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Light the Hill of Tara The dark half of the year Awakens Those that dwell in the hallow hills With flowers and candles I honor you Spirits of the Air Take me on this journey End my mourning Take sadness away Lift the veil of Seperation Of night and day In the dark of the Earth I plant the seeds Of who I want to be Great Goddess Cailleach With her hammer Hardens the earth Turns the night Thins the veil The Crone Now shines Spreads her dark cape To cover the hills Cover the sea Cover me in shadows And I shall remember There is nothing I want There…

*The Hedgewitch lives in the space between the Village and the Forest. Between the mundane and the magical. S/He lives with a foot in both worlds. This column is dedicated to the Hedgewitches of the planet earth. Working Witch Ever since I was a child, I have been a Healer. It began in my youth, fostered by programming from the church that it is our right to lay hands on the sick and they will be healed. I had never looked at the process any other way. When I reached my teens, and money was slim and none, I discovered herbs and began ferreting out their secrets. Having a new…

Derives it’s name from the eighth month of the oldest Roman calendar, Octem. Moon: The Blood Moon – The name Blood Moon comes from the custom of killing and salting down live stock for the upcoming winter months, not from sacrifice as some think. Astrological Signs: Libra, Scorpio. Nature Spirits: Frost faeries, plant faeries. Herbs: Pennyroyal, thyme, catnip, uva ursi, angelica, burdock. Colors: Dark blue-green. Flowers: Calendula, marigold, cosmos. Scents: Strawberry, apple blossom, cherry. Stones: Opal, rose sapphire, tourmaline, beryl, turquoise. Trees: Yew, cypress, acacia. Animals: Stag, jackal, elephant, ram, scorpion. Birds: Heron, crow, robin. Deities: Astarte, Belili, Cernunnos, Demeter, Hathor, Horned God, Ishtar, Kore, Lakshmi, the Morrigan, Osiris, The…

Persephone It happens every year; the warmer seasons fade to autumns docile colors and temperatures that soon bow to winter’s howling nipping winds. Reminding us that Persephone is starting her journey to the underworld to be with Hades; causing her mother Demeter to grieve and the earth lose her luster of spring and summer. It is said that the reason for the colder months is just the anguish of an ill-be-gotten mother whose daughter was taken from “under her nose”. The story goes as such; Hades; lord of the underworld; had fallen in love with Persephone; daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and had asked Zeus for her hand. Zeus fearing…

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…