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    Equinox of the Heart – Exclusive Poem from Author Mabh Savage

    A Brand New Poem from Author Mabh Savage, Exclusive to PaganPagesOrg.       Equinox of the Heart   March winds come before April showers May flowers Cleaning the earth Blowing away Winter’s chilling dust Remnants of rot Leaf piles dead Slushy, slimy heaps of Seasonal trash Yet busting out with life Wood lice, slugs, snails, early caterpillars Then birds that come to feast Blackbirds, robins, and now the mistle thrush Pecking industriously Through a compost carnival Early spring’s banquet Against a backdrop of Cautious blossom.   My heart, my heart blooms like the Snowdrop the Crocus the Narcissus Waiting to be plucked To plunge me down into the Earth…

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    Book Review – The Light of Hermes Trismegistus: New Translations of Seven Essential Hermetic Texts by Charles Stein

    Book Review The Light of Hermes Trismegistus New Translations of Seven Essential Hermetic Texts by Charles Stein Publisher: Inner Traditions 352 Pages Publication Date: December 6, 2022     This book is a unique compilation of seven texts and excerpts/fragments of texts that Stein considers to be essential to Hermeticism. These texts have never been published together and are translated by Stein from Greek or Latin. The included works are: The Theogony of Hesiod The Homeric Hymn to Hermes The “Poem of Parmenides” The Chaldean Oracles “The Vision of Isis” from the Metamorphosis of Apuleius “On Divine Virtue” by Zosimos of Panopolis The subject is introduced at the start of…

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    Book Review – How to Become a Modern Magus: A Manual for Magicians of All Schools by Don Webb

    Book Review How to Become a Modern Magus: A Manual for Magicians of All Schools by Don Webb Publisher: Destiny Books 651 Pages Release Date: January 17, 2023         One question I hear a lot when I talk about spirituality or “being witchy” is “How do I learn magic? How do I start practicing?” I usually try to explain, in as few words as possible, that it’s a feeling, an intention that we put into the universe. In life, we tend to overcomplicate things and let the fear of doing something wrong intimidate us into doing nothing at all, so it’s wonderful that I now have one…

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    Notes from the Apothecary

    Notes from the Apothecary: Wild Garlic     Wild garlic or Allium ursinum is a fragrant perennial plant with tiny clusters of white flowers atop long, lush green leaves that don’t grow any higher than most people’s ankles. It’s also known as ramsons in Europe and ramps in the United States. Other related plants such as Allium canadense and Allium tricoccum are also called ramps or wild garlic, and just to be more confusing, you might also hear them called wild leeks or wood leeks. Whatever you call them, there’s no escaping the fact that these plants are one of the most delicious smelling harbingers of spring. In the woods…

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    Living the Oily Life

    Oils: The Basics     Plants have been around since the beginning of time and their benefits have been harvested, but not to the extent they are known now. The essential oil industry over the past several years has boomed as people started to look more toward non-traditional and less Westernized medicine. If it has worked for millennia, why not now? Oils can be distilled in multiple ways. Typically there are 2: Steam and expression. Steam is the most common way. Heat is used with a combo of gentle pressure and this combo causes the essential oils to be released. The oil lays on top of a layer of water…

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    MagickalArts

    What Are the Magickal Arts?   … As magickal practitioners we are all “artists” in our own ways, honing our skills of creating magick, weaving patterns of energy that affect change and calling to the most Divine of our natures as we align with cosmos, greater earth and all of the many Beings that inhabit those realms. And, I like where this trend is taking us in exploring the craft in all of forms….   Spring is awakening and we honor The Magickal Art of Creation and Manifestation!     For many of us the turning of the Greater Wheel to the Spring Equinox (aka. Ostara) is one of anticipation…

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    Book Review – Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed

    Book Review Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed Publisher: Weiser Books 272 pages Release Date: August 1, 2022         I kid you not, this book – Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed, and published by Weiser Books – has sat on my desk for at least four months. I did start reading it back before – gee, was it Samhain? – I honestly do not remember. I marked a few pages that I wanted to scan and life got away from me – I had to take care of a few health issues that I…

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    Celebrating The Old Ways in New Times – Final Edition

    Celebrating The Old Ways in New Times 2023 – Final Edition Bright Blessings! Since 2016, I have written about the Sabbats in this column. As the Wheel turns, and seasons change, so do we, and this old witch wants a new topic. This will be my final Celebrating The Old Ways in New Times, and starting with the next issue, I will be writing a column about Tarot. I’m a Tarot reader and have been for years. I was lucky enough to be one of the readers at the psychic fair that was this past weekend at the shop where I get to read, and let me tell you, being…