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Basic Ritual It occurred to me there are people here out there who would not know where to start in performing a Ritual. This is a basic framework. Feel free to adapt and adjust to what you need as you grow and learn.. Set up your altar. Things that should be on it include:, candles, athame, wand, chalice, salt, water, , a pentacle, decorations that fit the time of year or Sabbat you are working with. Cleanse the area. Ritual cleansing Take a broom and stand in the area to be used as a sacred space. Close your eyes and visualize bright clear energy coming in the top of your…

The Occultic arts are an amazing wonder of suspense and discovery, the whole face of the occult has changed ever since the age knowledge has hit. There use to be a time when you would have to read lengthy books and articles to obtain wisdom, no we have reached an age to where we can download ebooks and access information without a care; this leads to treating information not as being a part of you, but a group of useless facts many of us will never use. The negligence of this information on the occult has been turned to sacrilege with being ‘just information’. For a moment in your life…

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more. *Ask Your Mama™ Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Spirituality and Didn’t Know Who to Ask™ by ©Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman A Question of Passion for Life Dear Urban Provocateur/Shaman, Is there really such a thing as a passion for living? Or is joy an idea promoted by the movies (or maybe you?) to offset the tragedies reported daily. I hear that water is being compromised with too much waste matter. I won’t even go into the air quality, or quality of thought around the world. I am always dealing with matters of no intrinsic…

She stands before a taint-less gate, Hingeless locks that total eight. A bright full moon can be seen, Her age in years, just eighteen. Inside she stands, she can’t escape, Standing tall, she bares a cape. Weathered granite, dark from mold, Gray and white, and icy-cold. Lonely sculls, line the floor, Lost in time, and folklore. This place is filled with cleverness, In ageless walls of ruthlessness. So many things do fill her mind, All the answers she hopes to find. Many writings fill this hall, A different language, on each wall. Her finger scanning every line, Complex spells she must define. Glowing eyes of transfixed gaze, Her mind sorts…

Hearth Heiress: Hestia She is said to be the warmth that spreads throughout our houses, leaving a calming state of mind.  She watches over ritual and cooking within the homes across the world.  She is the very flame that burns with an ethereal brightness in our fire pits.  Hestia, the Greek Goddess of the hearth, is not only a domestic women, but a protective motherly Goddess.  Even though Hestia promised to never marry and have children, she served as a mother figure for many Gods and Goddesses.  Hestia choose this because she felt it was true to her nature.  She wanted to choose her own path with no influenced of…

Home is Where the Heart Is Allow me to introduce myself. I am a “baby boomer” – a “child of the fifties”. I am part of that generation whose fathers came home from winning a great war, and then had us. Officially, we are those who were born between the years 1946 and 1959 although there are a few of us on either side of those years. We grew up during the stability and prosperity of the “Eisenhower Years” then looked forward with hope and anticipation to the promised glories of John F. Kennedy’s “Camelot.” I am part of that generation that came to my maturity in a time before…

Merry Meet and Happy Witches New Year Samhain is upon us and a new year is beginning.  We have an issue full of Samhain advice, recipes, crafts, and ideas. Our Etsy Shop is once again open and our stock is full again.  I apologize it has taken me so long to get it’s stock up.  But we are here and in time for the new year and Yule.  Please stop buy and see some of our new bookmarks and lower prices:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/paganpagesorg?ref=ss_profile We are currently looking for a new Meditation Writer as ours leaves us this year.  If you are interested in writing meditations or sharing your knowledge on meditation…

A little touch of Rome Ancient Romans had a major effect on modern paganism and parts of their culture need to be credited. Romans owed a high proportion of their language, architecture, religious beliefs and philosophy to the Greeks after the Greek culture was absorbed into Roman society when it became part of the empire. Even with this, Romans were a highly successful and intelligent society who introduced new technological advances into life. Early Romans paid homage to spirits rather than specific deities. The divinity in all things and early deities were known as ‘Numina’. Numina were divine manifestations. They were faceless and formless but very powerful. The Numina included…

What are the gods doing? What’s their “daily” life like? I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. If you were a god or goddess, what do you do all “day” long? To explore this, we’re going to have to try to change our perspective. These guys don’t live the kind of linear existence we do, nor are they bound by a physical body. They aren’t really “bound” by anything, so in order to understand what it’s like for them, we need to try and imagine the infinite possibilities of existence. Everyone loves a good superhero movie. There’s just something about a hero who can fly, has super strength, or…

Inner Witchcraft Working with Elementals Introduction These chapters were originally presented as information supplementary to that provided by the High Priestess of a coven I was advising over in Colorado.  Since I could not be physically present among them, I provided more private aspects of my practice, some part of which would surface at times were I with them.  My contention throughout has been that most magical energy is locked up within the human body and therefore preparation for witchcraft must attempt to remove some of these blocks so one can experience and make use of one’s native magical energy.  By ‘magical’ I mean here ‘capable of producing unexpected effects.’ …