Author: A Solitary Pagan
The way of the witch was never meant to be easy
Witches do not walk in straight lines, in fact there are no lines, there are no rules to bind us, for we are free flowing entities of Nature. Walking in the peripherals has never been for the faint of heart, for within shadows there are shadows. Our own Shadow self may be our ally or our foe, we need to identify which witch, is which witch, when working with Spirit, spirits, and the Fae. Wisdom co...
The Magic of the Divine Masculine
Today’s “culture” (look up the etymology) invests so much time and energy toxifying masculinity, that the balance needs to be redressed. What do YOU think…? “The Magic of the Divine Masculine: What is divine masculine energy? Divine masculine energy is the energy of the universe that is responsible for manifestation. It is the active, creative force that brings essenc...
Discovering yourself as a Witch
Discovering yourself, and defining yourself as Witch can be as long or short of a process as you make it. Learning the vital differences, however subtle, between Jinxing, Hexing, Banishing, Binding and Cursing is your first true step into the Crevices of the Craft. Healing is often wrapped up in all of the above, but overlooked as a Tool. Often those who need to harm others do it because they them...
What is a Spell?
IN ANCIENT PAGAN communities the elders, orwise ones, had, by their very experience, anawareness of custom and a firm grasp ofwhat had previously worked when trying togain control over Mother Nature and otherpowers they did not fully understand. Theyhad access to certain knowledge (and thereforepower) that was not readily available to theordinary individual.The ancients recognized that words spoke...
Modern Magick
Today there is a rich heritage of magical practicesand beliefs on which we can call to satisfy ourneed for control over our own lives. Whereconventional religion no longer offers an outletfor our sense of belonging, we can turn tomagical rituals and spell making to honour ourorigins. We can make use of the knowledge andpractices that have been handed down to us andhave survived, often in the face ...
Magick, Curiosity, Exploration & Secrecy
Curiosity, exploration and secrecyOne of most interesting characters from earlytimes was Abraham Abulafia (1240–95), whomade available much arcane knowledge, whichultimately formed the basis of Kabbalah.Believing in the divine nature of the Hebrewalphabet, he held that God cannot be describedor conceptualized using everyday symbols. Hetherefore used abstract letter combinations andpermutations (tz...
Defining Magick
IT IS SOMETIMES best not to attempt anydefinition of ancient magic and magicalbelief. However, in any discussion of magicand its practitioners we must take account of aperiod in which the magical traditions ofseveral different cultures coalesced and mergedinto a type of international and evenmulticultural magical practice, with its ownrituals, symbols and words of power. Thisoccurred in the Medite...
Ancient Beliefs and Magick Practices
Ancient beliefs and practices are the mainstay ofmagic. Modern-day spells often have their rootsin ancient rituals and today’s rituals arise fromknowledge of age-old spells.While we might make an attempt at definingancient beliefs as applied to the modern day, nodefinition of magic has ever found universalacceptance, and countless attempts to separateit from religion on the one hand and science on...
Sacred Geometry
SACRED GEOMETRY MEANS different things todifferent people. The artists of theRenaissance period discovered theGolden Mean – a ratio which helped them to construct a perfect picture, calculated as1:l.618034, an ‘irrational’ number. This conceptis still valid today.To the architect, that same ratio – this timecalled a Golden Section – is used to calculate astandard proportion for width in relation t...
The main Feng Shui schools
Over the centuries many different schools ofFeng Shui have developed. The basic principlesare broadly the same, though each school has aslightly different focus. There are three mainschools in existence today:Form SchoolThis school focuses on the features of thesurrounding landscape and the correct use ofthe positioning of buildings – and, in formertimes, burial sites – to gain protection frominau...
Feng Shui
ONE OF THE most important adjustmentsthat we can make as we begin to workconsistently with magic is to theenvironment in which we live and to our ownpersonal space. As we reach an internal peacewe create tranquillity around us, but equallyour environment must nurture us. For thepractitioner this means understanding both ourliving space and our own subtle aura – orenergy field – created by our own ...
Geomancy
THE WORD GEOMANCY (from the Latin geo,‘Earth’, mancy ‘prophecy’) had a differentmeaning in ancient times from that it hastoday and we shall deal with that aspect first. Itwas a method of divination used to interpretmarkings on the ground or how handfuls of dirtlanded when you tossed them, and was thereforethe reading of patterns or signs. Geomancyseems to have appeared as a word in thelanguage use...