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One of my favourite Chants is a chant that I heard off a film many years ago called the Charm of Making, now for whatever reason has remained part of my book of shadows as a chant to raise energies till this day.

Part of the reason for the charm of making remains is because it feels authentic. The Charm of making appears in the film Excalibur and is composed in Old Irish by Michael Everson a linguist of high standing.

Although the charm has been rumoured to be an ancient Celtic Charm, or Gaelic Charm or even an ancient Welsh Druid spell none of these rumours have any historical or academic evident that cant be disrepute with ease.

If we just accept that The Charm of Making is a well crafted set of words written in Old Irish to portray magickal intent on screen does not remove the power that these words have:-

The Words – The Charm of Making

Just by saying the words a few times over you can already feel the energies build (or well at least I can) as you do with any chant or Charm.

Their many be many Neo pagans who might fill that grabbing a few words off of a movie and putting in a book of shadows and using them in ritual would be wrong as they have no place being their as the made up and rubbish. But many more agree with me words only have power as long as you give them power and the more power you give them the stronger they get.

Taking words from a film script or play scripts are nothing new, Eko! Eko! Azarak! Eko! Eko! Zomelak! Come from the text from the play Le Miracle de Théophile according to Pennethorne Hughes who is a professional historian and student of witchcraft. But it does seem that we are much happier to copy spells, charms and chants down from written source the older and dustier the better than to dictate something from a visual media such as a play or film. Probably because when you watch a film you never seem to have a pen handy.

I do personally feel that not all films spells and chants can be used effectively “ you could never find a use for “Salicadoola, Menchicaboola, Bippity Boppity Boo!”” but film spells Mystical charms and chants they can be a good source of inspiration to help you develop your own spell incantations and charms and chants. They can help with timing and with just a few changes to the original text you can have a truly unique spell or chant, which is personal and has a very familiar feel and should be very effective.

Remember in life and not just in magicks “It’s not what you say! That counts; it’s how you say it! That matters!”

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Now we can all hear the world screaming at the moment as we move into another age and every time someone mentions how bad the world is I hear their hearty felt calls for peace.

Now I claim no mystic insight but when I was born my father a Jew looked at me and said he’s been here before and he always reminds me of the wisdom I hold now I know that I have lived on this realm before things are so familiar. I know in my heart where we going as a species and I am often saddened that we have failed to reach our potential.

I also know that there are souls as old as mine carving a path through this world as well as older and much wiser souls exist sharing information to younger souls in mediums in formats they can understand.

Now the formats that older souls use to communicate depend on the social and economical developments of the time. During our history we have used the spoken word to pass information on but verbal communication is open to the effect of Chinese whispers (the original message is distorted by person to person).

But as we have grown the way wisdom is communicated has change too sometimes it comes in a sentence in a film or TV series that cause us to think in a new way. For others it the written word that one book that changes our life for the better or at the very least helps us find a new way…

Now one such book was the Celestine Prophecies it contained none insights a sort of map to the divine (it agreed it was incomplete so came up with the 10th,11th 12th etc insight) although a book of fiction held some great wisdom. Now the Celestine Prophecies is fiction but with all fiction it has some roots in fact so good fiction should hold the reader in a state where they are balanced between what is real or could be and what is made up.

Now when I first read and then saw the film of the Celestine Prophecies I new a greater truth was hidden and now we face a new age I feel that its time to remind ourselves of the insights.

If you have not read or seen it’s a must it does help you to develop.

The insights

1. The awareness begins with a feeling of restlessness – an inner urging to find more meaning in life. As we respond to this inner prompting we begin to notice the “chance coincidences” – strange synchronistic events in our life. We begin to realize that some underlying process is operating our life.
2. We take a look at the evolution of consciousness (thought) of humankind, and we begin to see everything in a larger prospective. We become conscious of our preoccupation with the material world and begin to seek a deeper meaning and purpose to our lives.
3. We begin to see our connectedness. We become aware of the subtle energy that infuses all things and the relationship we have with that energy. By consciously becoming co-creators and choosing what we think we can have a positive effect on our world.
4. We unconsciously compete for energy from other people and this competition underlies all conflicts. As we begin to become aware of these power struggles, we learn that there is, in Reality, no lack of energy – there is another Greater Source of endless energy.
5. The key to overcoming conflict is tapping into the Greater Source through the mystical experience. In this experience we sense our connectednss and oneness with everything. This experience is available to everyone, as we allow ourselves to be filled with a sense of love.
6. Childhood traumas block our ability to fully experience the mystical. All of us carry wounding and false messages from our past. As we get in touch with our own personal control issues we can begin healing the blocks of our past and transcending them.
7. Once cleared of our past traumas, we can build energy through contemplation and meditation. As we focus on our basic life question, we receive the guidance we need through intuition, dreams, and synchronistic connections that guide us in the direction of our own evolution and transformation.
8. Evolution can’t be done alone, so practice uplifting those who cross your path. We are here to support and teach each other. Release addictive relationships, and integrate and embrace all parts of yourself, so that you become a whole person.
9. Our purpose here is to evolve consciously. As our planet evolves through greater technology we are freed up to spend more time to evolve spiritually. As we spend more time connecting with our Higher Source we experience a higher vibratory energy which nurtures ourselves, each other, and our planet. We eventually connect with God’s energy in such a way that we become beings of light and the kingdom of heaven is manifested here on earth.

