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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...

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...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

The House is Still on Fire – Witchcraft Against Climate Crisis

In previous posts, I have written with some concern about the climate crisis that’s...

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Pax Deorum Being the First Book of the Wanderer (previously unpublished © Ian Chambers 2018)...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

July 2018

July 14, 2018

Meditation – Something To Think About

Being able to meditate in solitude is fine. Being able to meditate in a crowd...

July 06, 2018

Visualisation – Eyes Wide Open

Visualisation (or visualization in the USA), is one of those skills that is referred to...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Working Magic With The Angelic Forces

Working magic with angelic forces is an aspect of the Western Mystery Tradition which has...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Working Compass Magic

To Every thing there is a season, a time to every purpose under Heaven (Ecclesiastes...

April 20, 2018

The Farmer, The Shepherd, Robin, Marian and the May Queen

There are twelve months in all the year, As I hear many men say, But...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Od’s Man – Riding the Odic Force

The terms Od and Odic Force entered the language of those natural scientists who were...

March 14, 2018

Robert Cochrane and the Middle Pillar in Traditional Witchcraft

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course...

March 10, 2018

Looking For An Equinox Devotional Working?

Well, you asked for it ... There probably aren't many pagans who have ever considered...

March 08, 2018

Cycles in Time – The Myth of the Year

A Pagan myth of Christian origins, of pagan inception As Neopaganism matures, the unveiling of...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Daily Adorations Using The Compass

Without further ado, here is presented a daily practice of adorations to the sun, hailing...

February 22, 2018

Raising Cain

Being an initiation rite within the witchcraft current, a genesis point, a spring board into...

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