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BLESSINGS FOR A TRANSFORMATIONAL SAMHAIN
by guest contributor: Alison Skelton This is a time of thresholds; we move from light to shadow, looking through the veil of illusion that separates this world and the next. At Samhain we begin the...
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The Human Family at the Tree of Life
by guest contributor: Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju Figures evocative of the human family seated at the base of the Tree of Life as the baobab is known in South Africa evokes the unhuman vitality of the...
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The Pendle Witches
written by guest contributor: Verna Sorrentino Graham Demaline, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons In the late Middle Ages, witch-hunting fever swept...
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Do you believe in magic?
Oink, They Shall Behold Thine Eyes, Leonora Carrington 1959 First, in order to answer that question, one would need to define what magic is… We, broadly speaking, define magic in two ways; two almost...
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Polarities: Our Experience of the Divine
Dion Fortune’s Applied Magic I am preparing to do a podcast episode on Dion Fortune’s Applied Magic as part of the She Speaks Volumes series on the feminist voice in witchcraft. I first read Applied...
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The Practice of Magic
Dion Fortune’s Applied Magic #2 “My experience with many esoteric scientists is this – they make a sort of intellectual study of it, but they do not apply it to practical problems.” Dion Fortune –...
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Dion Fortune on Group Mind
Collective enchantments & reality selection Further readings in ‘Applied Magic’. Group-Mind is a concept that, as a primarily solitary-practitioner I have vastly under-explored. But I am intrigued...
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Winter Solstice- 2023
It is still dark now, I have the candles lit – awaiting the dawn. There won’t be much of a sunrise this morning as we are socked in with a thick heavy rain. I am not complaining, I love rain. We are...
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The Unknown, the Unmanifest, & the Nonexistent
Three categories of ‘reality’ in Dion Fortune’s Applied Magic. Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), pp. 163 I have been surprised through my re-reading of ‘Applied...
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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
The complex issue of colonial knowledge and culture. In our current social-media fuelled environment everything feels polarised; the medium itself seems to create binary thinking. I have been enjoying...
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