Tags: Wicca
- Does This Sound Like You?
Could you be a Carrier of the Witch Blood?
Sharon Tate in “Eye of the Devil”, 1963. Initiated by Alex Sanders in preparation for her role as Odile LeCaray, she may have been a natural witch. Her Astrological chart with its strong Neptunian influence suggest this may be so.
Are You:
psychic?
drawn to dark, mysterious things?
not [...] - Love to Our Ancestors on Samhain : Stepping Out of the Shadows
Alexandrian Ritual
Samhain is a time to honor our ancestors.
Time to lay out a feast and invite them to dine, to share their presence with us while the veil is thin.
So, in respect for those who came before, I have made a small Ancestral Gallery of Witches. Give them a smile, tip your hat, light [...] - Witch Museum: Boscastle, Cornwal
Museum of Witches, Boscastle, Cornwall
Cornwall is the last stronghold of the Witches….This very interesting video was made in the 1960’s about the Witch Museum in Boscastle, Cornwall, bought by Gerald Gardener in 1952 — the year after the repeal of the witchcraft ban!
This video is very atmospheric, dramatically sensationalizing the dark side the Magic that [...] - The Root of Confusion: Admission vs. Initiation
I found this very interesting article by Trystn Branwynn at Trystn’s Occult Journal and got his permission to reprint it here. Since Initiation is one of the main focuses of Winterspells, I found Trystn’s ideas very compelling. His thesis that Initialtion is granted by the Destroyer Gods, that the path of Magic is transformational — [...]
- Interview with Tarot Historian, Paul Huson
Paul Huson
Paul Huson is one the most interesting writers on the occult. His approach to witchcraft has inspired many magical people since the publication of his classic Mastering Witchcraft in 1970. He is a proponent of ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ , rather than Wicca. The most apparent difference between these two approaches is that, while Wicca is [...] - Wicca: The Charge of the Goddess
Wicca was born in the 1930’s.
Organized Wicca was begun by Gerald Gardener who, influenced by Margaret Murray’s disputed yet evocative books, God of the Witches, The Witch Cult in Western Europe, and Aradia: Goddess of the Witches by Geoffrey Leland, began putting together the first Book of Shadows, a compendium of spells and rituals that [...]
