Author: Nathara
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Black Widow at Moon Dark
So, just a couple days ago, on the night of the new moon, I felt like I needed to reconnect. That I’d grown far from my gods and from my magick and I wanted to bridge the gap that had formed. But I didn’t feel like doing a full ritual, so I settled for a…
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Why Your Brain Loves to Dance
As you know, I’m a huge dance fan. I love dancing and it’s place in Earth and Ritual Magick is long historied, from drum circles and dances, to marriage ceremonies, to ecstatic dance in churches across the nation. It’s hard for us to resist a beat – I know if I’m out and about and…
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Simple Shielding 2.0
Way back in Psychic Defenses we learned how to create a simple shield of white light surrounding us. Did you know you can customize and “upgrade” your shield with all sorts of functions? For example, when I was younger I was painfully shy and I didn’t want to be noticed at all, so I created a…
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The Eightfold Path in Energy/Spell Work
This is a video where I discuss the Buddhist Eightfold Path (one of the Four Noble Truths) as it relates to energy/spell work. Enjoy! httpv://youtu.be/m8IWPVO1Lco
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A Herbal Holiday Resource
Oooooh, lookie! A friend just posted up this resource over on the Facebook and I’m passing it along to you. Personally, I’m eyeballing the chai and sugarplums and the incense paper. If you try any of these out, let us know!
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The Stormy Side of Life
Things don’t always go perfectly. They don’t always go according to plan. In fact, I used to have rules against plans because it seemed that just having them prevented them from ever happening! Somtimes our lives can be REALLY stormy. You may have see those list of ‘ascension symptoms’ going around on the internet… let…
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TEDTalk: Vultures
Learn about the role of the Vulture in the ecology of our world and how endangered this precious animal is.
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Why to Cast What Circle
This is a very brief discussion of the different types of circles that people cast and why you would use each one of them.
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Exploring Spirituality
In my post on Pagan Embarrassment, I refer to blog posts by Drew Jacobs and John Halstead. And WOW! Have their posts sparked a lot of responses, of which mine was just one of many. John Halstead has collected a number of them in his post The Many Shades of Pagan Embarrassment, which I’m still…
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Review: The Awakened Aura by Kala Ambrose
I received this book to review back at the beginning of the year and, yes, it has taken me most of the year to get through it. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad book, though – to the contrary, it means that there’s a lot of stuff in here that is really important! For me,…
