One Twisted Pixie

Back to Normal Spell

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:52:10 -0400

If you’ve gone through a stressful period and you’re anxious for things to get back to normal, perform this spell. This ritual is based on an old Greek saying my mother used to say: “I was, I am, and I will be!” What this means is that you’re affirming your strength and you’ll stay on a steady path.

For this spell you’ll need two identical violet or purple candles.

Violet is a color associated with balance and is used to help realign energies. The candles may be scented, if you wish. Place the candles before a mirror and light them. Look at yourself intently in the mirror. Think of your situation and how you’ll return things to normal. Begin the chant:

“I was, I am, and I will be!”

Repeat the words as often as you wish. The transformation has begun.

Book Quotes

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:02:21 -0400

For some reason, people thought Wiccans had to be ‘Goth’ or ‘Emo’ or something. Like we’re bound to some kind of law that doesn’t allow us to have pet bunnies or paint our toenails pink or smell like something other than patchouli.

Spellbound (click the pic)

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:41 -0400

Spellbound (click the pic)

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Moon influenced Goddess, deep in my heart Descend Lovely Lady, come to our rites For magic I make on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:01:36 -0400

Moon influenced Goddess, deep in my heart
Descend Lovely Lady, come to our rites
For magic I make on this sacred night.
Green Man, Blessed by the Elements
Consort of the Silver Goddess
Keeper of the Days of Light and Warmth
We Honor thee with our words
We respect thee with our deeds
May we keep the Earth in her Glory
Respect all of Nature and all in thy Realm
Never give up on us, we beseech thee.
So Mote it Be

-author unknown-

The Witching Wand

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:08:00 -0400

Willow has a wild array of medicinal and magical powers. The tree of the Moon Goddess, willow has been favored by Witches for centuries, used to make magical wands and for witching or dowsing for water. Willow protects against evil and can avert danger. It aids healing, protection, and fertility spells and can enhance intuition and sacred knowledge. If asked nicely, willow will also grant wishes. While willow is growing rapidly, filled with excited water energy, harvest some for your own magical use. Sit under a willow tree and cast a protective circle. Meditate, connecting with willow energy, Moon Goddess intuition, and water-finding abilities. Ask for permission to remove an 18 to 36 inch tapering branch filled with witching magic. Holding the willow mindfully in both hands, chant:

“A witching wand for this Witch,
Finding water I am witch,
A magic wand for working good,
I am blessed by willow wood.”

elfentau: ~* Troll cross - The troll cross is an amulet made of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:34 -0400

elfentau:

~* Troll cross - The troll cross is an amulet made of a circle of iron crossed at the bottom (possibly in the shape of an odal rune), a charm worn by early Scandinavian peoples as a protection against trolls and elves. Iron and crosses were both believed to ward off evil creatures. *~

The Chalice Well, Glastonbury, England Also known as ‘The...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:02:54 -0400

The Chalice Well, Glastonbury, England

Also known as ‘The Well of Avalon’.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the well has been in almost constant use for at least two thousand years. Water issues from the spring at a rate of 25,000 gallons per day and has never failed, even during drought. The water is believed to possess healing qualities.

The Well is often portrayed as a symbol of the female aspect of deity, with the male symbolised by Glastonbury Tor. As such, it is a popular destination for pilgrims in search of the divine feminine, including Pagans. The Well is however popular with all faiths and in 2001 became a World Peace Garden.

Book Quotes

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:02:03 -0400

“Be true in love, this you must do, unless your love is false to you. With these words, the Rede fulfill: An it harm none, do what ye will.”

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The Living Wiccan: littlefaerylizzy: priestessintraining: littlefaerylizzy:...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:50:51 -0400

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littlefaerylizzy:

priestessintraining:

littlefaerylizzy:

catnip-gardens:

littlefaerylizzy:

Catnip Gardens: I was just at Walgreens waiting for a prescription to be filled, and…

catnip-gardens:

I was just at Walgreens waiting for a prescription to be filled, and decided to crack open Green Witchcraft by Ann Moura (again) to pass the time. A much older woman to my left saw the title and said “so you’re into witchcraft, are you?” I froze. I’m not very bold and I abhor confrontation, so…

You like Green Witchcraft? Let me give you some book suggestions >D

Kitchen & Green Witchery

Books:

Compendium of Herbal Magic by Paul V. Beyerl

Compendium of Symbolic and Ritual Plants in Europe

Earth Wisdomby Glennie Kindred

Farmer’s Almanac

Folk-lore of Plants by T.F. Thiselton Dyer

Green Mantle: An Investigation into Our Lost Knowledge of Plants by Michael Jordon

