Archives: July2009
- How To Create Moon Circles and Harness the The Power of the Moon
Painful Womanhood
When I was younger, I had horrendous menstrual periods. I dreaded every month as the symptoms came on, for it meant two days of agony, vomiting, dizziness, back pain, every kind of torture a girl can go through without dying.
During the 1980’s it was a new thing to discuss women’s health issues openly. Before [...] - A Poem of Faery Witchcraft
My friend Alex sent me this poem a while back. I don’t know if he translated it from his native French, but it is very intriguing. The images are archetypal and strike a deep, primal chord. It seems Alchemical.
This what he says about it:This is a poem from 1692, from a very rare book on [...]
- Babalon Diaries Appendix # 2: The Qliphoth, by Paul A. Green
This is an appendix to my series of posts about my adventures during 2005, leading up to the performance of Paul Green’s play Babalon. The story is full of cloak and dagger, initiatory strangeness, chaos, and hysteria. It shows what can happen on the Magical path if one is not careful…(as if one has choice…)
Directed [...] - The Shadow Effect
The Shadow Effect
Introducing the blog of Corinne Edwards: Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards
I found this on the blog of the fabulous Corrine Edwards at Personal Growth With Corinne Edwards.
Be sure to visit Corinne’s blog, it is full of humor, down to earth wisdom, and interviews with famous icons of the personal growth movement like Deepak [...] - Understanding the Tree of Life, and the Qliphoth
This is an appendix to my series of posts about my adventures during 2005, leading up to the performance of Paul Green’s play Babalon. The story is full of cloak and dagger, initiatory strangeness, chaos, and hysteria. It shows what can happen on the Magical path if one is not careful…(as if one has choice…)
Directed [...] - The Burning Times
This series of videos is a Canadian documentary I saw a long time ago. It is beautifully produced and tells a story that has shaped our world even to this day. It takes about 90 minutes to watch them all.
I was amazed when I lived in London what difficulties I sometimes had with men who [...] - 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 — [...]
- “Mother Earth” by Within Temptation
I can’t resist sharing this wonderful video with you all. The link was sent to me by my friend Alex whose comments are like blog posts and full of wisdom.
Enjoy!Birds and butterflies
Rivers and mountains she creates
But you’ll never know
The next move she’ll make
You can try
But it is useless to ask why
Cannot control her
She goes her [...] - Witches Familiars: Magic of the Horse
The White Mare of Britain
In April of 1996, I spent a full month traveling around the British Isles on what I called my “King Arthur Tour”, or my “Holy Grail Tour”.
The previous November, the visitations from the Tuatha de Danaan, or the Faery Court of Ireland, had begun, plunging me into a life of altered [...] - Nigel Jackson and “Winter Rouses All My Grief”
The Magical Art of Nigel Jackson
While living in London, I was perusing the bookshelves in the legendary Atlantis Bookshop, across from the British Museum and not far from The Plough pub, haunt of Victorian and Edwardian magicians in the hay days of the London occult scene.
In Atlantis, I found a book called The Pillars of [...]
