Author: A Solitary Pagan
Samhain Explained
Samhain is probably the best known - and misunderstood - pagan holiday. Irish Gaelic for “Summer’s End” Samhain (pronounced Soo-Ween) is an ancient Pagan celebration marking the end of the harvest season and the start of the long, dark winter months.
The Spiritual Meaning of Fall
The air is beginning to get crisp and the leaves are making their final brilliant warm-toned offerings before falling to become one with the Earth. As we also make our way through Libra season (September 23 – October 22), many of us may be feeling the melancholy that comes in the moments just before something or someone flies away. It can be a time of grief and mourning, a time to make peace...
Six Ways Victorian Séances Were Not Like the Movies
Spirit Board Ouija for Spirit CommunicationIf you watch a lot of supernatural horror or read many gothic novels, you’ve probably encountered your fair share of séance scenes. In modern stories about supernatural terrors or paranormal adventures, a scene with a séance often marks a crucial turning point in the narrative. The séance might result in a terrifying possession, reveal a long-held s...
How to Protect Yourself While Working With Spirits
Spirit work, whether communing with our ancestors or invoking deities, can be tricky business. Many of us have Ouija board stories from childhood that appropriately taught us the valuable lesson of never conjuring or calling what we couldn’t banish. The good news is, working with spirit can be informative, educational, and enlightening to a practitioner who approaches with reverence. It also creat...
Enchanting Mirrors
Enchant the mirrors in your house to give everyone who looks into them a boost in their self esteem/body image.Place a candle on the stove to symbolize the hearth fire traditionMake a magic welcome mat that draws in good company and keeps away the badPay close attention to the sort of energy your decor creates and adjust it to help create the energy you want in your home.Is the TV the center of yo...
A GHOSTLY CONNECTION
Ghosts are universal, some quiet, some noisy, most benevolent, some malevolent. However a ghost presents itself to the individual or the many, you are forced to take notice. Ghosts make contact for a variety of reasons, they will find one way or another to contact those on the earth plane if they choose. Whether you believe or not the supernatural is all around you, and for centuries people have b...
How To Hold a Seance
A séance is an event that can either be fantastic, or a real mess. Which one it is will depend on how much preparation goes into it. With a little bit of planning and thought ahead of time, you can pave the way for your séance to go smoothly. Certainly, it’s a good idea to expect the unexpected — after all, the dead are hardly predictable — but by setting yourself a few guidelines in advance, you ...
A Prayer of Transformation in these Great Turning Times
A message from the Dark Mother: This isn’t a time of despair, but of rejoicing. I don’t call for endings, but for new beginnings. And you don’t need to look further than your own self for the change this world desperately needs. Don’t believe that you are worthless and made of base elements not deserving of redemption. Don’t believe that the hurts you carry are because of some flaw and distortion ...
The Fifth Element – Spirit
There is a fifth element that most of us the in the Craft recognize. This is the element of Spirit, known as Ether or Akasha. This is the element that transcends, yet is a part of, all the other elements. It takes the name of Akasha from that place on the astral where the akashic records are held, the accounting of all that has happened in the past, present, and future of the universe and beyond. ...
Queen of the Witches, daughter of Diana
Aradia is an extremly powerful entity and protectress of witches in general. The following invocation is VERY old. She was said to work her magic with great power and used her powers to help others who were weaker than herself. This is an example of her invocation. Recommendations are that you be careful when and IF you ever use the following invocation! Aradia! my Aradia!Thou art my daughter unto...
A Pledge to Pagan Spirituality
I am a Pagan and I dedicate Myself to channeling the Spiritual Energy of my Inner Self to help and to heal myself and others. I know that I am a part of the Whole of Nature. May I grow in understanding of the Unity of all Nature. May I always walk in Balance. May I always be mindful of the diversity of Nature as well as its Unity and may I always be tolerant of those whose race, appearance, sex, s...
The Great Triad : Maiden, Mother and Crone
Most of us have heard about the three main faces of the Goddess: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. These three stages show up everywhere in life—beginnings, middles, and endings—and they’re always with us in some way. But sometimes, you might notice a fourth, fifth, or even sixth side to the story. As Starhawk says, “When the myths come alive for us, they change.” There really are no limits to the Goddes...