WINTERSPELLS: Life on the Magical Path

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• Ogham & Faery Divination

  Ogham and The Book of Ballymote

  I am writing a book on the Irish Ogham. I have been working with the Trees and the strange alphabet based on them, and reputed to be one of the only things to have come to us from the Druids,  since the mid 1980’s. I wrote a poem way back [...]

• A Film About Faery Seer, Rev. Robert Kirk

  The Secret Commonwealth

  in 1692, Reverend Robert Kirk hand wrote a notebook about on Scottish folkloric Faery Tradition not long before his mysterious death. The  notebook was called “The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies.”
  Legend has it that Robert Kirk walked between the worlds and had finally entered into Faery and was never seen again. [...]

• London: Spirits of the Land, The Faerie Queene

  Elizabeth Tudor: the Faerie Queene
  Of Faerie lond yet if he more inquire,
  By certaine signes here set in sundry place
  He may it find; ne let him then admire,
  But yield his sence to be too blunt and bace,
  That no’te without an hound fine footing trace.
  And thou, O fairest Princesse vnder sky,
  In this faire mirrhour [...]

• Creating Sacred Space: Part 2

  Above, Below, and Between
  In the preceding article, Creating Sacred Space, I described how to create a Magic Circle based on the Four Directions of the compass. East, South. West, and North. This is the horizontal Place Between the Worlds, but there at three vertical directions needed  to complete the Astral Temple that really takes one [...]

• Witchery of the Frog and Toad

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  Witchery of Frog and Toad
  I’ll go to the toad
  That lives under the wall;
  I’ll charm him out
  And he’ll come to my call.
  The Frog King

  In the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, Frog King, a little princess chases her golden ball around the [...]

• Thomas Rhymer: An Exploration of A Faery Ballad

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  Child Ballads:
  One of the things that drew me to the Faery Tradition was my love of the old Child Ballads. these were collected throughout the British Isles by a folklorist Francis James Child in the late 19th century.
  This [...]