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February 2025

February 17, 2025

Witchcraft in Reality: A Rebuttal

A little over a year ago, medieval historian and podcaster, Eleanor Janega wrote a blog...

March 2024

March 23, 2024

Privilege and Witchcraft

Within modern witchcraft, two positions have made themselves apparent in recent years that is somewhat...

September 2023

September 22, 2023

Book Review: Magic in the Modern World, Edited by Edward Bever & Randall Styers

Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and...

September 10, 2022

Mortem Obire – Facing Death in the Wake of the Queen’s Passing

The death of the Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms on Thursday...

August 2022

August 14, 2022

The Witch Compass – Working with the Winds in Traditional Witchcraft

"The language of symbolism and allegory is important to almost all understandings of magic, accessing a...

March 2022

March 21, 2022

Magic & Responsibility

Throughout conversations, one of the most frequent things to emerge is a regrettable reason that...

February 2022

February 10, 2022

Navigating the Witch Compass

As cognitive beings, narrative coheres humankind, the mechanism of story bonding us in an associative...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Discussing the Late Witch Ralph Harvey with Richard Gordon

"...there was a whole lot of secrecy involved due to the fact that, at the...

January 18, 2021

The Saining of Brigit – A Ritual For Candlemas (Imbolc)

This ritual for Imbolc, Saining of Brigit, appeals to Brigit in the context of initiation...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Punk Witchcraft: A Manifesto?

Witchcraft has been a subversive facet of culture since time immemorial. Incorporating inversion, reversion and...

December 05, 2020

The Black Fast – The Witch Trial of Mabel Brigge and Fasting as Magic

The Black Fast In the Year of Our Lord, 1537, the potato arrived in Europe,...

September 2020

September 05, 2020

Castles in Traditional British Witchcraft Lore

…the distribution of the castes in the city exactly follows the march of the annual...

May 2020

May 22, 2020

Losing Your Head At Midsummer – An Ancient Rite Revisited

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

March 2020

March 25, 2020

A Journey To Spiral Castle in Traditional Witchcraft

In Britain the tradition of Spiral Castle survives in the Easter Maze dance of country villages,...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

The Witch’s Stang: The Hope of Man from Every Angle

The Witch's Stang is often thought to have been introduced into modern practice by the...

January 15, 2020

The Witch’s Compass: Finding Direction With The Seven Winds

Within Traditional Witchcraft, the concept of the Compass sometimes erroneously replaces that of the Circle....

November 2019

November 19, 2019

Initiation: ReBirthing Pains

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

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Witchcraft Against Climate Change

I propose a witchcraft to openly and purposefully work to arrest the rapid decline of the...

July 26, 2019

Witchcraft Is Political And It’s Time To Use It!

Following a previous blog entry, among the comments I received was one accusing me of...

July 06, 2019

Sweet Heretical, Apocalyptic, Rebellious Witchcraft!

Witchcraft is the heretical proclivity toward rebellion, the natural response to the restrictions which bind...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Where Witchcraft Really Lives

The working witch experiences, indeed cultivates, a deliberate stepping out of the accepted and everyday...

April 08, 2019

Experiencing Lucifer: Rebel Without a Cause!

"...the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did...

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