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  • The Hippie Witch Life: An Apprenticeship In Retrospect

    The Hippie Witch Life: An Apprenticeship In Retrospect

    March 6, 2025
    Amy Rhea
    Categories: Articles
    Tags: personal experience, priestesshood

    There’s a certain glamour about the hippie witch life that the uninitiated gravitate toward.  The carefree, commune-dwelling, love-and-peace aesthetic is alluring.  In the mind’s eye, the garden is always flourishing, the animals never get sick, the well pump never breaks, and the outside world is always accepting.

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  • Healing and Protection: The Two Essentials in the Craft

    Healing and Protection: The Two Essentials in the Craft

    March 5, 2025
    Amy Rhea
    Categories: Articles
    Tags: magick, personal practice, theology

    Marcy Young was my very first witchcraft teacher, and one of the things she taught eighteen-year-old me was that I always had permission to work magick for healing and for protection – as long as I did it in such a way as to not infringe on the free will of the person I was…

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  • Traditional Wicca, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Process

    Traditional Wicca, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Process

    March 4, 2025
    Amy Rhea
    Categories: Articles
    Tags: mysteries, personal practice, priestesshood

    Traditional Wicca is a priesthood.  Initiates are empowered to make direct contact with Deity and become Deity’s agents in the material world.  That’s it.  That’s the religion.

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  • The Death of a Dream: Churches, Seminaries, and Other Uphill Battles

    The Death of a Dream: Churches, Seminaries, and Other Uphill Battles

    February 4, 2025
    Amy Rhea
    Categories: Articles
    Tags: personal experience

    It was a long struggle for Taz and I both to realize that we, by ourselves, didn’t have the resources available to support the sort of infrastructure that we were trying to build.

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  • Abracadabra: Having the Courage to Create What We Speak

    Abracadabra: Having the Courage to Create What We Speak

    January 24, 2025
    Amy Rhea
    Categories: Articles
    Tags: magick, personal responsibility, queer witchery

    Speaking up, speaking out, speaking aloud, speaking confidently is an act of will, an act of magick.

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