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Shattered Illusions: Stories of Pre-Internet Days

As a gentleman of a middling age, being barely in the arse-end of Generation X,...

March 2025

March 12, 2025

Traditional Witchcraft and Betrayal…

Within the milieu of modern occult arts, the folklore and historicity of witchcraft has developed...

December 2024

December 09, 2024

To Always Hele, Ever Conceal, and Never Reveal…

I swear that I will always conceal and never reveal these secrets... (Society of Esoteric...

July 2024

July 28, 2024

Feast of the Gods: Outrage and Parody…

"Our idea was inclusion... Naturally when we want to include everyone and not exclude anyone...

March 2024

March 23, 2024

Privilege and Witchcraft

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

October 2022

October 21, 2022

Green Man, Earth Angel, by Tom Cheetham – Book Review

Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the World Soul, by...

September 2022

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...

April 2022

April 21, 2022

Cosmogony of the Compass – Yetzirah Mysticism

The universe that is created by means of the sefirot and letters is constituted according to...

January 2021

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...

November 2020

November 27, 2020

Pax Deorum – The Formula of Do ut Des & Making of Offerings

Pax Deorum Being the First Book of the Wanderer (previously unpublished © Ian Chambers 2018)...

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...

June 2020

June 14, 2020

Apocalypse Then: Reflections upon Gnostic Expressions of Revelation

Myths of the flood represent the crisis of the soul when the psyche plumbs the...

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,...

March 23, 2020

Guy of Warwick & St George – An Exposition of a Localised Green Man

Guy of Warwick features in medieval romance and legend as a questing knight fighting dragons...

March 15, 2020

Pilgrim’s Progress: A Journey We All Make Through the Year

The purpose of the pilgrimage is relevant to cultures across the world and spanning time....

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 17, 2020

On Freedom and Truth

Frequently, we see people asking how to do such and such, what tradition to follow,...

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....

December 2019

December 01, 2019

The Old Devil Saint Nick

The Santa Claus we now know, incorporating the older British Father Christmas and Lord of...

September 2019

September 15, 2019

Wyrd Goes Ever As She Shall

At any given moment in our lives, we might give pause to contemplate the course...

July 2019

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...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Spinning Without Motion Between Three Elements…

One looks with both eyes at the tip of the nose, sits upright in a...

May 2019

May 03, 2019

Exploring The Existential Witch With Peter Hamilton-Giles

An Interview with Peter Hamilton-Giles of Atramentous Press I do believe it is important for...

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...

March 2019

March 10, 2019

The Wu Way…Going With The Flow

無 Wu - emptiness, the pregnant void Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is...

December 2018

December 16, 2018

Wyrd Witchcraft

"Wyrd", says one scholar, "is the compelling power and final destiny which no man and...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

Flags, Flax and Fodder – A Benediction Explored

Fýr, fleax, fódder, frið (Fire, Flax, Fodder & Frith) Since the private letters of Robert...

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