Hekate Liminal Rites: A study of the rituals, magic and symbols of the torch-bearing Triple-Goddess of the Crossroads, – by Sorita d’Este & David Rankine. Honoured by men, women and gods alike, traces of her ancient provenance reach back through the millennia providing clues about her nature and origins along the way. Depictions of her as three formed facing in three ways, sometimes with the heads of animals such as the horse, dog and snake hint at her liminal nature,... Read more
The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story, by Phil Rickman. “Glastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. But when plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch returns home, it’s with a sense of deep unease – and not only about her aristocratic family’s reaction to her broken engagement and her New Age companions. Plans for a new motorway have intensified the old bitterness between the local people and the ‘pilgrims’, so already the sacred air is soured.... Read more
Ask a Witch to do a love spell and the majority of us will give the same or similar answer. Usually the answer begins with NO! No, because it is wrong to force another to feel something they would not normally feel. No, because it won’t work anyway, we cannot force such changes in others. No. People love to question these two answers. If it isn’t going to work anyway, why worry about the ethics of the situation? Why? Because it’s the... Read more
As an Eclectic Pagan I will literally mix and match deities and beliefs from various cultures and civilisations with only a touch of second thoughts. I know there are some who see this as a disgusting practice and disrespectful to the gods, but I am pretty much past the point where I care about whether my internal beliefs offend someone. My eclectic practice does not mean I have no idea who each deity is. I have done my studying and... Read more
I had planned to make this soup for the Autumn Equinox, and then for Samhain, but events conspired against me. It was a cold day yesterday and I decided on the spur of the moment to cook this soup last night. It is, I feel, perfect for Autumn and Winter. Beautifully warming, very filling and wonderfully cheesy. My son professed to hate it, until he actually ate some and then proceeded to demand more and ask for some for... Read more
My blog post Pagan Hatred, about the resurgence of hatred that Pagan’s have for Christians and Christianity was featured, somehow, on two Pagan websites. These were Pagan Reports** and Wiccan** Web. I got a few replies on both these sites, but most interesting to me was the very first comment I read at Wiccan Web. It began with a question and a statement that I see fairly often… ** Both sites are now dead, thus the removal of the links. It was... Read more
The Ophelia and Abby Mysteries by Shirley Damsgaard.1 – Witch Way to Murder2 – Charmed to Death3 – The Trouble with Witches4 – Witch Hunt5 – The Witch is Dead6 – The Witch’s Grave7 – The Seventh Witch I did enjoy these books. They were an easy read and a good mix of genres. They are pretty much simple Paranormal Mystery Fantasy Fiction. These are about a 30ish year old witch (Ophelia) being trained by her grandmother (Abby). They get... Read more
It seems to me that I have been seeing a resurgence of major Christian hate from Pagans, Witches and Wiccans lately, and honestly it is rather disheartening to see. For the past year or so I have been reading and interacting with Pagans on topics about Paganism and little was mentioned of Christianity, but these past few weeks I have seen some things on Facebook and other places that is just plain annoying. On a Facebook Witchcraft page was a... Read more
These books are hard really, I like them but at the same time… I enjoy the ideas in these books, the philosophical and spiritual implications are rather wonderful, but therein lies the problem. It truly does get a little preachy at times, far-fetched even to an Eclectic Pagan such as myself. I love the reincarnation aspects, I love the fairies and deities who are not actually gods, the immortality I am uncaring about either way, the mind over matter concept... Read more
I have a friend on Facebook whose main purpose in Facebook life lately is to try and annoy me. Mostly he will make fun of Paganism, talk about slaughtering goats and the like. He knows quite a bit about how Paganism really is, he has studied it just so he can troll me with all the wrong facts. Today on a Facebook page that is Pagan based he tagged me to a thread accusing me of wrongly teaching him that... Read more
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