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March 2025

March 27, 2025

Maundy Thursday: Night of the Witches

The preeminent day connected with Judas... is Maundy Thursday... To the medieval mind, Maundy Thursday...

February 2024

February 04, 2024

The Devil in Witchcraft – The Witch Compass Extract

The figure of the devil, the Black Man of the Sabbat, the adversarial force that...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Book Review: Making Magic in Elizabethan England

A long time ago, in my early teens, I had a secret and insatiable thirst...

October 2023

October 05, 2023

We need to talk about the Witchcraft Act 1735…

If you have been a student of witchcraft and Wicca for any length of time,...

September 2023

September 30, 2023

Ladywell and the Godhelm Ingas

Exploring local folklore and landscape can reveal many things, not least of which is an...

July 2023

July 11, 2023

The Witch Can’t Be Identified

Recently, I made a blog post that gained some traction on social media, got seen...

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 05, 2021

Antisemitism and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

Many of the oldest, most iconic depictions of the witch feature the pronounced characteristics that...

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...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

Cain – The Witchfather in Traditional Witchcraft (Part 1)

Traditional Witchcraft has become rather popular among the neopagan and occult milieu today, allowing freedom...

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 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 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 11, 2019

Tradition and Customs of the Season

Christingle sounds a bit like Kris Kringle... And that's about all there is, really. Ostensibly,...

October 2019

October 03, 2019

What We Knew In The Night: Book Review

Earlier this year, Raven Grimassi passed across the veil. I have followed Grimassi’s writings with...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Where Witchcraft Really Lives

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

September 2018

September 02, 2018

Considering An Historic Witchcraft

A lot has changed with witchcraft, both socially and individually. Historic witchcraft may, in fact,...

June 2018

June 03, 2018

The Angelic System of Dr John Dee and Me…

I have a confession to make: Several years ago, and without any indication or prior...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

The Lunar Gospel – Book Review

There's little point in denying it, May started out really well for me with a...

May 15, 2018

Wyrd, Orlaeg, Fate and the Primordial Goddess

“I am Protennoia, the Thought that dwells in the Light. I am the movement that...

May 07, 2018

Keeping Appointment With The Wicker Man

Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, UK Saturday 5th May – Beltane. As the heady temperatures of...

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...

April 05, 2018

Planetary Hours and the Witch’s Compass

The Planetary Hours and the Traditional Witch's Compass There is a time for everything, and...

April 05, 2018

The Ced Tarot – A Complete Book Of Traditional Witchcraft

Review of the Ced Tarot Tarot in Traditional Witchcraft has a strange relationship and many...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Cain And The Land of Nod in Traditional Witchcraft

To the West lies an island, far across the sea and nestled upon the horizon,...

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...

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