http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk Where Magick come to life Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/the-wheel-of-the-year http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/the-wheel-of-the-year#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:32:58 +0000 admin http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/?p=211 The Wheel of the year is basically a calendar of the 8 festivals called Sabbats celebrated by Wiccan’s and some other pagan paths. The wheel looks like a cartwheel with 8 spokes marking the sections of the year. The wheel is in 2 sections the first is the Quarters know as “the lesser Sabbats” or “quarter days”, these quarters mark the movement of the sun through the year with the vertical spokes marking the solstices and the horizontal spokes marking the equinoxes The second section represents the cross quarters “cross-quarter days,” “fire festivals,” or “Greater Sabbats”, these are a mix of Gaelic and Germanic festival but basically or from my understanding the cross quarters are the cycles of life and death. The truth be told the Wiccan Wheel of the Year as been made up and in fact at the very starting of Wicca only the Cross quarters where celebrated online pharmacy without prescription it was the Bricket Wood Coven that added the quarter days basically because the wanted more meeting They did this while Gerald Gardner was away although he did not object to the additions as this brought Wicca closer to Gardner’s Long time friend Ross Nichols’s Neo druidism groups the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Although this Wheel has no historical value in terms of reclaiming the Craft it is a valued addition to Wicca and in other pagan paths. For me the wheel is a great source of meditation, understanding of life and death, a reminder of the cycles in]]> http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/the-wheel-of-the-year/feed 1 http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/seax-wica http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/seax-wica#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:37:44 +0000 admin http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/?p=587 Another relative new be to the neo paganism created / founded by the Gardnerian High priest Raymond Buckland after his move to the united states in the 1970s. Seax-Wica is one of the more open pagan practices based on historical Anglo-Saxon paganism but does not claim to be a re-creation of any historical religion it is one of a very few witchcraft traditions that has been crafted for others to use as solitary practitioners or as a coven. The tradition is based on the Germanic deities fused with Wiccan deities Woden is the Horned god and Freya as Mother Goddess. The ritual and rites are publicly available although their first publication expected the reader to have some knowledge of Wicca and or witchcraft and was not design for the solitary practitioner or the beginner. But due to it openness and it willingness to show it self as a respected path within the pagan community it gave all the information needed to follow and practice Seax-Wica. Buckland in 1986 released the in my mind the ultimate beginners guide to witchcraft (known as the “big blue” and “The big blue book”) Buckland’s complete book of witchcraft copies of which can now be download off the net (bucklands_complete_book_of_witchcraft but no substitute for real book (*)) which I suggest that you view and if interested please show author the honour for his good work and buy the book. I read the complete book of witchcraft when I was 15 years old and to this day I would hold it]]> http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/seax-wica/feed 2 http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/the-history-of-witchcraft-for-cave-man-to-modern-day http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/the-history-of-witchcraft-for-cave-man-to-modern-day#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:37:12 +0000 admin http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/?p=2483 Before really getting into what Witchcraft is, perhaps we should take a look back at what it was—the history of it. Witches should be aware of their roots; aware of how and why the persecutions came about, for instance, and where and when the re-emergence took place. There is a great deal to be learned from the past. It’s true that much of history can seem dry and boring to many of us, but that is far from so with the history of Witchcraft. It is very much alive and filled with excitement. There have been many books written on the history of Witchcraft. The vast majority have suffered from bias—as will be explained shortly— but a few of the more recently published ones have told the story accurately… or as accurately as we can determine. The late Dr. Margaret Murray traced back and saw Witchcraft’s origins in Paleolithic times; 25,000 years ago. She saw it as a more or less unbroken line through to the present, and as a fully organized religion throughout Western Europe for centuries before Christianity. Recently scholars have disputed much of what Murray said. She did, however, present some tangible evidence and much thought-provoking material. As a probable development of religious-magick (rather than Witchcraft, per se), her theories are still respected. Twenty-five thousand years ago Paleolithic Wo/Man depended upon hunting to survive. Only by success in the hunt could there be food to eat, skins for warmth and shelter, bones to fashion into tools and weapons. In those days Wo/Man]]> http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/the-history-of-witchcraft-for-cave-man-to-modern-day/feed 0 http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/triquetra-and-it-history-and-uses http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/triquetra-and-it-history-and-uses#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:34:45 +0000 admin http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/?p=956 Originally Triquetra means triangle and was used to describe any 3 cornered shape although it is used to identify a particular shape or pattern, three vesicae piscis*, equally spaced with own internal or external circle . The Triquetra is an ancient symbol used in Germanic neopaganism and Celtic knotwork and early Christianity. In Germanic neopaganism, the symbol can be found carved on Rune stones or adorning the Mjöllnir / Thors Hammer and is similar to the Valknut three interlocking triangles associated with the God Odin. In Celtic knotwork It appears to have Christian links and is used to denote a person in triplicate or threefold. It is used heavily in Christianity to denote their father son and Holy Ghost (holy spirit). The Christian holy Trinity. The Triquetra has been adopted by neopagan groups and Celtic Reconstructionist pagans, although the meaning behind the symbol differs. The idea of triplicate or threefold remains constant in some pagan groups will see the Triquetra as the goddess and her triple aspects of maiden, mother and crone. While some see as the divisions in the realms Earth sea and sky, or heavens Earth and underworld. The Triquetra is a common symbol, and one of the simplest Celtic knots and can be found almost everywhere in the forms of earrings and pendants carvings in woodwork printed on fabrics and books, and it almost every single church that you come across as anything other architecture. The TV series charmed, helps increase the popularity of the Triquetra due to the fact that the]]> http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/triquetra-and-it-history-and-uses/feed 0