In this time of extraordinary demand we are all drawing on our inner and outer resources to complete our daily tasks and to help each other. This armor reinforces our strength and centers us in the powers around us which sustain us. Read more
In this time of extraordinary demand we are all drawing on our inner and outer resources to complete our daily tasks and to help each other. This armor reinforces our strength and centers us in the powers around us which sustain us. Read more
We can’t always meet in person. Your coven, grove or lodge might decide to cancel your next get-together to maintain social separation to slow the spread of coronavirus, or a group member may be travelling but still want to participate. When the group can’t get together physically, can you still meet? With today’s video conferencing technology it’s easier than ever to connect online. Here’s how to hold a group ritual where some or all of the members dial in. Pick... Read more
One: The Trip is Only Part of the Journey I did a lot of reading and talking to people who had travelled to India before I left. While I was in country I spent every night researching what I was seeing. When I came back I had a lot to assimilate. I’m doing this by writing about it, because I’m a writer, but I’m also doing it by meditating and talking to my colleagues, because I am a practitioner. I... Read more
As a magician I draw inspiration from the women who came before me. Generation over generation we remember the contributions of famous men but lose the women’s stories. We’re always playing catch-up reinventing what other women have already accomplished. So to celebrate the publication of my piece “The Future of Ceremonial Magick” in Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick I have asked Denny Sargent, Aion 131, to write a quick biography of a woman magickian whose visionary and community work... Read more
There are three pilgrimages a Thelemite can make: Scotland, Egypt, and India. This week I’m heading for India. I’ve made the pilgrimage to Egypt. In 1904 Rose Kelly Crowley visited a Cairo museum and led her newlywed husband Aleister to the funerary stele of the priest Ankh-f-n-khonsu. Their magical workings resulted in the reception of the Book of the Law, the founding revelation of Thelema. Aleister dubbed the funerary plaque the “Stele of Revealing”. The day I visited the Museum... Read more
The Pagan community I dreamed has become a reality at Sacred Harvest Festival. In my Pagan youth my friends and I put on festivals. We rented outdoor conference centers and staged elaborate rituals based on the Eleusinian and Orphic mysteries. We dreamed of a day when we could look back and say, we did it! We built a real community! The gatherings and conferences I’ve attended in my maturity have been held in hotels and haven’t generated as much of... Read more
I sing of the Black Goddess Nuit. I sing of the limitless velvet expanse of space, which is not empty, it is her body, spangled with stars. I sing of the dark and fertile loam of the earth. I sing of the smooth cool depth of the obsidian cave where we reach the most profound mystery. I sing of the Black Goddess Nuit: She creates, She sustains, She destroys, She redeems. Is it surprising to see the word “black” to... Read more
In the era when I converted to Witchcraft my religion could endanger my my place to live, my job, my family relationships, my friendships. Read more
Theurgy always been about both the personal and the communal. It speaks to the individual need for spiritual experience and the community need for every member’s support. Read more
St. John’s wort, feverfew and comfrey: this trio of herbs of the sun blooms at St. John’s Day. The Feast of St. John on June 24 is the Christian version of the midsummer holiday that Pagans and magicians celebrate. As a Pagan magician I know that herbs blooming during the summer solstice carry a lot of solar power. This came up during a theurgy forum podcast last week when our host Hercules Invictus, guest Tony Mierzwicki and I discussed health... Read more
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