Author: A Solitary Pagan

This exercise makes use of what is called the Book of Elements. It’s going to be one of your primary grimoires. The technique is commonly used by most of the occultists whom I have known (myself included), and it works on the premise that practitioners will consistently work at erasing any mundaneconditioning complexes that inhibit their ability to concentrate on, and control, whatever they do wit...

Exercise 1 1. Choose a quiet place where you will not be interrupted. If you are working the technique alone, you will need pencil and paper. If you are working with someone else, they will need the pencil and paper. They will question you and record the replies. 2. Write at the top of one side of the page, What I Want. Under that, write the numbers one through twenty down the page. 3. Write at th...

A witch is either a woman or a man who knows that he or she is a witch. A witch is a natural. A witch realizes certain powers; represents, rather than worships them; calls them Goddess and God (without it being a fixed, or boxed, ideology) and invokes them; fuses with them emotes and lives them; recognizes them in the vast forces of nature and beyond that (within other frames of reference). Witche...

The cauldron, like the broomstick and the black cat, is one of the features of any scene of witchcraft as pictured in the popular mind. Some of the belief derives from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, where the witches’ cauldron is introduced on the stage, with its accompanying dances and incantations. Actors regard Macbeth, because of the witch-scenes in it, as an unlucky and uncanny play. However, th...

The Fire Festivals interweave themselves with the lesser Sabbats of the solstice and equinox, but whereas the solstices and equinoxes mark the transitions of the Sun in its association with the Earth, the Fire Festivals mark the transitions of the seasons of Earth, the initiation of the transitions that are actualized and obvious at solstice and equinox. Both Goddess and God are representative of ...

Hallowed Be Thy Name Hailed, and walled, with garnet and with topaz The Temples of my Family! Deep in scarlet velvet and in black Come lay with me Entwine and sweat and softly moan before the Fire; Beneath the Veil of candles Lit to show the Way But slightly, darkly Unto the music of ghosts; Unto the ringing of bells within the Shrine All-hallowed in the rapture Of the Legend of the Vine Saved fro...

The Law of Congruity is the law of cause and effect: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. That does not imply that the effect is either relative or recognizable in any human evaluation-it simply is what it says it is. The Law of Congruity does not apply to matter only, but to thought and energy (such as speech and mood). The Eastern term for this law is called karma, and it is balanced...

Try hanging a set of chimes outside your door or a bell.Ringing bells and chimes are said to ward off and dismiss those negative energies that may wish to imprint themselves on your life.

Try placing a besom or a broom with its bristles up near the entry of your home. Any spirits with the intention of harm will have to pass through the bristles in order to get to you.

Try placing a bowl of magnetic oil-charged water in your rooms to soak up negativity. Float candles in it to make it a little less obvious and use black stones or black glass marbles to purify.

Place a small guardian totem such as a dragon or gargoyle and explain it’s duties.People will just think you like statues of animals, usually