Archive for Personal musing

The Problem is faith

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As humans we have a need to be correct, sure of our action and when we doubt our actions, we lash out, when we are too sure we defend our beliefs to sometimes to the extreme. It is part of our nature to fight and survive. We need conflict to keep the animal side feed. Although our spiritual side seeks peace, it has to strive for it. We are such complex creatures in constant battle to survive and achieve success and peace. Many people find peace through religion and there are some that treat it as a vocation and there are some who through study find new understandings. Now sometimes these new understandings lead to shared understanding other time they cause conflict. It history these conflict have spawned new groups and religious ideals and bloodshed. This conflict arise over one statement “I am right you are wrong” however it is expressed. This stubbornness to accept change is created out of fear that they may have been wrong. The idea that their belief / faith is wrong, is unfathomable. This is not always a bad thing someone else refusal to accept your findings can give you the faith to prove it or learn you are wrong. Now as a pagan I have worked in groups and lead group and conflict does arise occasionally sometimes leading to forced hive off or circle closing etc these are not bad things they are the natural progression of magicks and new and existing path develop. Elders of any religious group

Losing sight of the path

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A solitary pagan path can be one of the most difficult paths to follow and you can often find yourself with out warning resting along the way. As with all things in a pagans life it all about the ebbs and flows the circle of the year. With this there come your own natural ebbs and flows there are times when everything flows perfect your home life, work life and health all seem to be working in perfect harmony and your spiritual life just fits in perfectly. But there are times when one or more of these life aspects fall out of harmony sometime causing major problems with your life and your health. When these aspects fall out of balance that happen for a reason. They cause us to spend more time focusing on our lives in greater detail. These times can affect us greatly and our spiritual selves can take a back seat or we can over rely on them to see us through. When we are in a group our group members can help support us, or offer advice cast spells to assist us, ritual can be created to help us. But the solitary does not have that luxury – the solitary is never truly alone thou they do have friends in the craft that will do workings for them and support them. The solitary witch or pagan has chosen a path which relies of a personal understanding of the divine and their place within the structure life, the universe and they understand

Energy Vampires

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The energy vampire is someone who draws psychic or spiritual energy from another life force with out replacing it with like energy. Over the years I have found that there seem to be 3 may be 4 types of energy vampire. The first and most common type of energy vampire in what I like to call the immature energy vampire, the second is the controller energy vampire and the third is a feeder and if there is a forth kind it seems to be a hybrid of these three. The immature energy vampire is completely oblivious that they are feeding off of your energy in this category you will find children, those suffering illness (physical and mental), the Star (a person how is a diva who needs people to praise him or her) and the party animal (always on the go the one that is still raving a 4am while everyone else is lagging). The immature energy vampires are not bad (in the sense of good and bad) although they are demanding they need you to offer your energy before they can start to draw off your energy. The problem is the immature likes energy and is really not bothered if the energy is negative or positive just as long has they have your attention. The good thing is that these vampires will often share your energy and return some back. Since the goal of this vampire is to charge himself or herself up, they often have an abundance of excess energy, which they use

Creating coven ethics

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Starting any coven can be a difficult thing for any pagan but for the true eclectic it can be very difficult. The reason for this is an eclectic understands that things that should not work together do! Having mixed mythologies and practices are personal so it can be difficult to explain to others the significance, this is one of the main reasons the eclectic remains solitary. Although over the years I have run eclectic covens, which are more like working groups and moots which developed. I have found that when these groups meet and connect and share information the group dynamic changes from a coven that meets for worship or feasting to a group where practices merge and learning is shared in an inclusive enviroment. These covens does not work like a Wiccan coven there is no high priestess or priest no elder keeping things in check it works more as a council where the leader for next meeting is chosen leaders would be chosen in rota new members being added to the list. Whoever is in charge for that meeting chooses the topic of discussion they will either give a talk or write a ritual that includes everyone. For the main Sabbats (and not all paths follow the Wiccan wheel of the year so some groups have other main rites added to the wheel.) meeting are normally a few days before or after the event to allow member to have their own personal rites. These Sabbat meetings would normally follow a simple outline a

Its not Faith Its knowing

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For myself and I will assume many other pagans Faith is not something we have in life like most religious people, we do not live our life believing that some supernatural all power being is guiding our destiny. We know that we are the Masters and Mistress of our own lives our choices are our own and we take that responsibility square on and face what is coming to us. We seek guidance from our gods and goddess, which can come in the form of ideas, dreams, symbols, visions and advice from friends, which we are left to interpret. All pagans have their fears and doubts we are not immune to human emotions we just have learned to listen to the quite voice inside that says that you’re on the right path and many of us have learnt a lesson or 2 by ignoring it. This inner voice is often called a conscious, intuition, the inner voice and subconscious. I prefer to call it intuition since someone describes intuition as the Inner Tutor. Communicating with the inner tutor happens as part of the normal psychological behaviour of us humans. It can be an inner monologue with oneself, a dialogue with your higher self or even instinct (Gut Instinct). But we are all capable of doing it and many do it at time when they need guidance. For me I believe that we are three in one like the goddess and god, a physical form (our bodies) a spiritual form (astral self / higher self /

