Author: Hadron Templeton
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Handfasting
A popular temporary marriage, available in Christian Tudor England and Scotland. Revived recently as a form of marriage ceremony among neopagans. Some consider treating it as temporary for a year and a day at which point, the couple will decide whether to be married fully or to separate without commitment. However, many neopagans ask why…
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Running Iron
So this practice comes from the Feri and Reclaiming tradition and forms a major part of the book “Magic of the Iron Pentacle” by Meredith and Parma, which I am currently reading and reviewing. A huge part of this practice is working with an energy construct, which is connected to the egregore of the Iron…
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Shadow Dance
Okay this is a podcast I used to love listening to back in 2006. It’s been unavailable for a long time because of copyright issues, but finally, it comes back and there’s a possibility of new episodes coming soon. Check it out! I am shocked as I listen again now, how I totally receive it…
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The Mistake of Modern Morality
It’s a beautiful thing to live in a modern, evolved and respectively-lefty society that I live in. The type of society that most of Europe and Canada live in. LGBTQIA+ identity is more openly accepted than ever before and those that do not accept our identity often find themselves silenced and censored. Their views unwelcome…
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The Four Empedoclean Elements
The four elements, known commonly in many Wicca, Hermetics and Thelema-based practices around the world, are Fire, Water, Air and Earth. These form a powerful way to work with the universe and with the self. They seem on the face of it, to be a massive oversimplification, but that does not stop the idea of…
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Book Review: Creating Magickal Entities by David Michael Cunningham
When I was younger I became disillusioned with the books on offer for young magical practitioners. Every book I picked up was designed to feed the ego. It sounds bad, but really they tell themselves they’re building up the audience so it’s done from a place of love. The thing is I value myself. I…
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Elemental Work
The first step in any Hermetics-based magical path – which nearly all modern magic is – is to refine the core components of the initiate’s being. The individual parts of the initiate are separated out, refined and then re-integrated to form a perfected being. The perfected being is then a suitable receptacle for divine power.…
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Elemental King work
So this is a visualisation exercise, which is really designed to help inspire relationships with each element. Make or Practice using your Dreamspace Firstly you need to form a good dreamspace, temple of the self or inner temple. This is a place in your mind that you can go to that is like your happy…
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Easy Access Planetary Herbs
A lot of spells often require strange herbs that you’re unlikely to have in your kitchen or garden. So for a newby, this means getting started involves buying loads of herbs that you don’t have or going out foraging for them and trying to identify them in the wild. Either way, that gate keeps the…
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The Heptasphere Meditation
So as you may have noticed I’ve been doing a lot of exercises recently, mostly with a group of energy workers so you can see the themes that are popping up. For the next couple of weeks, we are working on an exercise from Jason Miller’s writing. I love his books and nearly anything Jason…