about what interests us. I have loads and loads of books about witchcraft, wicca, witchy topics, faeries, goddess, auras, teen witchcraft, spells, devotional practices, astral stuff, history, meditating, chakras…. And what I found out in the end […]

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  • Blatant Thievery! Perfect love and Perfect Trust

    Been skipping round the blogosphere and onto Dewdrops which is IvyMoonPanther’s wiccan blog, which very sensibly only talks about wiccan things and not the pursuit of crazy dancing dreams or what’s happening on House MD this week (five kinds of AWESOME that’s what). I thought I would be sensible for a change and contribute on […]

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