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Performed with Non-Sectarian Group on 02/95
I The presider should gather the participants outside of the circle prior to starting the ritual outside of what will be the circle area.
You have come here on this eve of your own free will. I ask you to walk around and breath in the night air. Think about the life around you. Draw it into you. Think about the Life which is around you and which fills you. Walk around and talk and converse with those who are around you and will join you in this circle. When I call you to the circle, bring only your soul and not your physical body.
The presider should then cast the circle. You will need the usual ritual materials but also you will need the same number of scarves as their are participants. It could be scarves or just pieces of cloth. Make sure that you have the same number or even a few extra for safe measure. Read the rest of the article...
This is a preview of "Scatha Gunn’s Full Moon Binding Ritual". Read the full post (estimated 10:40 minutes reading time)
I recently watched the movie Phenomenon and came away very disturbed.
In case you haven’t seen it, don’t read the next six paragraphs. We hate it when someone ruins a movie by telling us what happened.
John Travolta plays a nice average man, nothing special, who lives in the small town he was born in. On the night of his birthday party, he is apparently struck by a blinding light and knocked to the ground.
By the next morning, he is displaying extraordinary abilities. Suddenly there is nothing he cannot know or do.
The townspeople, with three exceptions, the woman he loves, a wise old country doctor, and his best friend, begin to fear him. They cannot accept what is happening without explanations. They feel there must be some catch and they begin desperately searching for it. They also begin ostracizing this gentle man. Read the rest of the article...
This is a rebuttal article to Mike Nichols: A WITCH BY ANY OTHER NAME, and it is intended to spark discussion.
Well, there have been many who have said at various times that Wicca equals Witchcraft. While I’m not going to argue semantics, and while I can and do acknowledge that Wicca in the original Anglo-Saxon roots means “witch”, I don’t agree that Witchcraft is the semantic equivalent of Wicca anymore.
Here we have a religion that has built itself up around the word Wicca, sold books, developed a complex spiritual substance, Deity figures (some that don’t even appear in ancient mythologies), has developed dogma and cant in which certain things are of the Wicca and others are not and even developed a moralistic code which adherents must ascribe to (or at least give lip service to if they don’t buy the whole thing). Read the rest of the article...
December 21
[Erecting the Temple is performed. Priest and Priestess kiss. On the Altar stands two unlit candles, one on wither side of the Altar Candle.]
Priestess: Now is the Sun well on its course through the long and dark months of winter.
Priest: Let us show our love for the Gods
By sending strength where it is needed.
Let us kindle here fresh fires
To light our Lord upon His way.
Fires to give Him confidence;
To show Him our love burns forth
Even though the hardships of Winter be upon us.
All: So Be It!
[Priest takes up one unlit candle and holds it before him.]
Priest: Let Woden bear the blessings of our Lady Freya
As He guard us and guides us
Through the long dark days ahead.
May all our Power, Wiccans all,
Be symbolized by this light,
As it burns with steady flame,
Aiding and strengthening that which is there. Read the rest of the article...
By Many Authors
New Page Books, 2005 $15.99 US
ISBN 1-56414-788-6
Review by Daven
Rating: 
Well, as I have stated in another review, I generally don’t think that books written by committee will sell. This book, however, is the exception that proves the rule.
While it looks to me as though the articles were not subject to editorial approval of the other authors, this book does have multiple contributors. Each brings their own unique perspectives to this work, and each has their own “voice”. Each can also be considered to be an “elder” of the path.
There are Big Name Pagans like Raven Grimassi, Starhawk, M. Macha Nightmare and also relative “unknowns” like Tehom, Gus diZerega and Oz, but reading what they have to say will be an eye opening experience for many. Read the rest of the article...
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High and Low Magic
High magic refers to much of what the Ceremonial Magic traditions and orders, such as the Golden Dawn or the O.T.O., were doing at the time Gerald Gardner founded Wicca in the 1950′s.
Practices and traditions associated with high magic include the Kabbalah, Alchemy, some of Astrology, Enochian Magic, and the various practices of illuminism. Much of what Aleister Crowley did could be considered
high magic.
Today, Ceremonial Magic is alive and well. It is worth one’s while to at least read up on some of the various groups practicing it.
The terms “Left Hand Path” and “Right Hand Path” incidentally come from Ceremonial Magicians who borrowed the concepts from Indian Tantra. It is commonly thought that the
Left Hand Path refers to selfish or worldly magical practices whereas the Right Hand Path refers to enlightened or healing magical practices. Neither of these descriptions are correct, however.
Left and Right Hand refer simply to one’s focus in practice. Left is more inner-focused and self-oriented whereas Right is more world-oriented and other-focused. The practices of the movement known as Chaos Magic
utilizes elements of both. Read the rest of the article...
This is a preview of "Neo-Pagan Witchcraft / Wicca 101 Glossary Part 2". Read the full post (estimated 1 seconds reading time)
by Sandra Kynes
Llewellyn, 2004 $14.95 US
ISBN 0-7387-0583-7
Review by Daven
Rating:
Every once in a while you come across a book that stands out as a shining example of what all good books are and could be.
This is not that book.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not on the level of, say, 21 Lessons of Merlyn, but it’s not stellar either. It’s average. That’s the best I can say about it.
I can’t even say that it’s good to use as a Wicca 101 text, since it has many factual errors in it in addition to totally de-emphasizing the God in favor of Vaginamancy. Examples of factual errors include the “myth” of Persephone and Demeter. According to this author, Persephone willingly went into Hades to comfort the souls there. This was news to me since the way *I* learned the myth was that Hades kidnapped and raped Persephone and Demeter basically shut down the world until she returned. The author even states that this is the original myth and says, “Happily, this gentler version is gaining popularity.” (p 29) Read the rest of the article...
It’s done! Chapter one is finished.
The first five people who email me at davensjournal @ davensjournal.com get a copy for free. After that, it’s $2.
Be aware that this is 3.5 MB, so it’s huge. It will take some time to download.
Originally posted 2005-05-13 16:02:01.
More and more recently, there has come a term that is making more of the serious-minded Pagan sit up an take notice: Fluff Bunnies.
There are other names, Playgan, Wicabes, Wiclets, witchypooh, **New Term** Wictim (defined as a Wiccan Victim, or one of those who thinks the Inquisition is still going on) and so on, all of which do the same basic thing; All these names reveal a deep-seated dislike for those who take the religion of Wicca and Paganism less than seriously.
What are the symptoms of this dread condition, you may ask?
1) Aversion to research.
This is probably the most serious symptom. When this symptom manifests itself, the afflicted person tends to read something in a popular book, email list, newsgroup or website and take it as the literal truth, without checking facts. It’s worse when combined with blind trust of the so-called “elders” who have silly names like “High Lady Stuffandnonsense” or “Lady MoonroseHaven”. Their names literally sound like they came out of a Pagan Name Generator and are begging for ridicule. Read the rest of the article...
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