Category: Wicca and Paganism
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Power of the Witch
So this was an edit of some old notes on achieving power as a witch. I came across it while trying to compile my book of shadows so my students of 5 years can have the whole copying of the Book of Shadows experience. Anyway, apologies if this is out of date or different in…
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Book of Shadows
The phrase “Book of Shadows” evokes an immediate sense of mystery, ancient magic, and hidden knowledge. Also a tome of demonology. While it sounds like an artifact pulled straight from Gothic literature (quite deliberately in fact), the term possesses a specific historical origin tied to modern religious witchcraft, which both influenced and was influenced by…
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Book Review: The Green Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
So often when I crack open this book, I get a real sense of familiarity. Unfortunately this is not a positive sign. So often I feel like I am about to read the same old shit again. This book was a little bit different because it doesn’t regurgitate the circle drawing practices or the wheel…
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Review: Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey
Never before has a person who wrote about their own take of the witches sabbath, inspired me so much, yet I do not want to repeat a lot of his ritual actions. Seeing his goddess, the earth, raped by the machinery of consumerism really lit a fire in Grey’s heart an this book functions mostly…
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Protected: My take from Apocalyptic Witchcraft
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Book Review – Earth Alchemy by Glennie Kindred
Immediately the author states in the preface “there are no fixed doctrines in alchemy”. The author says that people should do whatever “feels right and good”, that they should develop their own philosophy, which she calls their own “philosopher’s stone”. Immediately, this book really frustrated me. This is the issue I have with many pagan…
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The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente
So I am recently working with a very pagan focused witch circle which has been really good to get me out of my ceremonial box and learn new things or often just re-learn the old things which I thought I knew. This book is a wonderful collection of witch centered poems that inspire ritual words…