Ghosts, Nature-Spirits, Elementals: non-corporeal consciousness.
Part 1: how to make contact. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ Hamlet, Shakespeare After…
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The Unknown, the Unmanifest, & the Nonexistent
Three categories of ‘reality’ in Dion Fortune’s Applied Magic. I have been surprised through my re-reading of ‘Applied Magic’ how much of Fortune’s work resonates…
Winter Solstice- 2023
It is still dark now, I have the candles lit – awaiting the dawn. There won’t be much of a sunrise this morning as we…
Dion Fortune on Group Mind
Collective enchantments & reality selection Further readings in ‘Applied Magic’. Group-Mind is a concept that, as a primarily solitary-practitioner I have vastly under-explored. But I…
Do you believe in magic?
First, in order to answer that question, one would need to define what magic is… We, broadly speaking, define magic in two ways; two almost…
The Pendle Witches
written by guest contributor: Verna Sorrentino In the late Middle Ages, witch-hunting fever swept across Europe. Scotland’s King James V1 who succeeded Queen Elizabeth 1st…
The Human Family at the Tree of Life
by guest contributor: Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju Figures evocative of the human family seated at the base of the Tree of Life as the baobab is…
BLESSINGS FOR A TRANSFORMATIONAL SAMHAIN
by guest contributor: Alison Skelton This is a time of thresholds; we move from light to shadow, looking through the veil of illusion that separates…
On Apples and Other Evils:
I would have had the apple off the tree even without the serpents encouragement; I believe the benefits of eating forbidden fruit far outweigh the dra…
Samhain: All Hallows’ Eve, Celtic New Year’s Eve, Witch’s New Year’s Eve
This is the first chapter of the forthcoming book ‘The Witch’s Wheel’ written by Yvonne Owens and Jessica North O’Connell. Published here by permission of…