Green Witch Herbal: Restoring Nature’s Magic in Home, Health, and Beauty Care by Barbara Griggs

Hedgerow Cookbook by Glennie Kindred

Herbal Healers by Glennie Kindred

Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook: A Home Manual by James Green

Master Book of Herbalism

Mastering Herbalism by Paul Huson

Tree Medicine, Tree Magic by Glennie Kindred

Tree Wisdom by Jacqueline Memory Paterson

Websites:

Glennie Kindred

Botanical.com

Trees for Life

Plants for a Future

Articles:

“Age-Old Moon Gardening Growing in Popularity” -National Geographic

“Wildcrafting Medicinal Plants” by Ryan Drum

“Wildcrafting: A ‘simple’ life fraught with a host of complex ethical and practical considerations” by Bruce Buren

And Ann Moura’s book is typically described as a “Green NeoWicca” book and not true Green Witchcraft

Holy shit wow you’re like my best friend right now. I’m always looking for books like this. I devour them. Thank you so much.

ohohooho~ let me throw more books at ya! >D

Kitchen Witchcraft

Books:

A Taste of History: 10,000 Years of Food in Britain

Childhood Memories by Cora Anderson

Folklore and Odysseys of Food and Medicinal Plants

Food and Rites of Passage

Food and Vegetation Magic

Food in the Ancient World

Magic Harvest: Food Folklore and Society

Mead Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England

Origins of Festivals and Feasts

Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment

Cookbooks:

Celtic Folklore Cooking

A Finnish Christmas Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from the Old Country

The Scots Kitchen: Its Traditions and Lore (by the author of the Silver Bough – folklore on Scotland)

Articles:

“Green Witchcraft and Kitchen Witchery” by Melissa Crowe

Websites:

Rue’s Kitchen (Kitchen Witch and Stregoneria practitioner)

Acanthus Books (historical cookbooks and reference books)

Traditional Witchcraft

Books:

Traditional Witchcraft Book List

Group Websites:

TraditionalWitchcraft.net

Traditional Witchcraft Yahoo Group

Walking the Hedge

Resource Websites:

Apotropaios – British Folk Magic

Cornish Witchcraft

Hedgewytchery

House Shadow Drake

Traditional Cornish Witchcraft

Traditional Witchcraft Wiki

The Seer’s Reading List

The Witch’s Favourite Green Reads

The Witch’s Reading List

Reblogging for this awesome list of books. Lizzy is so great. :)

OOPS

The Grimoire Tradition – Witchcraft of New & Ancient Grimoires

Books:

Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (reprint of Davies’ Cunning-Folk)

A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in 19th Century Somerset

Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951

Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard

An Joan the Crone: The History and Craft of the Cornish Witch

Biddy Early: The Wise Woman of Clare – Meda Ryan

Cunning Folk And Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions In Early Modern British Witchcraft And Magic

Secrets of East Anglian Magic – Nigel Pennick

Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing

The Gaelic Otherworld

Witchcraft in England – Christina Hole

The Pickingill Papers: The Origin of the Gardnerian Craft

Websites:

CunningFolk.com

Cronnekdhu: Traditional Cornish Witchcraft

Cornish Witchcraft

Cassandra Latham – Village Wisewoman

Articles:

“The Fairy Doctor” – Lady Wilde

“Annual Visit of the West-Country Folks to the Pellar of Helston, to have their Protection Renewed” – William Bottrell, 1870

“The Pellar and Tom Treva’s Cows” – William Bottrell, 1870

“The Cunning Men of Essex” – by Sue Kendrick

“Cunning Folk of Cornwall” – by Gemma Gary

“Old Mother Red-Cap and the Cunners of Old”

“Cunning Folk” – Wikipedia

“Biddy Early: Seers and Healers” – Lady Gregory

“Cunning Murrell, A Study of a Nineteenth-Century Cunning Man in Hadleigh, Essex” – by Eric Maple, Folklore March 1960 (must have access to the JSTOR database to read)

Free Online Grimoires:

Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage

Emerald Tablet of Hermes

Key of Soloman the King (Clavicula Salomanis)

Petit Albert: The booke of secrets of Albertus Magnus of the virtues of herbes, stones, and certayne beatles

Philosophy of Natural Magic by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Pow-Wows or Long Lost Friend By John G. Hoffman

Sixth Book of Moses

Seventh Book of Moses

The Kybalion

The Magus by Francis Barrett

Grimoire Publishers:

Ajna Bound

Ars Obscura

Fulgur Ltd

IXAXAAR

Mandrake of Oxford

Mercurius Press

Midian Books (distributor)

