Tag: witchcraft
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The Swan: Symbols of Love, Loyalty and the Soul
Cover art by Walter Crane “Thou art the door of the chief of hospitality, Thou art the surpassing star of guidance, Thou art the step of the deer of the hill, Thou art the step of the steed of the plain, Thou art the grace of the swan of swimming, Thou art the loveliness of […]
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Reframing Our Relationship With Animals and Related Divination Practices
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” Anatole France At times it amazes me how we can share this beautiful earth with so many other forms of life and yet because of industrialization, spend so little time with them or in their presence. Animals have an incredible ability just […]
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Connecting With Spirits of Place
“All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based… It is […]
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The Jack-o’-Lantern, Will-o’-the-Wisp and Ghosts
Cover art by Rob Alexander “They saw a divine virtue in the healing properties of springs and herbs, they felt the presence of a god in the brooding mists, the gloomy thickets, the wildfire that flitted across the sky, the mysterious moonbeans, and the glorious sunrays, the will-o’-the wisps of the swamps, the mountains and […]
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Samhain: Cauldron of the Ancestors
“I feel the nights stretching awaythousands long behind the daystill they reach the darkness whereall of me is ancestor.” Annie Finch This time in between Samhain and the Winter Solstice is a time of descent. We descend into our inner being; into our darkness to find what it is we will bring into being at the Winter […]