Blessings Darlings!
I'm going to be doing a bunch of reviews of 'free for kindle' Wicca 101 books (When I told a friend this, she asked me why I was going to torture myself.)
So now, before I start doing the book reviews, I'm going to be up front about what I want to see in any Wicca 101 books. So here's the list:
HISTORY OF WICCA
WHAT YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO BE WICCAN
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO BE WICCAN
SABBATS
ESBATS
LETS TALK INITIATION
THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR
QUARTER CAST CIRCLES
WHY/WHEN TO DO CIRCLES
ELEMENTS
ELEMENTALS
DIRECTIONS
WATCHTOWERS
IF YOUR CIRCLE TAKES YOU TO A TIME THAT IS NOT A TIME, A PLACE THAT IS
NOT A PLACE ... HOW DOES THAT WORK WITH THE CIRCLE OF THE YEAR AND YOUR EVER SO CAREFULLY DECORATED SEASONAL ALTAR?
DRAWING DOWN THE MOON AND POLARITY-BASED MAGIC (THE ONLY TYPE OF MAGIC THAT I FEEL CAN BE CALLED 'WICCAN')
YEAH, THROW IN SOMETHING ABOUT GROUNDING AND CENTERING
THROW IN A TINY BIT ON STUFF YOU MIGHT WANT ON YOUR ALTAR.
Now you know what I'll be looking for when I do book reviews. Gods help us all.
Frondly, Fern
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Casting a Quarter-Cast Circle
Blessings Darlings!
I'm going to steal my own writings here. I explained circle casting in a Facebook group today, and I'm cutting and pasteing that here now. Enjoy!
A circle is one way of creating sacred space for magic or ritual or healing or whatever purpose. The 'typical' circle is a quarter-cast one, using either the 4 directions or the 4 elements as part of the structure. Details, as always, will depend on the magical group or tradition one trains in. Generically - you can start in the East. Using your finger, or an athame, or a wand, you ask for the power of that direction or element to ward the circle and add it's power to your working, then visualize a blue (usually) etheric flame pouring from it. You visualize that line of flame going from that quarter to the next, as you walk to the South. Repeat, asking that direction or element. Repeat for the next two quarters, and after you invite the North or Earth, continue the line of blue flame to the east again, completing the circle. At that point, change the visualization of the blue flame from a circle around you in one dimension to an orb around you in three dimensions.
You can get fancier. You can have altars at each of the directions. You can draw pentagrams at each direction and open a gate for the power of that direction to enter thru'. Etc.
After you do the hoodoo you do in the circle, you take the circle down by thanking the powers you invited and bidding them farewell. Some do this in the reverse order that the powers were called in, some don't. Use the same tool you used to cast to 'suck up' the energy of the blue flame as you dismiss. And ground that tool afterwards (ground yourself if you used your hand/finger, put the top of the tool to the earth if you used a tool).
Here are the words to two sung quarter-castings by Isaac Bonewits http://www.neopagan.net/IB_Songs_WiccanRitual.html
The Calling, with the blue flame visualization, really is it for a simple circle casting.
The only tool needed is Knife/athame, or wand, or pointed finger.
Again, you can get fancier. And you're going to get better results the more intimate you are with the elements/elementals and the directions.
Any questions?
Frondly, Fern
I'm going to steal my own writings here. I explained circle casting in a Facebook group today, and I'm cutting and pasteing that here now. Enjoy!
A circle is one way of creating sacred space for magic or ritual or healing or whatever purpose. The 'typical' circle is a quarter-cast one, using either the 4 directions or the 4 elements as part of the structure. Details, as always, will depend on the magical group or tradition one trains in. Generically - you can start in the East. Using your finger, or an athame, or a wand, you ask for the power of that direction or element to ward the circle and add it's power to your working, then visualize a blue (usually) etheric flame pouring from it. You visualize that line of flame going from that quarter to the next, as you walk to the South. Repeat, asking that direction or element. Repeat for the next two quarters, and after you invite the North or Earth, continue the line of blue flame to the east again, completing the circle. At that point, change the visualization of the blue flame from a circle around you in one dimension to an orb around you in three dimensions.
