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Then Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future began like so many adventures—with a sequence of events and their inevitable consequences. It had been easily twenty years since I'd attended any form of pagan gathering, but I was invited to give a workshop at one in the spring of the end of last century. Did I want to attend? No. Fortunately, in retrospect, two of the other witches in the Coven of Wildwood Gate did want to go, and wanted the experience. I contacted the organizers and suggested I do something utterly out of the ordinary—provide a couple of classes teaching archery and morning sessions of good, hearty martial arts stretch sessions (as those of us in the coven are ...
What inspired me to write All Around the Zodiac was the realization that, while Sun-sign paperbacks are easily available, it’s nearly impossible to find detailed books about the twelve signs themselves. That's too bad, because the insight that the zodiac provides is vital to our understanding of those dynamic themes that fuel our lives, even from a karmic point of view. Perhaps it's no wonder that readers often develop a better grasp of the other components of natal astrology (the planets, houses, aspects—even forecasting techniques). They may feel less informed about the character-shaping power of the signs and most so when such signs are labeled as "incompatible." How can ...
It's as clear in my mind as if it happened yesterday. I was ten years old, and had been befriended by a middle-aged lady who lived a few houses away. She was a good cook, and regularly invited me in to try her baking. I usually sat in the kitchen with her, but on this day the phone went, and she put me in their library, as it was an important call. I had never been in a home that had a library, and as I was a keen reader, it was exciting to sit in a room with books up to the ceiling on all four walls. I walked around the room, eating cake, and looking at the books. I happened to notice a dozen or more books on palmistry. I had no idea what that was, and when Mrs. Tompkins finished her ...
Recently, I was re-reading Eliphas Levi's classic Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, and a passage stuck out to me: "Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men." I had written a similar statement in my book Psychic Witch, where I state that, "Magick changes everything it touches and everything it touches changes." It is my firm belief that magick does transform people and their lives, for better or for worse, and that the proper path of magick should be transforming you for ...
