Welcome to the September Issue of PaganPages Magazine. We hope everyone had a wonderful and safe summer and is ready for Fall to begin!!! This month we are reopening our Yahoo group for all to join!  You can join our group by going to yahoo groups and looking up WBPaganF.  Everyone is welcome to join and we look forward to seeing you there! Sexual Magick Column is back this month after a short break.  We welcome it’s author Olen back! We have a new column starting this month:  Song of a Daily Druid by Alison Shaffer.  We welcome her to our family! It is time for the Final Lesson in…

What do you think it meant to be a witch back in “the old days”? Well, in Europe as well as the east coast it meant a death sentence for one thing. If you were caught practicing what the authorities considered to be witchcraft, you were arrested, and most, hanged or burned. Sad Times. Sadder still were some of the things which could label you as a witch. Aside from actually healing someone, or helping someone with their crops, you could be assumed a witch just by the shape of your chin, or lies told by your neighbor. That was the usual way you were declared a witch. More sorry,…

The Essence of Color Color-based magic is quite popular amongst witches, and is one of the first set of correspondences many of us study.  In a spellworking the colors may be coordinated from the candles, to the altar cloth, to any stones/crystals, etc., with all of the elements combining to symbolize the intent of the worker.  Green items may be gathered for a money-drawing charm, or perhaps red for a spell to give courage and strength.  Witches also typically use the primary colors of vision and pigment to represent the balance of the elements: red for fire, blue for water, yellow for air, and green for earth. While there are…

Merry Meet and Bountiful Blessings everyone, well all we have made it to our final lesson and as I said in our last issue we will be learning the basic Three Rune Draw. In the Three Rune Draw, much like the any other draw you will first need to spread out your rune casting cloth; while making sure to mix them toughly reach in to their pouch and randomly without looking pick out three stones. Now take a moment to clear your mind and body of all pent up energies (Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth, do this five times) that have accumulated over the day. Now…

Katherine Marie Bryant Warwick was born in May of 1972 in Demorest, GA. to Johnny and Betty Maney Bryant. She grew up with a love for the spiritual nature of the Northeast Georgia area. At the age of thirteen she received her first 110 camera and was completely hooked. On her sixteenth birthday her mother bought her the one thing on her list, a 35mm. Minolta Maxxum Camera and 50mm lens. She never completely understood how it worked until after high school when she enrolled in the Commercial Photography program at North Georgia Technical Institute in Clarkesville Georgia in 1995. She graduated with honors in 1997 and went on to…

Balance Through the Sacred Apple One of the fruits most associated with the Autumnal Equinox is the apple.  You can use it as an altar decoration or as part of your Sabbat feast.  This versatile yet average-every-day-fruit has some very ancient magickal roots. The Apple Tree is associated with the goddess, most specifically Ishtar, Aphrodite (Venus), Hera, Athena, Freya, Cerridwen, Pamona and Idunna.  The Greek Pamona and the Norse Idunna are perhaps the best known for their sacred, magickal apples.  Pamona was considered both a Hamadryad (a wood nymph) as well as a goddess while Idunna was a maiden goddess of the earth.  Pamona as the goddess of the apple…

Wild Foods for Wise Women The Missing Part of Your Diet May Be In Your Own Back Yard Boost Your Immunity and Prevent Cancer With Dandelion, Honeysuckle, Clover and Other Ordinary Weeds Did you know that many of those unglamorous “weeds” that you’ve been poisoning or pulling out of your garden and lawn are some of the world’s most well-respected and powerful healing plants? If not, you aren’t alone: many people don’t realize that common ordinary weeds can build and maintain good health. Common weeds that grow by you can boost your immunity, strengthen your liver, help you build strong blood, counter colds and the flu, increase your vitality, and…

sees herself in the skeleton of moonlight, a sentient being in the whiteness of madness where disturbing platitudes of murmuring curses echo through the fascination of a crystal ball. She, irksome black witch, bleeds green gems of woven jade as an opaque pavilion of stars wades into tangled clouds. In the darkness, She grows larger! In the darkness, She grows louder! Holistic eyelids like a scythe proscribe morbid dances drinking in the calmness of tandem wines. The history of past years inhale and exhale wildly through an open stare of pure consciousness, finding a beacon to eulogize humanity’s cries without censure. Relish in Her beauty, for She is the Goddess…

MAY-bon, MAY-bun, MAY-bone, MAH-boon or MAH-bawn, – Lesser Sabbat – Fall/Autumn Equinox, September 21-23 Michaelmas (September 25th, Christian), Second Harvest Festival, Witches’ Thanksgiving, Harvest Home (Anglo-Celtic), Feast of Avalon, Wine Harvest, Festival of Dionysus, Cornucopia, Equinozio di Autunno (Strega), Chung Chiu (China), Night of the Hunter, Alban Elfed “The Light of the Water”(Caledonii/ Druidic-celebrates Lord of the Mysteries), Winter Finding (Teutonic, from Equinox ’til Winter Night or Nordic New Year, Oct 15th.) Mabon is considered a time of the Mysteries. It is a time to honor Aging Deities and the Spirit World. Considered a time of balance, it is when we stop and relax and enjoy the fruits of our…

“Serpent Knowing Rite” A solitary inner journey to regain your hidden knowledge for closure and healing. Supplies A key Small blackboard tablet A piece of yellow or white chalk A small representation of a snake God and Goddess candles and holders A chalice and plate An offering bowl A beverage and a food item Rite Sit down in a comfortable position and ground yourself in your own traditional way. When you are ready, cast a sacred circle and call forth the Elementals in your own traditional way. Invoke the God and Goddess and welcome them to your circle.  Light the God and Goddess candles on your altar. Seat yourself in…