WINTERSPELLS: Life on the Magical Path

Archives: March2009

• Bela Bartok: Powers in the Land

  I didn’t intend to write a separate post about the composer of Bluebeard’s Castle, but Wordpress has its limitations. Among them the impossibility of adding to a the bottom of a post once it has an image or a video on it.
  This is just for those who might be interested to know A bit about [...]

• Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

  Bluebeard’s Castle: The Opera
  Agnes Zwierko and Martin Gurbal’ as Judit and Bluebeard in fragments of DUKE BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE 2004
  For those of you who may want to hear the music composed by Bela Bartok for Bluebeard’s Castle, I found this one from 2004. Musically, I feel this is the best. the revolving churn of the [...]

• The Dark Side of Faery Tales: Bluebeard’s Castle

  Faery Tales and the Subconscious Mind

  The evocative images in Faery Tales have animated my subconscious imagination since early childhood. I have not just been influenced by the wish-fulfilling, romantic-expectation fantasy aspect of Fairy Tales that has been criticized as the bane of young women by some feminists. It is the dark, disturbing elements that [...]

• Witch’s Familiars: Animal Spirits and Their Charms

  What is a Witch’s Familiar?
  I have written about the subject of Witches Familiars, but have not provided a definition. Some people may  not know this term, or not be aware of the special relationship that witches have had with animals since time began. There are quite a few layers of meaning to explore here, and  [...]

• 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 [...]

• LUX

  If you believe in light, it’s because of obscurity,
  If you believe in joy, it’s because of sadness,
  And if you believe in God, it’s because of the Devil
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• Mysteries of the Tarot: The Ship of Fools

  The Ship of Fools: Heironymous Bosch

  Ship of Fools, by Heironymous Bosch
  As a great fan of Heironymous Bosch, I could not help posting a whole boatload of Fools! Note the little head in the tree!
  I found an interesting source for the idea of the painting in a book called Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between [...]

• Mysteries of the Tarot: The Fool

  The Fool

  “…but we will speak only of those things which are difficult, and not to be grasped by the senses, but, indeed, which are almost contrary to the evidence of the senses.”
  Paracelsus, Archidoxi Magica

  Using my own handpainted Holy Grail Tarot, I will use this blog to teach the definitions of the cards and [...]

• The Celestial UnderWorld

  When the our ancestors thought the world was flat, the celestial realms were called ‘Heaven above’, and whatever was underground was ‘Hell below’. Heaven was a sparkling place full of light, visible,  showed the patterns of the seasons, weather, and time events that the ancients depended upon  for survival. Being ‘above’, the Heavens were thought [...]

• How to Know if Your House is Haunted

  How to Tell if Your House is Haunted
  by Lucifera, Queen of Elfhame

  You can find my stuff elsewhere on the web. At EHow.com I write humorous paranormal articles under the name Lucifera, Queen of Elfhame.  This is my first post ever online. It has been very popular. If you like this let me know and I [...]