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The year 2000, the new millennium, the bright new age of enlightenment, all brought a massive up-surge of information on all things Pagan, books by the score, mail order companies, distance learning courses, classes, and people claiming direct descent from ancient witches /druids /shamans etc.

The media always so fast to demonise anything pagan, had a field day! People from all walks of life flocked to paganism, and our numbers rocketed. A bright new era of inter-faith understanding happened over-night and we all lived happily ever after! But hang on!

True, with pagans now afforded legal rights as people of other faiths are, there has been progress – and I am sincerely, respectfully grateful to all those who fought long and hard to help to give us protection. But has it all sort of, well, backfired?

True, we see less of the hysteria including sensational press coverage of anyone who wares black and a pentacle and has tattoo being labelled a ‘Devil Worshipper’. In fact the media seems to be leaving us alone , even giving us positive coverage! Result! (Even if it’s possibly more about now having the aforementioned legal right, than a sudden sense of goodwill!). My Concern is about the possible dumbing down of our faith. I’m worried not just about my own pagan path, but all paths.

You see all those books – and lets be honest, the majority are crass, blatant rip offs of the ‘lets cash in quick’ type, which are being used by people to teach themselves (and others) the ‘correct way’ or what purports to be the real deal.

Fine, Okay. I know that any faith needs to meet the needs of the people as and when those needs change and evolve – or it becomes distant and slowly dies, so I am not protesting (too much) about knowledge being, er, interpretive. We’ve all probably read a score of naff American imports which all seem to say the same thing over and over again with out any true spiritual input.

These book are aimed at the fluffy bunny pagan you can say that it harmless to see a teenage girl reading “Teenage Girlie Witch spell craft book vol 3” – but I say it’s a waste of potential, Kids reading sugary so called spell books will try the spells contained with in find out they don’t work will lose heart and quit.

But what if said teenager found an honest, open account of what paganism actually is, the ethics, values and morals? What if they were then inspired to explore paganism, even attend a moot and speak with like-minded people?

This raises another question, fine, society is now more aware of pagans and the reality of who we are and the things we actually do –but at what cost? Altering rituals to be more acceptable to non-pagan audiences, the ‘softening’ of rites to be more conductive to interfaith movement, the merging of paths to mix elements of both into something that ends up being neither. These in my option are a problem.

Could it be argued that legal acceptance of paganism and it’s apparent need to become seen as safe and approachable is in fact sowing the seeds of destruction.

The earliest Christian missionaries here in Briton reported back the native populations spiritual beliefs and practices, the early church then slowly integrated Christian beliefs and practises alongside – and then slowly dropped the native stuff. The ancients were absorbed. My fear is that recent, apparent, acceptance is the beginning of a similar process – albeit one that may take decades or longer.

Occult means ‘hidden’ and I feel that we, as pagans, would do well to remember our history and ensure our rituals, rites and practices are kept safe and hidden from the fluffy bunnies and the more commercially – driven folk. If an individual is called to the ancient ways then they will find their way to a teacher eventually, regardless of how they start their journey.

I’m aware that there is no one answers to the questions raised here and I must admit that I have not only been tempted by and bought fluffy bunny pagan stuff in mail order catalogues myself! However we owe it to our faith to strive to keep our inner practices ‘occult’ as only in that way can we ensure they survive for the next generation.

Biarki.

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So let start this blog off on a good and interesting footing.

Witches have not always received good press and even today the medias portray witches as hags, super powered women or loony old bats dancing naked in the moon. Many [wikipedia]pagans [/wikipedia] get irate when they see these images and see them as a personal attack on themselves and forget to see them as just a bit of entertainment. Not one of the shows / documentaries I have every seen has ever made me feel like what I believe in is wrong in most cases I really enjoy them.

I do have one pet peeve and that is documentaries if I happen to be watching them with non-pagan friends as I feel that I have to apologise and have to explain what the editing has left out.

But things like [wikipedia]Charmed [/wikipedia], [wikipedia] Eastwick [/wikipedia] and the [wikipedia]Wizard of Oz [/wikipedia] etc in fact I often find them sources of inspiration for [wikipedia]spell [/wikipedia] or [wikipedia]ritual. [/wikipedia]

So let look at the media view and how I see it:-

The hag witch like [wikipedia]grotbags [/wikipedia], the [wikipedia]wicked witch of the west [/wikipedia], [wikipedia]witchiepoo [/wikipedia] which when we look truly at the aspect of the goddess as the [wikipedia]crone [/wikipedia] haggard by age out cast wise and cruel very much like the hag witches on TV,

The supper power uber witch like willow, the charmed sisters, [wikipedia]Samantha Stevens [/wikipedia] look closely and you will see the mother aspect in each of the caring, protective, loving and deadly when crossed the [wikipedia]mother goddess [/wikipedia] is a super power the life bringer the protect.

And finally those moon dancing loony ladies yes we all have seen them and cringed often thinking does the fire make my ass look that big, but we fail to see maiden aspect in these loony Luna ladies you see them on those cheap documentaries babbling rubbish getting it all wrong having fun and learning Just like a [wikipedia]maiden goddess [/wikipedia].

I remember that Janet and [wikipedia]Stewart Farrar [/wikipedia] said that the divine form was like a diamond with many faces and if you only ever looked at one part of it you would miss the true beauty of the divine. I have also learned that the goddess and god can be seen in everything.

There buy drugs online are many things in this life that are worth getting upsetting over and with deeper understanding you will find that every action has a purpose, a reason and the correct outcome.

So the next time you see a witch on TV see if you can find the goddess that will inspire a person to seek her out.

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