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| April 26, 2012
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Casting a Circle with no tools

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Although there are many books on how to cast a circle, each version will require tools or Paraphernalia to complete the task. I often feel that the way many books describe casting a circle can be off putting to the beginner or the lone practitioner. The fact of the matter is that you don’t need any special powers or tools. To be able to create a circle on the fly is a very handy skill to have. There are many times where you just don’t have the time or are in the correct circumstance to create a full circle. Using your hands or a finger to replace the Athame or Wand is one of the most simple ways of casting a circle with out any tools. The method i am going explain requires no movement and can be preformed in any situation including in the middle of a shopping centre. Casting a circle in this manor can be done without the knowledge of anyone and is very useful to sheild against unwanted energies. Once you have mastered this technique you can cast a circle at a moments notice. Firstly you will need to find your centre this is normal around the solar plexus chakra although it will take some practice to locate your personal centre. Start by rhythmic breathing (in through nose the out from mouth). Once you are aware of your centre remember it you will need to recall it when ever you cast a circle. Now start to visualise a small ball about

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| April 26, 2012
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Tarot Love Spell

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Items: Star Tarot Card – Lovers Tarot Card – King or Queen of Cups Tarot Card (choose the Tarot Card that corresponds to the gener your seeking) Ritual: Layout the Star Tarot Card and visualize the floodgates opening and all obstacles that have kept you and your soul mate apart being removed – you should feel a sense of relief as you lay down the card. Next lay down the chosen court cups card Tarot Card and visualize everything you want in your perfect soul mate – try to think of personality traits as well as physical traits. They’re hair, their laugh, and sense of humour, affection given and received and so on. As you lay the card down and you are done visualizing, say these words: “I call upon all good spirits, call upon all karmic forces, I call upon wide ruling powers. Make smooth the way that may love may be brought to me!” Lay down the lovers card Tarot Card and say these words: “As I lay this final card – the spell is cast the magick shall last -so be it. Cyber Cauldron Shop Ritual Herbs For Spell Work Nefertaris Tarot £29.95 Secret Tarot £19.00 Tarot of the Mermaids £19.99 The Druid Craft Tarot £19.99 Gay Tarot £19.00 The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck £13.00 Arthurian Tarot By John & Caitlin Matthews £11.19 Mystic Dreamer Tarot Cards & Book £29.97 Sensual Wicca Tarot £17.99 Radiant Rider Waite Tarot Card Deck £19.00 Copyright protected by Digiprove © 2010 Cyber Caulron Related articles by

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| April 26, 2012
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Dark moon and Dark Magick ritual

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Timing Dark moon Designed for solitary witch Equipment 1 black candle, photo of close lost love one, lighter / matches Beginning of ritual;- Light black candle Turn off all lights and draw curtains Cast a simple working space but do not call element or guardians (*) Incantation Hidden from view, shielded from lies. In darkness truth leys. Dark mother, Teaching Mother Teach me. Show me I have felt lose. I have felt shame and I have felt pain. It was you who showed me these. Now I am ready to look again. Open my eyes and heart to your message. Take the picture of the lost love one and remember them alive good and bad times and when ready snuff out candle and say I sit in darkness as I first did at your lose let me see the madness I descended into, let me understand the pain that I felt let me see the fears for what they are, let me see my actions and the mistakes I made. In silent meditation think of how this lose effected you explore the feeling you felt, try to view it like a movie playing back the important part, connect with the feelings (**), check to see what symbols are visible in this recreation take mental note so you can write them up later.(***) End with incantation Hecate Dark Mother, I am stuck at the cross road lost it what is what was and what could be help be back to the correct path. Kali Dark Mother,

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| April 26, 2012
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Binding Runes and Sigils for Talismans

