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Feast of the Gods: Outrage and Parody…

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

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A Defence of Witchcraft Belief – Book Review

A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-century Response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft, Edited...

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Father Time: Ring out, wild bells…

veritas filia temporis The Midwinter, especially around the solstitial event of the sun’s apparent stasis...

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

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

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Cosmogony of the Compass – Yetzirah Mysticism

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

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Magic & Responsibility

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

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February 10, 2022

Navigating the Witch Compass

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

February 21, 2021

Punk Witchcraft !

In terms of witchery, I firmly believe that the origins and persistent ethos of the...

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Pax Deorum Being the First Book of the Wanderer (previously unpublished © Ian Chambers 2018)...

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...

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July 19, 2020

Sympathy for the Devil

The role of the Devil in the early Medieval period incorporated mostly a capacity similar...

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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....

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February 20, 2020

Breaking With Tradition: The Future of Witchcraft

First published in The Cauldron No. 150, November 2013 Since the last century, and accelerated by...

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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...

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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....

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November 19, 2019

Initiation: ReBirthing Pains

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

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September 15, 2019

Wyrd Goes Ever As She Shall

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

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Castles in the Sky

1. Within Caer Sidhi doth our tale commence, That spectral Castle, spiralling abode Where Pale-Faced,...

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July 26, 2019

Witchcraft Against Climate Change

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

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June 23, 2019

Spinning Without Motion Between Three Elements…

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

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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...

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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...

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