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December 2021

December 20, 2021
To the Great Goddess, mother and Maker of all things, we call for a light...

July 2021

July 29, 2021
  In previous posts, I have written with some concern about the climate crisis that’s...
July 05, 2021
Many of the oldest, most iconic depictions of the witch feature the pronounced characteristics that...

May 2021

May 19, 2021
Within the milieu of neopaganism, and nature-based religious movements that lie at the heart of...

April 2021

April 19, 2021
“South wind —heat and produce, North wind—cold and tempest, West wind—fish and milk, East wind—fruit...

February 2021

February 21, 2021
In terms of witchery, I firmly believe that the origins and persistent ethos of the...

January 2021

January 30, 2021
"...there was a whole lot of secrecy involved due to the fact that, at the...
January 18, 2021
This ritual for Imbolc, Saining of Brigit, appeals to Brigit in the context of initiation...

December 2020

December 20, 2020
Witchcraft has been a subversive facet of culture since time immemorial. Incorporating inversion, reversion and...
December 05, 2020
The Black Fast In the Year of Our Lord, 1537, the potato arrived in Europe,...
December 01, 2020
What better way to kick off 2021 than with a brand new occult and paranormal...

November 2020

November 27, 2020
Pax Deorum Being the First Book of the Wanderer (previously unpublished © Ian Chambers 2018)...
November 25, 2020
Traditional Witchcraft has become rather popular among the neopagan and occult milieu today, allowing freedom...

September 2020

September 05, 2020
…the distribution of the castes in the city exactly follows the march of the annual...

August 2020

August 07, 2020
From the birthplace of the world's most famous modern magician, Aleister Crowley, Golden Dawn founder...

July 2020

July 19, 2020
The Devil's Noctuary: Being a Prophetic Fragment of the First Song of Qayin, is the...
July 19, 2020
The role of the Devil in the early Medieval period incorporated mostly a capacity similar...

June 2020

June 14, 2020
Myths of the flood represent the crisis of the soul when the psyche plumbs the...

May 2020

May 22, 2020
The following is an extract from Pax Deorum - A Modern Witchcraft Primer, 2018, by...

April 2020

April 14, 2020
The legend of St George may be an initiatory myth in which a ritual enactment...

March 2020

March 25, 2020
In Britain the tradition of Spiral Castle survives in the Easter Maze dance of country villages,...
March 23, 2020
Guy of Warwick features in medieval romance and legend as a questing knight fighting dragons...
March 15, 2020
The purpose of the pilgrimage is relevant to cultures across the world and spanning time....

February 2020

February 20, 2020
First published in The Cauldron No. 150, November 2013 Since the last century, and accelerated by...

January 2020

January 30, 2020
The Witch's Stang is often thought to have been introduced into modern practice by the...
January 17, 2020
Frequently, we see people asking how to do such and such, what tradition to follow,...
January 15, 2020
Within Traditional Witchcraft, the concept of the Compass sometimes erroneously replaces that of the Circle....

December 2019

December 11, 2019
Christingle sounds a bit like Kris Kringle... And that's about all there is, really. Ostensibly,...
December 01, 2019
The Santa Claus we now know, incorporating the older British Father Christmas and Lord of...

November 2019

November 19, 2019
So, you really want an initiation? A word to the wise: if you are completely...
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