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St. Patrick's Day Happy St. Patrick's Day! Let's employ a little color magic and turn the traditional "Wearing of the green" into your own Pagan celebration of the return of the Green Man. The waxing Moon is the perfect time to work for blessings and abundance. Enchant your item of emerald-colored clothing for good luck, magic, and prosperity. Can't you feel the Green Man returning? Spring is on the way! Green is the color of the God, new life, and the spring, His magic surrounds me now, ...
On March 15, the annual Shinto fertility festival Tagata Honen-Sai is celebrated. Carrying a giant wooden phallus through the streets, worshippers bless local farmers and farms with fertility. With the New Moon, turn your focus to fertility: nourishment, growth, and rebirth. What is started now grows with the waxing Moon, becoming gloriously full, abundant, and bright. What has lain dormant during the Moon's darkness can now be resurrected and enjoy rebirth. Whatever your focus, be it a ...
Magic is a force that flows through the world, pooling in certain places and objects. People have varying levels of affinity for it. Whatever your current level, you can increase it with regular exercise. The practice of witchcraft is not just about big spells and seasonal rituals. It relies at heart on the exercise of basic skills. A few minutes of meditation and energy manipulation every day will make for better progress than an hour-long ritual once a month. Each day, hold one of your ...
When we begin to acknowledge the blessings that are present all around us, our life becomes more blessed. Take some time today to give thanks and honor the gods for the blessings they have bestowed to you. One technique I learned from my first Witchcamp was the use of a prayer mala. Our teacher taught us to acknowledge something for which we are grateful on each of the 108 rudraksha beads. It's a simple practice that can bring amazing results to the way we see and interact with the world. If ...