You can get fancier. You can have altars at each of the directions. You can draw pentagrams at each direction and open a gate for the power of that direction to enter thru'. Etc.
After you do the hoodoo you do in the circle, you take the circle down by thanking the powers you invited and bidding them farewell. Some do this in the reverse order that the powers were called in, some don't. Use the same tool you used to cast to 'suck up' the energy of the blue flame as you dismiss. And ground that tool afterwards (ground yourself if you used your hand/finger, put the top of the tool to the earth if you used a tool).
Here are the words to two sung quarter-castings by Isaac Bonewits http://www.neopagan.net/IB_Songs_WiccanRitual.html
The Calling, with the blue flame visualization, really is it for a simple circle casting.
The only tool needed is Knife/athame, or wand, or pointed finger.
Again, you can get fancier. And you're going to get better results the more intimate you are with the elements/elementals and the directions.
Any questions?
Frondly, Fern
Thursday, January 19, 2012
It's Elemental
Blessings Darlings!
Last fall, my life turned into a series of leaks. The car. The toilets. The refrigerator. The refrigerator at my MOTHERS when I went THERE. One damn water issue after another.
By the time of the leak at my Mothers, it was clear that elemental Water was trying to get my attention. I started daily water meditation (crystal bowl of water, sun or at least daylight reflecting in it), doing some stuff my High Priestess suggested, doing an Invoking Water pentagram with every cup of liquid I drank, etc.
I can't say that I got any specific deep messages from Elemental Water, but we have rather more of a relationship that we had 6 weeks ago. And the leaks have all been fixed and not returned.
A working relationship.
That type of relationship is what seems most important to me in magic. Being intimate enough to know you and the Elemental can can do communicate. Or the herb, or Spirit, or whatever.
Build those relationship, my fronds. Network. That network is often what tirns into your safety net later.
Frondly, Fern
Last fall, my life turned into a series of leaks. The car. The toilets. The refrigerator. The refrigerator at my MOTHERS when I went THERE. One damn water issue after another.
By the time of the leak at my Mothers, it was clear that elemental Water was trying to get my attention. I started daily water meditation (crystal bowl of water, sun or at least daylight reflecting in it), doing some stuff my High Priestess suggested, doing an Invoking Water pentagram with every cup of liquid I drank, etc.
I can't say that I got any specific deep messages from Elemental Water, but we have rather more of a relationship that we had 6 weeks ago. And the leaks have all been fixed and not returned.
A working relationship.
That type of relationship is what seems most important to me in magic. Being intimate enough to know you and the Elemental can can do communicate. Or the herb, or Spirit, or whatever.
Build those relationship, my fronds. Network. That network is often what tirns into your safety net later.
Frondly, Fern
Friday, September 9, 2011
Fire Protection
Blessings, Darlings!
Have you noticed that the Land, Sea, and Sky seem rather upset lately? In the US alone this year, we have had unusual winter cold in west Texas and New Mexico, spring floods, spring tornado sprees, summer droughts, unusual earth quakes in Louisiana and Colorado and Virginia/DC, unusually severe heat waves in lots of the country, fires in Texas, and now a couple of hurricanes causing severe flooding.
Most of the things line up well with global warming, and the fires include humans preventing smaller fires and letting available fuel for fires build up. The Earth quakes in Louisiana for sure, and maybe the one in Virginia, was directly related to fracking for petroleum/gas. In other words - most of this has roots in human actions and hubris.
Hubris.
Typically I'm down with pride and arrogance. I am a magic user, I hang with Mages. But I admit that I've screwed up magic and other things at times and so do the other magic users in my life. Well, most of them. But even the most arrogant are up front about magic being a hand grenade which can take out the user with shrapnel along with the intended target. Because magic is powerful. Still, none of the magic users I hang with think that the Elements are their bitches.