Ouroboros Press

Scarlet Imprint

Three Hands Press

Treadwell’s Books (distributor)

XOANON

Books:

Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies

History of Magic by Eliphas Levi

Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires: The Classical Texts of Magick Deciphered by Aaron Leitch

Books:

Crossing the Borderlines: Guising, Masking, and Ritual Animal Disguises in the European Traditionby Nigel Pennick

Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magicby Emma Wilby

Hedge Rider: Witches of the Underworld by Eric De Vries

Hallucinogens and Shamanism by Michael Harner

How Do Witches Fly? A practical approach to nocturnal flights by Alexander Kuklin

Nine Worlds of Seid Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in Northern European Paganism by Jenny Blain

Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion by R. Gordon Wasson

R.J. Stewart Books

Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Dark Ages by Brian Bates

Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans by Robert J. Wallis

Websites:

Hedgewytchery

Articles:

Witches’ Ointments

“Drugs, Witches, and the Flight to the Sabbat” by Jeremy Harte

“Hedgecraft” by Draig Tiernan

“If Witches No Longer Fly: Today’s Pagans and Solanaceous Plants” by Chas S. Clifton (PDF)

“Seidr Magic” by Ed Richardson

Seidr & Norse Shamanism

“Return of the Völva: Recovering the Practice of Seidh”

http://www.freewebs.com/nonwiccanwitch/nonwiccanreadinglist.htm

It’s back!

stay true to you

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:02:37 -0400

stay true to you

On Becoming Pagan

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:53:53 -0400

I've been asked why I chose to become Pagan, but I don't feel that it was a choice. I found Paganism while trying to find a name for my beliefs. Essentially, I was Pagan before I knew what Pagan was. So, I'm curious... how many other Pagans agree with me. Do you feel you are Pagan by choice, or is it just who you are? (Obviously, there are no right or wrong answers to this question. We all found our paths through different circumstances. I'm just curious as to what other Pagans think on this.)

mokacahuete-animaux: *

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:01:42 -0400

mokacahuete-animaux:

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‘The Goddess Temples of Malta’. The island of Malta...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:09:42 -0400

‘The Goddess Temples of Malta’.

The island of Malta was inhabited in approximately 5200 BC, by a highly developed neolithic people. The great temples of Malta, are some of the oldest free standing structures known, and are part of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. The temples themselves date to about 3000 BC. There have been remains of about 50 temples on the island of Malta. In these temples, artifacts of pottery, bones, figurines of women and signs of fire have been discovered. At some point, it is said that red ochre covered some of the walls in these temples. The well known “Sleeping Goddess of Malta” figure, was found in the temple Hal Saflien. It is also said, that at the Mnajdra temple complex, some of the stones are aligned with the sunrise on the winter and summer solstices , and also the spring and autumn equinoxes.

A Home for Inspiration

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:03:09 -0400

Today is International Museum Day. The world museum originally meant “the seat of the Muses,” a home for inspiration.

Today, why not create an altar or space in your home that inspires you?

Create a physical altar by cutting out (or printing) images that inspire you and arranging them in a pleasing way. You could attach them to a piece of poster board, a bulletin board, or your wall. Include words, symbols, and colors that connect the images or remind you of your major creative goals, such as the image of a pencil or the words “I love writing.”

You can also create a digital version by collecting online images and using them in a screensaver program or as a rotating desktop image. This can be a great way to keep some inspiration in your life during the workday - just pick images that fit your workplace culture.

Yellow Birch, Adirondacks On the trail to Goodnow Mountain, a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:02:48 -0400

Yellow Birch, Adirondacks

On the trail to Goodnow Mountain, a yellow birch appears to be ingesting a boulder left behind by a glacier. Tenacious trees and rebounding wildlife at Adirondack Park.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 20:01:25 -0400

Green Man Invocation

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:00 -0400

The abundant green growth of spring is all around. Take time today to walk in the woods and give praise to Pan, Greek god of the woodlands, fertility, wild animals, music, nature spirits, and dance. If you live in a city, find a park where you can safely walk. If you live in the country, go to a favorite spot. Slow down enough to notice the abundant springing of life and, marveling in it, commune with the Green Man of spring:

“In the riot of spring’s wild surge,
We summon Pan with these words.
Horned god, dance throughout the trees,
Summon the beasts, and command the bees.
Sprouts and shoots, plants and vines,
Green magic energy now entwines.
Play your pipes and celebrate,
Great Pan, we invoke you on this date.”

Later, as you walk toward your home, hum or sing and spread the spirit of Pan throughout the land.