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/brujeria http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/brujeria#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:59:26 +0000 guest http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/?p=2142 Brujeria. For many, it is nothing more than the Spanish word for witchcraft. But for a growing number of North Americans, Brujeria is something much more complex–it is a religion, not unlike Wicca. I would like to volunteer to contribute some articles to the archive on this Pagan path. Myself, I am what is known as the Roja, or Red Priestess, of a temple here in Philadelphia. One does not need to be of Hispanic/Latin descent to celebrate Brujeria–I am not. As a sample, allow me to offer you what is known as the Rule of the Brujo. Much of Brujeria is done in Spanish or in the native language of Nahuatl, but much is being brought into English. “The one who made the Rule known is not known, but from this person the Rule spread unto the Olmecs, unto the Toltecs, unto the Aztecs, and ultimately the Rule has come down to us. That there is one piece of the rule for every full moon in the solar year is a certainty. The universe is a living thing (which is an idea brought into modern Brujeria from Aztec cosmology), and Brujeria is a method of interacting with the living energy of the universe. A brujo/bruja practices what could be termed magic by attuning himself/herself to this living energy. This living energy can seize a brujo/bruja at any time, or through the concentrated work of an impromptu and inspired ritual. An individual enters Brujeria through a personal encounter with the living energy. Once a brujo,]]> http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/brujeria/feed 0