Category: Articles
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Deferred Maintenance: Rebuilding A Spiritual Practice
Categories: ArticlesOne of the things I had to do as my mind began to recover was to become more aware of the capabilities I have now – at 42 years old – instead of holding myself to the same standards that I did at 32 or even 22 years old.
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The Hippie Witch Life: An Apprenticeship In Retrospect
Categories: ArticlesThere’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
Categories: ArticlesMarcy 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
Categories: ArticlesTraditional 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
Categories: ArticlesTags: personal experienceIt 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.