Cyber Circle Causes Energy Vortex

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Our homes are sacred spaces too, just as we use the guardians, watchtowers or elements to protect our circles many witches and pagans will use wards to protect their homes. These wards are used to protect from outside forces but the problem with this is that in this modern time of electronics and closer social connections and communication we end up inviting so much negativity into our homes and make it welcome negating any protection our wards could provide. As a witch I am very attuned to the energy of my home may be more so then some as I write from home spend nearly everyday of the week sitting at my desk or I move 3 feet and sit on the sofa my whole world is contained inside my home (BTW I do go out shopping or to eat or spend time with friends). I have always insured my home as a positive flow of energy not sure if it feng shui but I know what feels right and I have often had friends remark about how welcoming and relaxed my home is. Now I know that since I am very in tune with my environment my environment is also in tune with me so when I get hacked off or sad or ill or any negative emotions my home takes on that energy. Once my mood has change and positivist begins to flow once more. Now I am not the sort of person who likes clean line and everything in it place I

Dealing with negative thoughts

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Now no matter what path or belief the one thing we must accept is that we are human beings and with that comes emotions. And with all things in life their is a balance some people will say that there are positive and negative emotion I would prefer to say that emotions are neutral and it is how we deal with them makes them positive or negative. Now like any normal person I have my range of emotion from love to hate and Joy and sadness as well as some less than desirable ones like jealousy, envy but how do I deal with these emotions. Well the first thing is to notice them and evaluate them ask yourself why do I feel this way or that way? I accept the fact that I have negative feelings and look for the reason within myself for feeling them. Now I have found that many of, it not all my negative emotions are born out of fear. These fears can be little or big but they have to be dealt with some may be defeated some may just be driven back into the darkness to arise again and again but each time they become weaker until they are truly defeated. So how do you deal with negative emotions? The first thing is to notice when you are having one, now negative emotions do show them self in though. Now I am going to use a very common emotion envy, now we have all walked past a person that

The Blue witch

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As a witch most of my time is spent helping others, now we all know that we can pick up negative energies but we also have to deal with the rule of three and even with the best intent some harm is created. By assisting another to heal we prevent them from suffering, and sometime by not allowing another to suffer and find the solution through personal development, we rob them of a very precious gift. In the great scheme of thing the damage we do in very minimal and the backlash barely affect us if at all. But for some of us that backlash builds and explodes which can shake our lives to the very core. Now these explosions either manifest in the real world as periods of bad luck or ill fortune or can affect the physical self and result in illness. This illness is normally a recurring complaint such as a back pain or Psoriasis or even depression or other mental health issues. Now as witches our health is very important to us because we use our own energies to raise and direct energies to our will, so when we are unwell our energies are difficult to control making spiritual practice almost impossible. This can lead to feelings of failure, which can be very disheartening so we try harder to be spiritual which only leads us deeper down the path to failure. For some it like the mother has taken our toys away and is punishing us for something we have done.

Change and the world today

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I must say that I think I am turning in to grumpy old man I look out on to the world and the beauty and wonder I saw as a child has been mired by the horrors we have created. Know I am not just talking about the wars and conflicts since they where their before I was born and will continue way past my death. I am talking about human behaviour it one of the reason I moved away from city life and decided to live in the countryside. Now I have not always be a good boy I have done some wrong in my life like many others I am not perfect but through my path and communion with the Goddess I have come to live a life that I can be proud of. I face my daily woes like everyone else lack of money, rising prices, stress, illness, social isolation, not matter what I smile and continue through them knowing even in my darkest of days a ray of light will guide me through them. I know that I have the power with the will of the Gods to change any aspect of my life but I cannot change the world. It is only as one voice can we bring change to the world as a whole. When we unite in one voice and towards one goal will change on a global scale will happen. But where to start… now that the biggest question do we work towards stopping war and conflict

Rede Of the eclectic witch

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I am the one that stands alone. Between the breath and the stone. Casting circles of the mind. Summoning elements far and wide. In dreams and thought I summon thee. With heat and passion shall it be. Waves of emotions set it free. To the earth so mote it be. I now wrap in spirit bow. Till divinity in mortal form do show.   My voice  do speak hearts desire. Setting wish unto fire. Using air to inspire. With water blessing increase desire. With earth I mould this spell to fix. The spell of a witch will now transfix. In spiral movements I set free. Now let the magick come to be Set away to do its job. No undeserving shall it cheat. Or rule of 3 shall complete.   When one is done and it time fun. You will know the magicks done. And time will tell and you return to one! With voice unsung. Call them back one by one. And your circle shall be undone. Return to mortal space Regaining your normal pace Wrapped in divine grace Completed magicks with out losing grace   Draco )o( /|\ Related articles Magic, Witchcraft, Wicca – A Brief Overview (cybercauldron.co.uk) Whyte Witch Witchcraft Secrets Review (cybercauldron.co.uk) Wiccan Ethics And The Wiccan Rede (cybercauldron.co.uk) Cyber Cauldron facebook code of ethics (cybercauldron.co.uk) Witch bottle (cybercauldron.co.uk) Group Ethics (cybercauldron.co.uk)