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M. Rainbow Bast Beltane Prints and notecards are available of M. Rainbow Bast’s work. Contact M. Rainbow Bast at [email protected] *** artist bio: M. Rainbow Bast is a CenteredPath Witchen Priestess and artist who transforms the experience of her spiritual path into her drawings & paintings. She has been drawing and painting since childhood. After raising a family and working for many years as a nurse, she returned to school to earn a BFA in studio art. The images she creates arise from meditations and magical work within the circle. May they bring you joy and connection with the earth on which we all live. Blessed Be. Prints and notecards…

Deborah Grieves Love Notes Moonbeam *** artist bio: (INSERT BIO PIC) Deborah Grieves has been enchanted by magic and myth since very early childhood. Fantasy painting is a relatively new passion for Deborah, one that she has embraced wholeheartedly in the past couple of years, and watercolors have become her medium of choice. Deborah currently lives in the Southern Oregon Rogue Valley, surrounded by the beauty of Nature. You can view more of Deborah’s work at: http://www.cynnaliafantasyart.com or View her Live Journal at: http://cynnalia.livejournal.com/

This is in response to the “Coming Out” articles in the March Issue of Pagan Pages My daughter-in-law’s mother is ordinarily a very sweet person, but when she found out that my daughter and I do not subscribe to Christianity, she began a bully pulpit campaign to convert us to her way of thinking……rabid, narrow-minded evangelicism. After enduring her questions, such as “aren’t you afraid you’ll go to Hell?” and “Why can’t you accept Jesus as your Savior?”, I finally looked her in the eye and said: “Karen, I do not proselytize you to convert to my religious beliefs, why do you feel you have the right to proselytize me…

As with many Afro-Carribean spiritual traditions, Vodou emphasizes ancestor service. Biological, spiritual, and other ancestors are served within the Vodou tradition. Our ancestors guide us, warn us, and assist us in furthering our personal spiritual development. Your ancestors may include deceased birth parents, relatives, adopted parents (if you were an adopted child), close friends, and those of your spiritual lineage. You can even honor the first ancestor and all your ancestors all the way back to the beginning of time. Ancestors are naturally a part of you and are easiest to serve. You should research your family tree. Look through your lineage and learn about yourself. Know yourself, as knowing…

Like most military pagan, I was a little apprehensive about stepping out of the broom closet for fear of the possible repercussions that might occur. Though, my experience has shown me, coming out was the best decision I have made in my short military career. Everyone in my platoon found out that I was a pagan believer in the fall of 2005 at a training area in Germany called Hohenfels. I was laying on my cot reading a book on Wiccan beliefs and practices when someone asked me if I believed in what I was reading. In a panic, I closed the book and got off my cot and headed…

Goddess Christian When I told my Pacific Northwest friends I was moving back to Georgia to help my mother tend to ill family members the first thing they asked was, “Are you coming out about being a witch?” This was followed by, “Is there really such a thing as Southern Baptist Witches?” To the latter question, I really have no answer as I am no longer the Southern Baptist Christian I was raised to be. To the former question my answer was an unequivocal “Yes.” Most of my Northwest friends are Pagan, Wiccan, or some other form of “Other.” And what has always surprised them is the fact that I…

CARING FOR YOUR CARDS Cleansing New decks should be cleansed before use. Many Tarot readers cleanse their cards regularly with sunlight, moonlight, or crystals. Placing your deck in the light of the full moon or bright sunlight once a month is said to cleanse the cards of any negative energies. Placing one or more crystals with your deck can accomplish the same purpose. Just don’t forget to cleanse the crystals periodically. Another method for cleaning your cards is to meditate upon the deck and envision positive energy surrounding the cards in the form of a purifying white light. Imagine the light’s radiant luminosity cleansing your cards of any negative or…

Bright Blessings to you all, I am Broom and let me start by introducing myself to you. I live in the USA in the State of Minnesota.I was born and raised in the state of Texas so some times I just feel out of whack do to seasons change here a lot later than down in the southern states of the USA. I have been a Kitchen Witch now for 16 years and just recently discovered I tend to pull to the Hedge Witch by defination. I seem to have a very weird (laughs out loud) sense of humor as I see the world around me. I use the Wiccan…

When I visited the great and ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, I was in awe of the massive stones that have stood for at least 5000 years. To think that it was built with only stones and animal bones as tools. The image above is a painting by Belenus of the bluestones and Sarsen stones of Stonehenge from photographs he has taken. Forming Stonehenge The standing stones of Stonehenge are remarkable to visit as I was fortunate to do a few years ago. The circle of stones sits in a huge plain known as Salisbury Plain. When I walked along the plain, it was hard to imagine that it was…

One doesn’t have to be a witch to practice sexual magick. All that it requires is a setting, or mood; intent (prayer) and energy-raising (the act itself). Anyone can do it. It happened to a friend of mine. From the 1990s onward, he and his wife became estranged from one another due to a major rift that has become irreparable. During the 90s, he left home but returned soon afterward to try to resolve the marriage. During that time, he told me, he and his wife were intimate only a handful of times. One of those times, he prayed for a child. When the wife stopped having periods, she assumed…