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For those of you that do a lot of talisman work you will know about creating bind runes but for those new to the subject I’ll cover some of the basics. Each rune has an equivalent letter in the modern alphabet, which can be used to spell out words example below spells Draco although the C has been replaced with a K due to the fact that C is not represented in my runes. To make this word in to a bind rune you would place each rune on top of each other to create a unique personal rune. (as Below) Another way of making rune talisman is to create a sigil – sig·il (sjl, sgl) n. 1. A seal; a signet. 2. A sign or an image considered magical The basic idea behind a sigil is that the original idea is trap until release so the original idea should be forgot before releasing, so you need a way of encoding the sigil with the desired information. Random patterns are often used in creating a sigil so there meanings remain unknown to others. For those that wish to use runes in talismans the bind rune is often used but there is another way of encoding a sigil using runes with out showing them. So how do you use a rune without using a rune? well you use it position. Runes are made up of three Aett’s the first row Heimdal’s aett the second Tiw’s aett and the final Aett Grimnirs aett each Aett or row

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| April 26, 2012
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For 2012 I pledge-ritual

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A simple ritual for New Years Eve, this ritual is designed so you can add extra elements to make it personal. The ritual it’s self is based on a pledge (resolutions) of the things you wish to achieve you will notice that the open of the circle has been changed from the common format that many will use but the unwinding of the circle reinforces the idea of change. I have provided this ritual in several different versions for download, as the pledge should be committed to the element of Fire to activate. Word version download PDF text version download. Image version download JPG PDF image version download Ritual Below   I known as ___________ to you my Goddess  ___________ and to you my God __________ pay notice to this pledge, as I will need you to aid me. To the East I call the ever-living Air the voice of the divine in elemental form! Come witness. To the South I call the ever-powerful Fire the desire of the divine creative and destructive in elemental form. To the West I call the ever-fulfilling Water cleansing and purifying the divine in elemental form. To the North I call the ever-stabile Earth secure and eternal the divine in elemental form. Now I add spirit thine own to seal this space of divine works. Welcome my Goddess __________ and My God ______ I have invited you here to bare witness and fill me with the strength to complete the things on this list. In 2012, I wish to

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| April 26, 2012
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You Might be Giving Pagans a Bad Name If

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You Might be Giving Pagans a Bad Name If… You insist that your boss call you “Rowan Starchild” because otherwise you’d sue for religious harassment. (Score double for this if you don’t let that patronizing dastard call you “Mr. or Ms. Starchild.”) You request Samhain, Beltaine, and Yule off and then gripe about working Christmas. You expect your employer to exempt you from the random drug testing because of your religion. You think the number of Wiccan books you own is far more important than the number you have read, regardless of the fact that most of your books are for beginners. You’ve won an argument by referencing “Drawing Down the Moon,” knowing darned good and well they haven’t read it either. You said it was bigotry when they didn’t let you do that ritual in front of city hall. It had nothing to do with the skyclad bit. You picketed The Craft and Hocus Pocus, but thought that the losers who picketed The Last Temptation of Christ needed to get lives. You’ve ever had to go along with someone’s ludicrous story because it was twice as likely to be true than most of the nonsense you spout. You complain about how much the Native Americans copied from Eclectic Wiccan Rites. You’ve ever referenced the Great Rite in a pick-up line. Someone has had to point out to you that you do not enter a circle “in perfect love and perfect lust.” (Score double if you argued the point.) You claim yourself as a witch

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| April 26, 2012
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The Goddess Lesson Three

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In lesson three we are going to cover the Goddess. If we can all agree on one basic statement during this section it will help in our understanding of the Goddess. Statement:- The Goddess is the female aspect, energy of the “Divine” in manifest or archetypal form in which we find understanding. The goddess is equal to the male aspect whether as opponent, reflection or opposite and no matter how we envisage the goddess “She” does exist. During this lesson I am not looking to change your view it’s designed to give you a broader view of the goddess. Throughout history the role of the Goddess has changed from the Great mother to a consult, betrayer and even demon. She has been portrayed in single form, triple form and part of pantheons. She has been given roles from creator to the great destroyer. The Goddess has many archetypal forms and just as many names. Now certain paths and religions either pay more attention to the goddess reducing the god aspect or pay more attention to the god aspect reducing the goddess role. Christianity (old and new testaments) has reduced the goddess in its belief structure to the lowest form of woman the betrayer, the slut, the murder, the demon with the highest accolades be the virgin mother (a title reduced from the original God barer which was thought to be wrong as this would make a woman the creator of gods) or a Saint Martyred for her beliefs. Wicca on the other hand has place