Apparently not all share these views. Over on FaceBook there's a group that's going to do weather magic for Texas. The two main forces in that group have written that they intend to make Tropical Storm Nate into a hurricane and move it into the affected parts of Texas, and that flooding and such are 'lesser evils' than drought and fire. I asked them about what the nature spirits, land spirits, and divination on this indicated. I pointed out that floods are more damaging to everything than fires, both in deaths, nature affected, economic destruction, toxins left everywhere.
Oh, look at the thread http://tinyurl.com/3qcoxfr , plus the link for flood and toxins and such http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44449393/ns/weather/ .
They want to make a hurricane their bitch, and the heck with how many people it kills, how much property it destroys (hint - it would end more human lives and destroy more property than fires will).
What magic would *I* use in a case like this? I'd start with the protection of fire insurance that covers wildfires. I'd add the insurance of evacuation. And then I'd do the magic of PROTECTION for people/pets/property. I'd work on becoming intimate with the local land there and the watershed before doing any work - for their spirits might not want the same thing that we humans want to impose on it.
The protection magic in this case would be among the easiest, when working with the local land spirits and elemental fire. Wild fires are already big on being arbitrary, burning one house and not touching the one next to it. That's a feature that magic can influence.
Existing feature. Magic can influence. Not making fire my bitch. But protection plus work with local land and the elementals earth, wind, water, and fire.. Not a working guaranteed to spread toxins across the land and into the watershed.
I'd not use the same hubris based approach that caused the problem in the first place.
Frondly, Fern
Have you noticed that the Land, Sea, and Sky seem rather upset lately? In the US alone this year, we have had unusual winter cold in west Texas and New Mexico, spring floods, spring tornado sprees, summer droughts, unusual earth quakes in Louisiana and Colorado and Virginia/DC, unusually severe heat waves in lots of the country, fires in Texas, and now a couple of hurricanes causing severe flooding.
Most of the things line up well with global warming, and the fires include humans preventing smaller fires and letting available fuel for fires build up. The Earth quakes in Louisiana for sure, and maybe the one in Virginia, was directly related to fracking for petroleum/gas. In other words - most of this has roots in human actions and hubris.
Hubris.
Typically I'm down with pride and arrogance. I am a magic user, I hang with Mages. But I admit that I've screwed up magic and other things at times and so do the other magic users in my life. Well, most of them. But even the most arrogant are up front about magic being a hand grenade which can take out the user with shrapnel along with the intended target. Because magic is powerful. Still, none of the magic users I hang with think that the Elements are their bitches.
Apparently not all share these views. Over on FaceBook there's a group that's going to do weather magic for Texas. The two main forces in that group have written that they intend to make Tropical Storm Nate into a hurricane and move it into the affected parts of Texas, and that flooding and such are 'lesser evils' than drought and fire. I asked them about what the nature spirits, land spirits, and divination on this indicated. I pointed out that floods are more damaging to everything than fires, both in deaths, nature affected, economic destruction, toxins left everywhere.
Oh, look at the thread http://tinyurl.com/3qcoxfr , plus the link for flood and toxins and such http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44449393/ns/weather/ .
They want to make a hurricane their bitch, and the heck with how many people it kills, how much property it destroys (hint - it would end more human lives and destroy more property than fires will).
What magic would *I* use in a case like this? I'd start with the protection of fire insurance that covers wildfires. I'd add the insurance of evacuation. And then I'd do the magic of PROTECTION for people/pets/property. I'd work on becoming intimate with the local land there and the watershed before doing any work - for their spirits might not want the same thing that we humans want to impose on it.
The protection magic in this case would be among the easiest, when working with the local land spirits and elemental fire. Wild fires are already big on being arbitrary, burning one house and not touching the one next to it. That's a feature that magic can influence.
Existing feature. Magic can influence. Not making fire my bitch. But protection plus work with local land and the elementals earth, wind, water, and fire.. Not a working guaranteed to spread toxins across the land and into the watershed.
I'd not use the same hubris based approach that caused the problem in the first place.
Frondly, Fern
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