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“I Fell in Love with a Witch”: The Vision of Gerald Gardner

November 03, 2017

Some people argue that Gardnerians cannot claim to have the right to do something merely because Gardner did it. Yes, the historical pattern is that religious founders always have rights and privileges that their followers cannot have. I see this clearly in the three cases I know best, those of Gardner, Joseph Smith, and the Rabbi Joshua (whose Greek name was Jesus).

WITCHES

August 23, 2017

Witchcraft helps us to embrace the extraordinary and to transform the life we lead, there are more of us than you think in the world quietly going about our day to day life, and just as quietly being a witch. Many modern day witches choose to stay undercover and wear the garb of the everyday person, many witches these days are also business people, I wonder if you can pick the witch in a crowd.

WIZARDS

August 22, 2017

There have been many wizards over the ages, it takes a certain energy to be a wizard, they are born not made, the stereotypical wizard image is of course Merlin, who was King Arthur’s magician. Wizards possess certain abilities, for one thing they are all endowed with exceptional psychic powers and without any effort whatsoever they see into the future, their own and others. They have the ability to know when to act and when not to act, they have an acute sense of what will and will not work.

WITCHCRAFT & SUPERNATURAL BEINGS

August 19, 2017

Witchcraft is the art of bringing magical power to manifest that which you desire, it can be used to benefit or to harm, certain individuals are thought to have supernatural powers and everyone has a thought or image of what they deem a witch to be. In the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries witchcraft was thought of as a heretical sect and in direct opposition to Christianity. It was a particularly difficult time for witches as they were considered doers of evil, and witchcraft was considered a crime, the European witch hunts reached the American colonies in the seventeenth century. The original word for witch was Wiccan, and the meaning changes from society to society, witches were seen as female and considered old crones. This was the thinking even if they were beautiful, although if this was the case it was thought that they would lure unsuspecting men with their charms. Many who distrusted witches were convinced that they were shape shifters, and were able to present themselves in any guise they chose, it was also thought they could turn people into other beings, it was believed that a witch could appear in human form, as an animal, or as energy, a witch could also fly on a broomstick and was able to become invisible.

HALLOWEEN

August 16, 2017

Halloween is thought to have strong pagan beginnings, it has also been linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, this was a time of communities preparing for the winter months, and people’s thoughts focus on the supernatural. At this time the Irish built bonfires where they invoked the help of the gods, they sacrificed animals during their rituals, and possibly there were human sacrifices. The pagan origins of Halloween come from symbolic practices and are remembered as a time of supernatural energies denoting winter’s beginning, it was also a time when the souls of the dead would revisit their old homes to find comfort by their hearths and enjoy the atmosphere of the home. In Celtic lore winter was considered the dark time of the year, while summer returned to the underworld.

WITCH’S WAY

August 14, 2017

Drawing the Power Source

On a deep spiritual level our higher selves are influenced by the natural world, the stars, the Moon the Sun, and as we draw down their energies into ourselves to enhance our lives, we are tapping into a cosmic energy supply. Through everything the eternal life force courses, prana in Hindu philosophy, to the Chinese it is chi. It is a source continuously available for all of us, permeating every aspect of our being, enabling us to draw harmony, energy, and connection with others. Witchcraft is the oldest religion in the world, it has been kept alive through folk tradition, and by families who embraced and passed on the old beliefs of worshipping the Moon Mother. Witchcraft and Wicca, derive their names from the words for wisdom, witch is from the old English word wicca, meaning wise, the Wicca were known as the “wise ones.”