This article discusses what can go wrong when diviners and magicians forget to cleanse and shield. Read more

Shielding is one of the most important things that witches learn. Our coven teaches it to all our beginners. As a neophyte, I thought that shielding was a way to protect yourself against people who were working magic against you, and it is, but it’s also much broader and deeper than that. Human perception and memory is extremely mutable. Eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate. People’s perception changes based on their own biases and the behavior of the people around them.... Read more

All too often we get ourselves caught in this trap of thinking that being the Earth Mother is who ALL mothers are supposed to be. And Pagan moms are no different. Read more

Isaac Bonewits, Pagan author, theologian and founder of the ADF, has been given a grim prognosis as just reported by Jason at The Wild Hunt. Being a Pagan elder doesn’t exactly come with a healthcare plan, so in addition to sending healing energy to Isaac and his wife Phaedra, please consider donating through paypal to help with the mounting healthcare costs. I may not believe in paying for teaching but I strongly believe in caring for our elders. They donate... Read more

Keeping secrets is rude and divisive, and British Tradition Witcca (BTW) gets a lot of crap for doing it.  My particular flavor of Wicca, Gardnerian, is one of the most secret squirrelly of them all.  In fact, Gerald Gardner’s books are littered with overtly provocative statements including “forbidden to speak,” “cannot tell,” and “must not divulge.”  That’s seriously immature. If you try to say that at a party, you’d get laughed out of the room.  So how does a modern... Read more

Any witch worth her salt knows that the law of magic requires the practitioner’s total silence after the spell has been cast. Witches are forbidden to discuss or refer to a spell later, for once the magic has been worked the book is shut and the matter closed; that which happens within the circle remains within the circle. This is not a difficult rule to live by if one is a solitary, for there is no-one to gossip with anyway,... Read more

Ascetic practices include but are not limited to fasting, disciplined meditation, a regimen of internal and external cleansings, sensory deprivation, paring down of one’s possessions, and voluntary celibacy (which I already discussed here in a previous article). To the American mind, this body of practices is most often associated with medieval Christianity. This article explores how these practices can be a powerful tool in the Pagan and Heathen's spiritual tool-box as well. Read more

Money, the most tangible aspect of transformative wealth is alive. I am an animist. This means that I believe that everything can have a spirit. This includes money. This article looks at the sacredness of money and how to approach it as a Pagan, Wiccan, or Heathen. Read more