Blessings Darlings!
So you want to get started in magic/Pagan spirituality/mysticism/whatever. Congratulations! But where do you start? I take a Maslovian view of this – that you start with the mundane.
Therefore, you’d start with things like…
Fairy Witchcraft: A Neopagan’s Guide to the Celtic Fairy Faith
Author: Morgan Daimler
Series: Pagan Portals
Review: If you know me well, you’d know that the moment I see the word Fairy in any book title I tend to run away and hide. The only reason I actually read this book is because I knew the author was a great researcher and an honest writer who tells it like it is. Plus it was a fairly short read and I was curious about the subject matter.
Public Sigils
Chaos Magic works very heavily with sigils. And one fun technique involves viral sigils: sigils copied and placed in public locations so that random people will activate them (without realizing it). The idea here is that you get a scattershot approach, and instead of one result from your spell you get numerous. This works well […]
Prepare Ye The Way of the Lords (and Ladies)
Blessings Darlings!
I’d like to expand on a theme I’ve touched on before, over in http://fernsfronds.blogspot.com/2009/06/intimacy-with-gods.html .
I’m in a lot of Facebook Pagan groups. It could well be argued that I’m in too many Facebook Pagan groups. At any rate, I see recurring themes in all the groups, one taking place around spell-begging (asking strangers online for spells for X, Y, or Z, or even for ANY spells) the other around ‘how do I know what God/dess is my patron?”
Wixen
(This was initially posted on my Tumblr blog, and is being cross-posted here with some slight adjustments.) So a while back I was rambling about magic-users and sensitives and whatnot. What I was going on about is that people who are sensitive to magic are people that occupy or work in the liminal spaces, the […]
Witches in Popular Culture
Steven Posch has a brief article on what he calls witchsploitation. You know the genre. Wicker Man I (“the one without Nicholas Cage,” as a local movie marquee put it during the midnight Samhain run last year), To the Devil a Daughter…so many to choose from. Somewhere off in the sticks there are (bwa-ha-ha) still […]
Roundup®
Blessings Darlings!
So, we moved. Didn’t want to, but the house we were renting went on the market, and the real estate agent and the owner agreed it was best to show it without a tenet.
Okay.
We move into the new place. There’s a little trash in the garage, no big deal, I go to move it into the garbage can for pickup. But … uh oh …
Quick Update
Setting Roots
Jacki the Pint-Sized Pirate had a little bit to say recently on wanderlust and being rootless. Wanderlust is deep in my bones and soul. Traveling is a compulsion, much like writing, not only am I incapable of ignoring it, I don’t want to. It’s every bit as addictive as my tattoos and piercings. […] I […]
Creating Gods
Taylor Ellwood talks a little but about pop-culture paganism, and pop-culture entities being “real.” What makes a pop culture character real? The connection you have with it and the interactions that occur as a result of that connection. The research you do to learn more about the character, and the way you integrate the character […]