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We’ve all heard of urban legends, old wives' tales, and 'fakelore', but we’re too intelligent and have too much access to credible reference materials today to fall for them — don’t we? Unfortunately not. Old wives' tales and fake proverbs abound today in the modern Pagan community thanks to the old culprit of word-of-mouth, as well as forums, and few individuals bothering to check facts or origins. Unexplained rules and fakelore are passed from Pagan to Pagan such as the following well-known pr ...

It’s not a secret that I’m a pretty big fan of the book Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s a memoir. A love story. A spiritual handbook for the new millennium. It is a how-to guide for those of us that have ever wondered how in the hell we ended up in this cookie cutter existence, with no flavor whatsoever, no zest, and spinning ever closer to a point where that list of things we wanted to do with our lives become a distant memory. However, there’s a great deal of criticism ...

I don’t talk about it much in Pagan or non-Pagan public, but I do have a soulmate. We know we’ve shared several lifetimes in which we were, respectively, husband and wife, brother and sister, and governess and charge, just to name a few. My soulmate has been part of my life (this life) for nearly three decades, is always there when I need him, and I cannot imagine my life without him.My husband is a good man; I love him dearly. He is more than I could ask for in his roles as supportive h ...

ANTAGONIST #5 I am revealing that this person is male, because it is also pertinent to the story. How this person created conflict: After a very emotionally devastating family event, this person tried to get me to run away with him. I said no, but his wife ended up reading his emails, and asked me to step away from her husband. We had been what I thought was good friends until that point. It was emotionally understandable that he wanted to leave his wife after the situation, and ...

The Gods have many things to teach us. This has become abundantly clear throughout my years of learning as I studied my Pagan path, forging my personal relationships with deity. Some of these lessons have been small, something learned through a dream or through some intuition that cannot be described in words. Other lessons have been far more concrete.I follow a Norse path, which probably has no relevance to the way in which the divine chooses to make their wants and needs known. To each ...

One of the main goals of the practitioner is awareness, control, and integration of the different parts of self. Integration can awaken us; it can give us more fluid power, knowledge of ourselves, and stronger connection to the Divine. There are several categories these can follow such as:Reclaiming: Younger Self, Talking Self, and Higher SelfFeri: Sticky One, Shining Body, and Sacred Dove Hebrew: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, YechidaServants of the Light: Physical, ...

There is nothing more important than taking in every aspect of the energy around you to do your spellcasting and rituals. You have to use all six of your senses, touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing, and intuition. You already use your five physical senses in your everyday life on a very basic level, but once you open up your third eye you’ll “see” more that life has to offer through the other five senses. This fact tends to make your intuition one of your most important senses and the one that m ...

“Karma is going to get you!” Really, oh really. I am an experienced mage and sage and I find that people tend to use the threat of Karma all too conveniently without a simple understanding of what Karma really is or the grass roots of the idea of Karma! I personally don’t believe that Karma ‘is going to get you’. In fact, I know Karma can’t get anyone. In the simplest refined thought, I find people who use this threat of Karma are a step down from folks who say, “That is a sin. You are go ...

I celebrated the Spring Equinox this year and as always with a ritual, I left learning something new. I have been thinking a great deal about what God is. It is such a vast, deep subject that it is hard to articulate. I have evaluated over time, Monotheism, Atheism, Duatheism (or Duotheism) and Polytheism. I am currently stuck on a Poly-Monotheistic state.First I will explain what I think of these. I rule out Atheism to some degree. As humans we CANNOT be the highest being out there - it ...

I think that (almost) everyone found out about the Craft while in a quest for power, but we all discovered that Wicca isn’t about power or revenge at all. I myself was quite surprised when I read that this Path had only one law: “An It Harm None, Do What Ye Will”. “Easy!” I naively thought, but as I studied more about philosophy the more I understood that it wouldn’t be like so.You have to ponder every future deed, consider any possible outcome and, basically, avoid getting in karma’s “T ...

There has always been something mystical about a late summer evening for me. It is that time of day which is no longer day, yet not quite night. It was the time my Great Grandmother called, "the spiriting time." It comes as the scorching heat of a summer day finally begins to give way to the evenings cooling magick. You can see it as the bright fiery red sun begins to slowly sink behind the horizons of our childhood memories.As a child, I was raised to know the mysteries of the old ways, ...

Lovely Luna, bright and bold, glowing with the power of old…She is called by many names, worshiped in many ways. Few would argue that, whatever name you give her, the Moon is the guiding light of Witches and Pagans. She fascinates and enchants; guides and empowers. We plan our spells and plant our gardens by the phases of the Moon. The waxing and waning Moon have very different energies. Under waxing Moon the light is increasing, and the time is right to build, grow, and create. ...

Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of God. -- KoranRecently, there has been much discussion about building a mosque near ground zero; many people feel that its location dishonors and insults the memory of those who died in the 911 tragedy. Yet, people forget that innocent Muslims died in this event, Americans fought a revolution to enjoy religious freedom, and the real place of worship is inside us. On some levels, my take on this disagreement is that it may be about racial and relig ...

For some reason, these past four months (just prior to writing this) have been devastating. My fallacy as a leader is that I try my best to accept everyone, to love everyone, to be everything for everyone. While I have been a good friend and mentor to many, I have unfortunately discovered that it is not the mode of operation for some people to accept peace, love, and harmony for what it is. An “antagonist, ” “troll, ” or even a “drama queen” is typically an unhealthy person who creates conflict ...

The beauty of the umbrella of Earth-based religion and the government-given glory of religious freedom is that we are allowed to believe what we wish and practice what we please...most of the time...provided no one gets hurt. I would venture to say that the majority of today's spiritual gatherings and groups, from Christianity to Wicca and beyond, make strong efforts to follow a "harm none" policy, albeit through different practices and methods. Yet, everyone knows I'm headed for a "yesbut", my ...

In laziness, in turning away from divine Will, there is turmoil, confusion and slavery. In service to truth and freedom and Will, there is fluidity, satisfaction, and fulfillment. There is growth and abundance in these actions.Isn’t it funny how there is such a paradox is freedom, free will, and following your divine destiny or your true Will? Whose will do you serve? To whose will are you a slave? Are you a slave to fear? Inertia? What about greed? Something I consider both nece ...

Henotheism is based on the belief that a god may take on any form at any time and still have the same essential nature. The central idea is that one name for a god may be used in a circumstance where a particular aspect of this god is being represented or worshiped while a different name may be given to or used to describe or worship yet another aspect of the same god, but under a different circumstance. This is not meant to imply superiority of one over the other; just that a god can exist in m ...

I am growing older. That’s a fact. I’m still in the Mother stage of my life, but I am fast approaching Crone. I am okay with this. More than most people, I would guess. I’ve learned that part of my contribution to society, as a Crone, is to provide wisdom and guidance to those seekers who ask. I’ve fit into this role flawlessly. Most people don’t want to hear what you have to say and if they do, they don’t listen anyway. I’m sure this is just a natural part of life. I never listened to my elders ...

Arguably, Isobel Gowdie is one of the most famous witches in Scottish history. But who was she – and why does she continue to fascinate and inspire prose, drama, poetry and song? Gowdie (sometimes spelt Goudie) was the daughter of an Auldearn lawyer, born in the early part of the 17thC, although the exact date of her birth is unclear. The family were Catholic, but converted to the Protestant Kirk. This was probably an expedient move on her father’s part to enable him to continue to make ...