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Review: The Wheel of the Year
This is a book about connecting to nature and all that you can find there. It is about connecting to nature’s cycles through the important pause points in the year: the quarter days and cross quarter days of Druids and Wiccans. Lees verder
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Review: Rounding the Wheel of the Year
An informative and inspiring book on customs, rituals, plant lore and more connected to different aspects of the year, arranged according to the calendar months rather than the familiar eight festivals.
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Review: Toil & Trouble
The occult was for many of the women portrayed a way to make money or gain influence. For others it was their chance for rebellion and causing changes. Lees verder
Review: Chaos Monk – Bringing Magical Creativity to the New Monastic Path
Expanding on the practices Steve talked about in ‘Chaos Craft’ he now delves much deeper. Via several exercises & techniques, he helps us to become equipped as a Monk, in the classic sense. Lees verder
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Getagged Chaos Craft, chaos magic, Illuminates of Thanateros, Monasticism
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Review: Otherwise Than the Binary
Challenging and engaging book on the binary, which is more than a matter of people and pronouns. Its origins are thought to go back to ancient culture, especially Plato – but can the ancient texts be read differently from how they used to be understood? Lees verder
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Getagged binary, classics, dualities, myth, philosophy
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Telling the Bees – a modern tradition with ancient roots
Beekeepers have since old times informed their hives of changes and important developments in their lives. This article sheds light on this tradition, and on the origins of beekeeping. Lees verder
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Getagged Apollo, Artemis, bee priestesses, bees, folklore, labrys, Melissa, Rudolf Steiner, Telling the bees
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Rites of Passage & the Wheel of Life – resacralising our relationship with Earth
Rites of passage are ceremonial or symbolic rituals that mark significant life transitions or milestones. What does (re)sacralising the earth have to do with the Wheel of the Year? Lees verder
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Getagged ancestral veneration, birth, blood rites, death, healing, initiation, magic, marriage, oaths, rites of passage, sacralisation, sacrifice, wheel of the year
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Review: The Green Witch
A green witch is someone who lives the green path and is aware of how the energy of nature flows through her life and environment. The book shows how to be a green witch, and gives recipes. Lees verder
Review: Pagans (Ethan Doyle White)
Evolving around pictures from many times and places, this book offers – literally – a view on many subjects that fall into the different types of ‘Paganism’. Compact but relating subjects from a wide range of origins. Lees verder
The Bahá’í Faith and Wicca – A Comparison of Relevance in Two Emerging Religions, Part 1- Overlapping Circles
The purpose of this paper is to make comparisons between the growth and potential for further development of the Bahá’í Faith and Wicca in Britain.
The paper begins by outlining the milieu in which both traditions began and notes possible overlaps of individuals and networks. It continues by contrasting motifs of beliefs and values between the two systems and investigates the history of both by arguing that relevance is the driving force in their respective development. Lees verder
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Getagged Bahá’í Faith, Bahaism, Dion Fortune, Gardnerian Wicca, Gerald Gardner, Margaret Murray, paganism, Theory of Relevance, Western occult tradition, Woodcraft Chivalry
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