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| April 26, 2012
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Get more Mojo on

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Probably one of the simplest and most widely used tools within magicks is the charm bags, Mojo bag, amulet Bag, gris-gris bag, medicine bag etc. Charm bags exist in nearly every culture and country around the world. The uses of charm bags are limitless. They are extremely simple to construct a magical ingredients are placed in a cloth or small container which is then either worn or placed in a place which is deemed appropriate sometimes they are a hung from doors, wall or windows. Some of the ingredients in a charm, bag include botanicals, bones, beads, small amulets, crystals, Stones, metal, and even graveyard dust or other depending on its purpose is. He’s really made from cloth that including felt and leather, fabric pouch is then filled with the ingredients climbed steadily, and sometimes placed in a larger bag or container. Some of the containers can be elaborately decorated with carvings and precious gems. The word Mojo refers to powers being admitted from the container and because the bag may be opened or closed ingredients can be added or removed as desired. It is traditional to feed your Mojo or charm bag and with magical powders or even alcohol at least once a week to ensure that the energy does not dissipate or die. Although the is found worldwide, some of the most sophisticated and creative and extremely powerful, charm bags originate from African cultures. And this charm bag are often red in colour and close to the drawstring, although the colour will depend

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| April 26, 2012
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The Summer Solstice

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Litha, which means to stand still or stopping, is the name given to the pagan Mid summer ritual. The Summer solstice which happens around the 21st / 22nd of June depending on the position of the sun. As pagans we celebrate the summer solstice as part of the wheel of the year and their some slight differences in the symbology. Some pagans see the summer solstice as the time where the Goddess took over the earth from the horned God at the beginning of spring and she is now at the height of her power and fertility. For some Pagans the Summer Solstice marks the marriage of the God and Goddess and sees their union as the force that creates the harvest’s fruits. For me it the time when the god and goddess of the light half of the year are at their most fertile and radiate life. The God is at his peek but from this point forward he will weaken until he is final defeated and killed by the god of the dark half of the year and is reborn in mid winter. For me this time of year is about balance and enjoying the best times while you have them it is also it a big reminder that nothing will last forever. This is a time to celebrate growth and life for Pagans, who see balance in the world and are deeply aware of the ongoing shifting of the seasons it is also time to acknowledge that the sun will now begin

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| April 26, 2012
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Calling the Quarters

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The quarters or watchtowers are called to attend and protect Wiccan and some other pagan paths, rituals and circles. Each of the quarters represents an element Earth, Air, Fire and water. These elements are often assigned to a compass point the most common version is Earth – North, Air – East, Fire – South and Water – West. Although the most common version of the quarters is used in most Wiccan groups there are slight variations there can be wider variations for the solitary practitioner as they attune themselves to a location and not a group, example if a witch can see the see the sea from his or her north facing window, mountains in the west it would be very logical for the witch to place the Water quarter in the north and the earth in the west leaving air and fire where they are. Wherever you place the quarters or watch towers you will need to invoke in the correct way. or the way I was taught, was to visualise the guardian of the watchtower or quarter coming in to form and substance as you chant the an incantation which is used to invite the guardian to stand guard and protect the circle as well as adding the energy to the ritual. The Guardian is then held in place with the corresponding invoking pentagram (see below).   Once the ritual is complete the elements and Guardians are released with the banishing pentagram with a thank you for attending. In Wicca, the invocation of

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