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ISBN: 0738703192 Paperback Author: Silver Ravenwolf Silver Ravenwolf is the author of the best-selling Teen Witch and in keeping with the practice what you preach maxim is also the proud mother of four teen Witches. Solitary Witch is a jam-packed learning and resource guide for all serious young Witches, and Ravenwolf’s writing style uses modern [...]

ISBN: 0062516329 Paperback The Spiral Dance provides a brilliant overview of the growth of modern-day Wicca, as a reemergence of a Goddess-worshipping religion. Many people consider that this book has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness, and has been an immeasurable influence on the neopagan movement. Starhawk’s 20th-anniversary edition explores how the [...]

Have you ever wondered what the purpose is the purpose of astral projection, and who so many people, from different spiritual and religious backgrounds, seek to learn how to project? In this article I cover the basic facts that you must know before you project. Astral projection is the term used for various processes that [...]

Past life regression is a popular occult technique that uses meditation or hypnosis to recover memories of past lives or incarnations. There are many stories to reinforce the theories of reincarnation and past life memories, including some modern scientific evidence. Therefore, many occultists believe that we lived earlier lives, perhaps many of them. There are [...]

In occultism, a lucid dream is a dream where the person knows that they are dreaming and can then try to control things in the dream. This is a stage beyond a dream being merely vivid. In a lucid dream, it is possible to do anything the dreamer desires, with a popular experience being flying. [...]

Astral projection, also known as astral travel, is a popular technique for out-of-body experiences. For some people astral projection is spontaneous, however it may also be practiced intentionally. While it is possible to have an experience where you are ‘really there’ (and can sense, feel, and see your body) it is just as common for [...]

In Magick the process of transforming INRI into LVX is very important. Magick is the ability to manipulate and control the Astral Light to affect change in accordance with Will. The INRI to LVX formula describes the process of the elements, arising from spirit, and via a purification process, being brought into harmony to once [...]

The pentagram is one symbol heavily associated with magick and wicca. It is a very ancient symbol with the first known drawings of a pentagram dating from 3500BC at Ur in Ancient Mesopotamia. The Hebrew people considered it to be a symbol for the truth and representative of the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of [...]

The use of elemental pentagrams in ritual works on the three laws of suggestion, sympathy, and analogy. When inscribing an elemental pentagram in a particular manner within a ritual or ceremony, the magickian is invoking, within her mind, a formula that draws on the relationships and correspondences between the magickal elements. The various elemental pentagrams [...]

The Prima Materia or First Matter, called Hyle by the Greeks, is the astral light. It is from the Prima Materia that the four alchemical elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water) are divided. This first matter has been described in various ways. It has been described as water, but not in the sense of the [...]