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Oh magic night I walk along in your moonlight warm Breezes blow but all I feel is your sweet glow. Oh magic night Wolfs howl and owls cry, but all I want to do is fly. Oh magic night Fire is burning in my heart, I can feel it all start. Oh magic night waves crash across the sea, please give your power to me. Oh Magic night The earth is giving me the will to try, I’m up and I can fly! Oh magic night I walk along in your moonlight, lead me to the path that’s right! Oh Magic Night! Copyright ©2008  Jackie Corcoran

Stars & Dung I tend to read my horoscope every week.  Not the silly one in the daily papers, but Rob Brezny’s Freewill Astrology. It’s amazing how close to home he hits, although I often get the idea he’s talking about what I just went through, not what I’m about to go through.  Here is the one for me (Sagittarius) for the week of October 15-22: “Be humble for you are made of dung,” says a Serbian provers. “Be noble for you are made of stars.”  I expect that you’ll soon be getting vivid evidence of that truth, Sagittarius.  Your challenge will be to resist the temptation to believe that…

Skara Brae What makes a site sacred? When I started visiting Pagan sacred sites I knew they would be places of great beauty, spiritually, and ancestor worship. Places that would make us feel as though we are a part of something greater than ourselves. My search was for a link between then and now. While in the Orkney Islands, we walked in the footsteps of an ancient people. We saw the places where these people lived and where they buried and honored their dead. What did we have in common, how did they live and survive?  They tell us their stories preserved in stone, evidence of tradition and a link…

A Green Religion One of the main aspects that drew me to learning about Wicca is that is an earth-based spiritual practice.  Honor and respect for our planet is now more important than ever as we hurtle ever faster towards a worldwide environmental crisis.  Though of course it is not impossible to both care for the environment and follow a traditional Western religion or other path, earth-based practices differ in that they shift the focus of what constitutes the sacred.  Wicca does not view the earth as a mere residence or a set of resources.  To many she is the very Goddess herself: Gaia.  Her green limbs extend upward to…

Faeries, Elves, & Other Kin: The Fae and their Origin The name fairy comes from the Old French word faerie. The word faerie as we commonly know it has been hackneyed by using it to describe paranormal beings and the like. Never the less, there is an enormous amount of differentiation in categorizing a faerie from today’s modern literature and those of literature from the middle ages, particularly those of the Celtic tradition as well as from other faerie traditions such as those from  Germany, England and many Slavic countries. Oftentimes when one thinks about the Fae, they envision them as tiny winged creatures flittering around a glittering unearthly light…

Keeping your kitchen space…both magickal and mundane A neat and tidy kitchen is not needed for magickal cooking but it certainly helps. Keeping the spiritually as well as the culinary cleaned up is pretty easy. You can start by using cleaning products that are non-toxic and biodegradable. As GREEN is the way to go these days it is not very hard to find Use wash clothes instead of paper towels. Many things you have in your home right now.. You can clean a grubby pan with uncooked rice or sea salt instead of with a scouring pad and harsh cleaners (Brillo) You can clean your sink with lemon juice and…

This article is dedicated to Father Jordan Stratford+ of the Apostolic Johannite Church and fellow witch, who helped me to find Holy Sophia. My long, agonizing journey towards becoming a Christian Witch began on the day that I left the Christian Church forever, which was thirteen years ago.  After having been an Ultra- Traditional Catholic followed by my conversion to the Russian Orthodox Church, one day, I simply walked out of the 2,000 year old, heavy oaken Christian door and never looked back.  Or, so I thought at the time. Leaving Christianity had nothing to do with Jesus Christ or his Mother Mary, the latter, to whom I had been…

The Great Pumpkin…Seed Pumpkins are one of Mother Nature’s many gifts.  It is easy to take this gift for granted especially, when we see them adorning walkways and porches in honor of Halloween.   In fact many of us throw out the most important part of the pumpkin, the seed.  Pumpkin seeds are one of nature’s perfect foods.  The nutritional value of pumpkinseeds makes them a powerhouse of nutrients packed with most of the B vitamins, as well as C, D, E, and K. They contain essential minerals including magnesium, calcium, potassium, niacin, zinc and phosphorous.  Holistic practitioners have used Pumpkin seeds for centuries to eliminate various types of intestinal parasites,…

From THE DIARY OF ANA  D’MITRIEV May 1, 1993 Sumner’s a good sort, underneath that persona.  He knows his job, even if he does seem as dense as a granite slab sometimes. I seem to be the envy of my department, if the letters I get from some of the other grad students is any indication.  Even Sandy, who’s off to warm, tropical Belize to work on a Mayan excavation, writes that she’s envious. “Travel to strange, foreign places, meet fascinating exotic people, dine on spice and intrigue – become an archaeologist”.  Right, if a can of cold beans as an alternative to lard soup is spicy, and being leered…